What is wrong with the current education system?

Nowadays, education reformation has become one of the important components in the national
policy development especially for the long run planning in a country. Such adjustment is
necessary to be emphasized and actively implemented especially to suit the aspiration of the
nation especially in realizing a new working structure in the country and to meet the future
challenge globally. Education reformation between countries may be different due to the
characteristics of the nation, political and socio-economic establishment within one state.
In the case of Malaysia, the educational system is designed in a sense to create a united,
democratic, just, liberal and progressive society. The reinvention of curriculum is designed to
ensure that the national policy and education philosophy will always be preserved. Hence, any
kind of proposals on reforming education system has to be justifiable within the scope of the
main vision of the country; in another word, the national policy. In Malaysia, the nation is multi
ethnic; therefore, any recommendation is carefully studied just to ensure that major satisfaction
among races is achieved and this is definitely not an easy task. One way to collaborate is to
proceed along the line with the vision of the country that has already been accepted by the whole
nation.
While some scholars or officers would say that this statement is a fallacy itself, I beg to differ.
Yes, I do agree that our education system was created in line with United Nations Millennium
Development Goals, Rukun Negara, etc. and all other policies.
But for me, there is a problem with our education system especially on how much do we
emphasize on the students ambitions? While some may refute and say that teachers in school
motivate students to have ambition, again I agree ONLY partially. Dont we understand the
meaning of ambition and the effort we put it as we work to achieve our ambition?
Some examples of ambition and motivation in practice:
1. Skip the class and not go to school just to go and play pool or play games in the cyber
cafe.
2. Run on sports day to get the gold medal.
3. Keep on messaging a girl to flirt her.
All the examples above are simple scenario faced by Malaysian students. But please take into
consideration that all these are based on objectivity, to get something out of it, they put in
their effort wholeheartedly.


Nowadays, everything is based on A. Get lots of As and you can get a good place in
university. In the end we university students watch helplessly as our peers complain that they do
not like their courses, they wish they have never taken this bachelor degree, this is not they are
cut out for, they dont like medic, etc.
But shouldnt we take examples of students who strive to be doctors because they are inspired by
their parents/relatives and because of their objective in becoming one, they could learn
wholeheartedly and contribute to the nation because of understanding their profession?
To prove my point although it is based on value judgment, try and ask any students in our public
universities and ask whether they still remember what they learnt during the previous semester
and what use was it to them. They will tell you that they just get an A and leave the subject as
it is.
Many will do the following:
Sell their textbooks to juniors (oh yes, we dont need to refer to all the books we bought,
we get A, we have everything in our head)
Cherish the academic transcript rather than the acquired knowledge
Then what is the meaning of devising a degree when we do not put good use to what we have
learnt?
That would be a worms eye view of why we have unemployed graduates which do not fulfill the
capability of the industry: lack of ambition / ambition of just getting A -> failure to learn and
apply knowledge -> cant solve problems of the industry.
That is what the problem on our education system. Actually there is more problem about it, but I
am more focused on the emphasize on the students ambitions. Our government must reforming
back the system so that at least several problems can be solved.