i-Think. u-Think.

I always believe that knowledge is a life-long learning process. No stopping in acquiring knowledge even if one has a PHd.Throughout the course of life, we'll still be learning. There are just infinite number of things we can learn and will learn in our lives. That's just how God created it. And that's how we survive the challenges ahead... However, I felt the Malaysian education system does not prepare the children towards building a THINKING society. Someone who is able to think out of the box ie. why 2+2=4 and not 5 or 6. Or why the glass is half empty instead of half filled. Or why cant we argue what's right or wrong or better ways to do things today with the elders or the authorities. Why can't we just do it first and see if it's working before we say it cant be done. At least we have tried. Unfortunately, it's always "take it or leave it". Period! There's no two ways about it. The education system wasn't built to encourage thinking students. It wasn't meant to propagate students to spell out their minds and argue based on research and facts. It wasn't meant to create a future generation to think "Well... that's good. But I think there's a better way to get it done. Shall we explore it?". Never! Calls for the improvement and change for a better education system has always fall to deaf ears amongst the power that be in the country. Somehow, they heard it but never listen to it. Talk is cheap. Any Tom, Dick and Harry can say "We heard you." and that's it! No one is brave enough or has the balls in the administration to carry the proposed arguments and challenge the authorities to at least look into it and seriously take some immediate actions to get it moving. Ziltch!

Today, it took another Prime Minister of the country to make a call to work on a new education system that will create students who has inquisitive minds instead of merely learning and absorbing information. God gracious! Why has it taken so long? Thank you Mr. Prime Minister for having the guts to propose this beyond the political boundaries of the education system that we are so used to. Read here I don't know the details of the i-Think program just yet. But I wanna be optimistic about the future of the program and the future of our children. Hopefully, the i-Think program will meet its holistic objective of transforming the education system to churn out "thinking students" and able to adapt to life's challenges. Innovative, analytical, adaptable, new ideas and problem solving are key to the success of this program and the creation of "thinking students". Change whatever you need to change to make it work Mr. Prime Minister. Be it the teaching or learning methods, the administrators or even the teachers. Just do it! Impossible is nothing! The "ultra groups of people" will make noise. Let them be. Do away with the archaic 3M system. It ain't working no more! We must move forward. Moving forward we must begin our journey from the grassroots. And it's the education system of the children. Its not about how you drive, its about how you arrive. Insyaallah...