This goes without saying, or is it not?

I almost fell of my chair reading the encouragement of the MCA President, a member of the cabinet of Malaysia's government to the educators in Malaysia. Seek more knowledge, educators told!

In one way or rather, what this chap is saying that our Malaysian academician have really gone down to the drain, all loads of them, from the Vice-Cansellors running the universities, professors, as well as the teachers in all schools in Malaysia.

What is meant by this? 'Scholars should not wait for political masters, corporate leaders or some other patrons to guide them towards excellence'? This is the real reflection of the situation in most education institutions in Malaysia, full with academicians who are mere 'obedient' subjects of the political masters of the day. The masters wishes will be their commands!

Get your honour back, academicians, especially those guys at Universiti Putra Malaysia, namely the Department of Aerospace Engineering, of the Engineering Faculty. Pathetic academicians! Well, not all of them......

The Star Online > Nation

Monday June 13, 2005

Seek more knowledge, educators told

KUALA LUMPUR: Scholars and educators should spur themselves on to seek more knowledge to improve themselves.

MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said they should not only continue pursuing their own specialised field but other areas of knowledge as well.

“Scholars should not wait for political masters, corporate leaders or some other patrons to guide them towards excellence.

FASCINATED: Ong playing the angklung to mark the programme launch yesterday. Behind him are the institute advisor Datuk Teng Gaik Kwan, Women, Family and Community Development Ministry parliamentary secretary Chew Mei Fun, Datin Seri Wendy Ong and the institute's chairman Datuk Yu Chok Tow.

“Instead, they should pick up the momentum themselves in the quest for greater knowledge,” Ong said at the launching of Institute CECE Malaysia’s Lifelong Learning Series on the Alphabet programme yesterday.

Such a series, Ong said, should be extended to reach out to more educators at the community level.

“We also hope to instil lifelong learning in ordinary citizens as well as their children, and this can be done through local educators,” he said.

“Through the lifelong learning process, we hope that all of us will know how to live properly, happily, healthily, successfully and meaningfully,” he said.

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