The education minister said this is to increase the awareness of nation building efforts and therefore producing younger generations who are more patriotic. This is a load of craps.
The real reason is to brain wash the youth into believing that Malaysia is built by a single race, the contributions of other races towards building our nation will be denied by replacing facts with lies in history text books. Recently there were many instances where some politicians publicly denying the existence of famous historical Chinese leaders who helped to develop our country, for example Yap Ah Loy. Now they want to go one step further, they want our children to memorize these lies as facts. Or else they will flop their whole examination, not only failing a subject only. Do you see the power of this move?
It is sad that certain Chinese scholars are also involved in this falsifying of history for personal gains and glory. Their names will go down in history as betrayers of their own ethnic group.
Does the education minister realize that not every child love history, regardless of their intelligent levels.Those who excel in science or engineering subjects may not like to memorize dates,names,places and events. They like to memorize formula or theorem instead. Likewise, even some arts stream students also do not like history. Are we going to shut the doors of the universities to these intelligent students? How are we going to achieve our vision of a developed nation in 2020 without the help of these potential technocrats?
