Love, happiness and respect must be incorporated into education system, says Maszlee

Christopher Rabin Christopher Rabin Updated 7 years ago · Published on 22 Oct 2018 8:38PM · 4 Comments

Education Minister Maszlee Malik says foreign students should experience everything Malaysia has to offer. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, October 22, 2018.

LOVE, happiness and mutual respect are three core values the Education Ministry wants to integrate into the national education system.

Its minister, Maszlee Malik, also said it was important to remove ignorance among students in incorporating these values.

“We must remove ignorance as it opens the door to prejudice, which is the perfect recipe for conflict.

“We will integrate this through major values in our education – love, happiness and mutual respect,” he said while addressing foreign students during a meet-and-greet session at the ministry in Putrajaya today.

He added that the space to create an environment of mutual understanding was important as “we happen to be living in a cultural pot of diversity”.

“Most education systems do not focus on this but we need to appeal to everyone that education is to convey peace,” he added.

Earlier, he told foreign students from 29 countries studying in seven public and 20 private local universities in Malaysia that they should experience the best the country had to offer while they were here.

He encouraged them to leap out of their comfort zones and stay with Malaysian foster families to be exposed to a greater cultural experience.

“I have told them to get a foster family in Malaysia, to ensure their stay here transcends into something meaningful in their lives,” he said. – October 22, 2018.

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  • MOST IMPORTANT IS FLUENCY & PROFICIENCY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LIKE IT WAS AT THE TIME OF MERDEKA IN 1957..

    Posted 7 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

    • Respect & many other benefits automatically come with learning in English! I speak from experience!..

      Posted 7 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

    • Malaysians, and Malays especially, went downhill in education and learning after English was downgraded by the misguided and shortsighted Umno-BN govt. Malaysians will never be the same again for maybe forever! They destroyed a valuable economic commodity which would have put Malaysia at the forefront of today's world..

      Posted 7 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

  • This is so superficial... by the time the values reach the schools, it will be in posters, banners and ultimately will mean nothing.
    Maszlee should come up with more concrete plans moving ahead.. he seems to be introducing initiatives that will not or wont have a strong bearing on the education system.

    Posted 7 years ago by TTs Take · Reply