Last week we heard that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested thirty four people including a special officer and a private secretary to two politicians for bribery involving sand mining and smuggling activities. It is very unfortunate that corruption cases seem do not diminish in spite of various efforts taken by the government to…
Recently, at one of the conventions on good governance I attended in Kuching, there was a clarion call for the development of human capital and character building. Most presenters and participants agreed on the vital role of human factor as the prime and utmost important element in achieving good governance: a government which is efficient,…
Kita harus menerima hakikat bahawa walaupun agama Islam itu satu, namun tafsiran terhadap Islam itu berbeda-beda. Pemahaman dan seterusnya penafsiran terhadap sumber-sumber Islam yang asal iaitu al-Qur’an dan al-Sunnah adalah tidak sama di kalangan para imam dan para ulama mujtahid. Kerana itulah ianya membawa kepada wujudnya pelbagai aliran atau disebut juga mazhab dalam dunia Islam…
We often hear people say ‘money is not everything but everything needs money’. However, it is hard to deny that we are in a materialistic world. Naturally, in this type of the world, religion has almost no significant role to play in guiding our daily actions. It looks as if all religious or virtuous values…
It was with great relief that we heard the announcement made by our government to revamp our educational system for the better. We have discussed this issue before that our national education system should now start focusing more on producing ‘thinking’ students rather than ‘memorizers of data’. The move to reduce the number of subjects…
In my previous article in 29th of May issue of the Star, I mentioned that education is not concerned with the number of subjects taught in schools, but rather the process of nurturing a student to be a ‘good person’. A good person in the sense of one whose faculties have been developed during the…
We celebrated Teachers’ Day a few weeks ago. Talk of education always brings to my mind a speech given by Dorothy L.Sayers at Oxford in 1947, which was later printed in essay form bearing the title The Lost Tools of Learning. Although Sayers was not an educationist but rather a novelist, her profound critique of…
