Dr. Nik Roskiman bin Abdul Samad

Developing Thinking Minds

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…

Trivium : An Alternative Syllabus for Primary Education

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…