I wholeheartedly agree with Education Minister Muhyiddin that we should reform education and have an exam free system to make Malaysians creative, innovative and successful.
It could also make our future citizens think freely and value freedom from fear, of expression and freedom to choose.
The trouble with our system is that all questions must have one answer only or no answer at all: the former is wrong but the latter is right because in essence, a stupid question has no answer, not even a stupid one. If there was only one answer in truth, we would all have fallen off from the flat world.
We all know that Malaysia is the center of the universe and that turtles in the world swim around our country. A few probably did not because they ended up in some cooking pots.
Then of course we have terrific memories. During the "Sultanate" of Malacca heydays we named our heroes not Mohd Tuah or Mohd Jebat or Mat Kasturi or Mat Nejad but all of them with the first name of Hang.
So, how come the Americans went to Mars and not South Pole and give the place it's Martian name. Before they did, they even got the place wrong. They thought that Mars was somewhere in the swamps or marshlands.
The only difference between us and the other countries is that they got right answers only after they got wrong ones.
What I would suggest is that the Education Ministry model, yes we need models, the curriculum along the imagination in the answers, not the questions, of the following samples from some singular exams from somewhere as follows:
CHILDREN'S SCIENCE EXAM ANSWERS
Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large
pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.
Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.
Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow.
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon,
And nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.
Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old,so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.
Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.
Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.
Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax, and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the Five bowels A, E, I, O, and U.
Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie
Q: What does 'varicose' mean?
A: Nearby.
Q: Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean Section.'
A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome .
Q: What does the word 'benign' mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight
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A predictable result of our system.
["...According to the MBPJ officer in charge, Mohd Faizal, it wasn't just about the absence of a permit.
"Previously, we issued summons to these vans for obstruction of traffic as they were parked haphazardly along the street," he explained.
"Then the vendors started parking their vehicles in proper parking spots but that is also illegal because those bays are for public use....."
] - F M T
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