onEducation Minister Dr Maszlee Malik has expressed his readiness to consider the need to introduce other styles of calligraphy apart from khat or jawi writing in the school curriculum. ― Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
“It is interesting to discuss the issue considering that our art education emphasise artistic elements from various ethnic groups in Malaysia,” he told reporters after attending the Prime Minister’s Cup Debate Competition 2019 finals at the Putra World Trade Centre , here today. Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad welcomed the introduction of khat and described the objections came from a small part of the community.
This 2019 yo.. in 6 months it's 2020 blurred Vision what happened to that promise!? Give kids coding skills and prepare for the future. Calligraphy useful only for making Hari Raya Angpow.
Just wondering if he can come out with very progressive ideas how to move our nation forward and compete with others by raising the standard of our education quality from primary schools to universities
the young Arabs now are learning how to code e.g. but joker maszlee wants your offsprings to learn their obsolete Arabic scripts instead.
If you are a pair of slippers, I would wear you cuz you are flip flops. Is the govt aware of the many misfirings they are conjuring?
How about something that is ACTUALLY useful?
maszlee Please don’t do it. No one is asking for it. Introduce programs that are useful to the students when they join the job market. I’m not interested in employing candidates who knows calligraphy but nuts about IT.
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