Having spent 11 years being educated in national schools before heading to the United States to pursue my education in English, I strongly disagree with the reintroduction of English-medium schools in Malaysia. Our national schools provide sufficient language skills to graduate from the best institutions in America, so why the sudden jolt? If only our young Malaysians could speak English like the English, we would have a better future, they argued. A third to a half of American college graduates are underemployed and many cannot even write in English despite their ability to speak English. Few nationalities have studied in English-medium schools, unlike the Indians and Filipinos who did so because of their British and American colonial masters.

Source: The Star December 11, 2017 00:45 UTC