Bavani vs Sh. Zohra Jabeen
For passionate Bhavani... This one is my opinion for you...
Your question: Why can they ( Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba) afford to offer free education and not us in Malaysia?
... My opinion is yes we can offer free education but sacrifices must be made. Are we willing?
Lets pick Cuba as an example as its the best of all 3 example you provide. Cuba have high standard education and literacy in the country, how do they do it?
- 10% of country budget to pay for free education
- volunteer mobilised teacher, cikgu kerja for free
- under paid teacher who have to do part time work like driving taxi etc to keep enough living
Cuba's situation
A youngster sees that his dad is a doctor, his mum is a teacher, his uncle an engineer, and yet the family cannot afford a TV or nice clothes.
The students don't have enough exposure and practical experience to turn the country around.
What is Cuba's education investment for if Cuba will remain poor? What's the point? Just for the sake to have high literacy and country full of graduates but at what cost?
Now look at Msia
Our aim is for prudent spending to optimise result. I believe this is smarter.
- we got almost half of social service budget for education, the highest allocation! Of which 15% goes to Ministry of Education whose aim is to get as much back in return of this investment.
Dengan kata lain, graduate ramai, but takat lulus dpt ijazah tapi tak guna ilmu dan kepandaian untuk sumbang kat negara secara optimal. Good but not good enough....no point then.
So the high budget will be invested to train teachers, bring back talents from abroad to help inject some exposure to local Uni, and to improve all aspect of education so that we get not only text book smart students, we get real smarts students.
Of course Malaysian facilities is high standard and cost a lot to maintain and to further developed.
If we offer free education now what will happen in the nearest future?
- not enough local U, sumbat as many students as we can, and hope for the best?!
- to find funding to expand Uni, we need to spend less on future development in education areas.
-to make sure that this program is free for now and sustainable in the future we need to spend less else where (subsidy cuts, salary cuts, tax more etc) or borrow more.
- sacrifice sending students abroad but this is a shame really because Malaysia is a young country and do not have enough reading culture so we will not be exposed enough to compete at world standard unless we are willing to invest in the teachers... But I don't think we have the money for it... Camne tu?
In comparison.....
Ok now compare to UK, US and majority other country, where education is highly sought after, not free and it's return on investment making their citizen living comfortably.
Bhavanni where do you get the numbers from, I'm curious. How do you know 10b is enough? Have you factor in the ever growing population size and increasing inflation and other economic cycle as to how we can continue to provide free education if we need to ride on recession.
Anyways, if you truly want free education like Cuba then make that sacrifice like the Cuban. Lower other expectation and then offer free education.
In the words of a Cuban...
"Cubans not wasting money on say a $600 i-phone that really doesn't do anything for them. (It is just a Status-symbol to other places.) "
"A Cuban grandmother prefers to wash clothes by hand in her bathroom because she like to use her strong hands, water n electricity of machine cost too much"
So......If we can live like Cuban then by all means go for it!
Budget is like your take home pay, spend more on holiday, cut down your shopping, or continue shopping on your credit card with high interest.
It's just basic allocation.... The real question is what are you willing to sacrifice?
-fida.i-
January 15,2013
For passionate Bhavani... This one is my opinion for you...
Your question: Why can they ( Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba) afford to offer free education and not us in Malaysia?
... My opinion is yes we can offer free education but sacrifices must be made. Are we willing?
Lets pick Cuba as an example as its the best of all 3 example you provide. Cuba have high standard education and literacy in the country, how do they do it?
- 10% of country budget to pay for free education
- volunteer mobilised teacher, cikgu kerja for free
- under paid teacher who have to do part time work like driving taxi etc to keep enough living
Cuba's situation
A youngster sees that his dad is a doctor, his mum is a teacher, his uncle an engineer, and yet the family cannot afford a TV or nice clothes.
The students don't have enough exposure and practical experience to turn the country around.
What is Cuba's education investment for if Cuba will remain poor? What's the point? Just for the sake to have high literacy and country full of graduates but at what cost?
Now look at Msia
Our aim is for prudent spending to optimise result. I believe this is smarter.
- we got almost half of social service budget for education, the highest allocation! Of which 15% goes to Ministry of Education whose aim is to get as much back in return of this investment.
Dengan kata lain, graduate ramai, but takat lulus dpt ijazah tapi tak guna ilmu dan kepandaian untuk sumbang kat negara secara optimal. Good but not good enough....no point then.
So the high budget will be invested to train teachers, bring back talents from abroad to help inject some exposure to local Uni, and to improve all aspect of education so that we get not only text book smart students, we get real smarts students.
Of course Malaysian facilities is high standard and cost a lot to maintain and to further developed.
If we offer free education now what will happen in the nearest future?
- not enough local U, sumbat as many students as we can, and hope for the best?!
- to find funding to expand Uni, we need to spend less on future development in education areas.
-to make sure that this program is free for now and sustainable in the future we need to spend less else where (subsidy cuts, salary cuts, tax more etc) or borrow more.
- sacrifice sending students abroad but this is a shame really because Malaysia is a young country and do not have enough reading culture so we will not be exposed enough to compete at world standard unless we are willing to invest in the teachers... But I don't think we have the money for it... Camne tu?
In comparison.....
Ok now compare to UK, US and majority other country, where education is highly sought after, not free and it's return on investment making their citizen living comfortably.
Bhavanni where do you get the numbers from, I'm curious. How do you know 10b is enough? Have you factor in the ever growing population size and increasing inflation and other economic cycle as to how we can continue to provide free education if we need to ride on recession.
Anyways, if you truly want free education like Cuba then make that sacrifice like the Cuban. Lower other expectation and then offer free education.
In the words of a Cuban...
"Cubans not wasting money on say a $600 i-phone that really doesn't do anything for them. (It is just a Status-symbol to other places.) "
"A Cuban grandmother prefers to wash clothes by hand in her bathroom because she like to use her strong hands, water n electricity of machine cost too much"
So......If we can live like Cuban then by all means go for it!
Budget is like your take home pay, spend more on holiday, cut down your shopping, or continue shopping on your credit card with high interest.
It's just basic allocation.... The real question is what are you willing to sacrifice?
-fida.i-
January 15,2013
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