What’s going on in schools?
Posted by DAVID BC TAN under: Malaysian schools on 18 May 2006.
C.S. Lewis was an unhappy victim of public schools and he said so in his autobiography Surprised By Joy.
“If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons’ schools, the history of education would be very different.”
You can see I am a pessimist by inclination. Unlike my friend – let’s call him Bob – who thinks one can’t possibly maintain sanity in Malaysia without a modicum of hopeful thinking. It’s easy to walk away, he says, but you can still make a difference if you work at it, try hard enough, push the envelope. I have had dreams too, if not for present realities that have all but convinced me that one ought to work towards change. So I’ll be working harder on alternatives, away from the present oppressive system. It’s one of the primary reasons I homeschool.
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