On Children -friendly

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                                      On Children-friendly

          Hou----------bilibala------------hou, which medium of instruction is better, English or Chinese for Chinese primary schools?  The grown-ups always have a lot to haggle and fight over their ‘fuddy-duddy’ ideas over education.  Ask yourselves how much you know about education.  Ask yourselves how children-friendly the education you propose is. 

          The ones who favour coffee insist the beverage to be the most wonderful whereas the other ones who enjoy tea want to prove as much.  Well---------------- no force on the children, please.  Ask the children to decide:  they will tell you they like fruit juice best!  However, we can’t let them to have a particular fruit juice they are addicted though we can give a little more. 

          As good, kind, reasonable, progressive, understanding and children-friendly adults, we should provide the variety.  It is the variety that help them to get all the nutrients they need to stay in good health and enjoy a happy and healthy life.

          Now, for Chinese primary schools, do the survey and find out the truth and facts how well the children can understand and enjoy Mathematics and Science in English.  Now the question is if they have the English background to understand or not!  If they have only spoken dialects or Chinese since small, I advise you for the sake of the children’s benefits, not your adults’ ideal and ideas, to force them to learn Mathematics and Science in English.  Can you understand me??? 

          English is a very useful tool in the international scene.  We definitely need to master this language besides Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia if we want to win at ease in this global environment.  To master the language, we have to put in enough effort to learn.  Think of better ways to learn English during English periods.  Increasing English periods should be a way to force learning intensively.  Finding means and ways to encourage them read English books of different genres extensively, newspapers and magazines is definitely a must in order to acquire a rich stock of vocabulary and knowledge.  To use English freely, we need good foundation of the language, so good grasp of all the grammatical rules is essential.  But learning English is not learning the grammar alone.  We should allocate time for learning the grammar.  At the same time, we should read widely to amass English words and knowledge.  Our ability to listen, speak, read and write  English well depends on grammar, vocabulary, knowledge as well as experience. 

          To conclude my points of view, I would suggest that Chinese primary schools use CHINESE to teach Mathematics and Science.  If you see no harm trying, let the children have Mathematics and Science in both Chinese and English versions but insist to have them explained in CHINESE