The priority of the foundation

I came from a middle-income family whom my parents earned very little amount of salary to satisfy every members in the family. All of my siblings were given equal opportunity to further studies and developed their skills. Thanks to Allah through my parents, the spiritual education has always been their priority of all education.

One day when I was in form 4, my father went home from the workplace with his feet wounded. That's the turn-point of our live as far as we concern. He had to stay in hospital for a few months and had to undergo a surgical operation in government hospital since nobody in the family could send him to private hospital. He can't walk very well since that then and we had to depend on y mother through her work as rubber-tapper as well as cleaner.

Every single day, I could see that my mother had to work and manage the family matters with the support from my grandparents. She easily cried especially at night since my elder brother was in university at that time. My older sister and my eldest brother couldn't help much since both of them stayed 300km away from our house. Other than my older brother, my mother had to take care of education for both of my younger sisters as well as myself. We could be categorized as poor family at that time but none of my siblings got the scholarship from our schools or any of government agencies even though all of us did very well during our studies thanks to birocracy and political intervention from other parties.

I was very sad at that time since my parents couldn't afford to send me to tuition classes just like my friends in my class. My parents couldn't even afford to buy me a dictionary and exercise books. I even sometimes turned myself down of my faith for success since we have to pay for fundamental education every now and then. My only ambition at that time was very simple that I would only want to obtain my SPM with or without flying colour result. Come to think about it, my parents won't allow such of the nonsense idea that I had in my mind. I was very sad at that time since most of my teachers back in my primary school saw my potential of being succesful one day.

Just after my SPM examination, i asked permission from my parents to allow me to look for job in Kuala Lumpur. I just wanted to start my career since I didn't care about my tertiary education at that time. For me the most important is to replace my mother as the backbone of the family. I just want to ensure that my elder brother in university and my two younger sisters did well in their studies. It was a sacrifice that I had to obtain to ensure that all my family members lived in well life.

I don't want to write further about the rest of the stories, just in short, I went to university because of my parents will after that. What I want to address here is that the foundation of education in Malaysia is not well managed or provided. For years, the government has failed to deliver their good job when we talk about the fundamentals of education for school children. I do not know how many potential children that have to sacrifice their education for the sake of taking care of family financial.

When I was in university, my lecturer used to tease and humiliate me for my poor performance in Maths, yes I didn't do well in Math very much that day even though that I was Maths Club President in my primary school. I didn't do well in Maths because of things suddenly changed that brings a very deep impact towards my family financial during my studies in secondary school. The fundamental of Maths in universities is during your secondary school days. If you didn't do well during secondary how are you going to do well in your tertiary education?

Malaysian government spend so much on building wasted projects that benefit less to the people. Don't even have to mention on how poorly the spending is being done, you would know the truth by looking at the unjustifiable amount of money spent. I used to have friends who did very well during their primary education but didn't during secondary. This due to the lack of financial support from the parents. We have to accept the fact that nowadays we have to send our children to tuition classes since the goal of parents are to ensure that they do well in examinations. It's totally unfair to those villagers whom their parents' education background can be considered low compare to those who live in cities.

Come to think about it, i would say that the government did nothing but to address their responsibility. That's it, just responsibilities. Instead, they suppose to come with fresh ideas that may help the children from village especially those in primary and secondary school to obtain their education so that the level of knowledge is parallel with the children in cities. Sometimes, I just hoping that if we could sent the politicians' children to village so that they would know the reality that Malaysians in villages are facing.

~this post is partially completed and will be amended in the near future~