TEACHERS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN SHAPING FUTURE GENERATION

How the future generation turns out depends very much on how they are taught by teachers in school today.
This is because teachers play important role as a change agent in the lives of the future generation. Teachers’ role as agent of change is very important as the country moves towards its many objectives in this era of globalization, liberalization, and information technology.
“Therefore, teachers’ contribution in educating and shaping our children’s life and the future of our generation is very significant, making Teacher’s Day celebration something very important.” The function of teachers was not only to educate children, but also to ensure that those they taught grew with all the positive values. The must ensure that their students had good self-disciplines, high self-confidence, good moral values and were also competitive so that they could penetrate other countries with their skills.


Source: Sunday post 28 jun 2009

EDUCATION PLAYS IMPORTANT PART OF NATIONAL MISSION

“Education will continue to be an important part or the national mission and its objectives”, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He said, even the new economic model which the government planned to introduce would not be possible to be attained until and unless the country was able to produce the right kind and quality people, which had very much to do with education and the values it brought.
“Education is not about producing academics person, it is about a person is educated in his hearts and minds. That is the true purpose of education”, he said.
The Prime minister said that apart from education curriculum, another strong influence on students was the ethos of schools, and all the values it is imparted would shape the belief and attitude of the students.
“For that mission, the missions’ school has been recognized as school with special ethos. Which is in consonance with my desire of a truly 1 Malaysia,” said Najib. Najib said that part and parcel of the 1 Malaysia concept would include the basic premise, that all Malaysians should accept wholeheartedly the diversity of this country as their strength, and not as source of problem.
“1 Malaysia calls going beyond the concept of tolerance… instead, it calls to migrate to a mindset of accepting in total, the diversity which exists in our society,” he said.
I call all Malaysian to transform because this journey is about transforming on mindset, not distinguishing so much in terms of ethnic and religion differences but instead, what we can contribute to this nation,” he said.

Source: Sunday post 28 jun 2009