From email by a student

I find it most alarming that Malaysian schools teach their children the
> wrong things. I mean: can the children really apply what they are taught
> in school later in life? For example, can you imagine a mathematics
> question in a recent examination as follows?
>
> “If an egg costs fifty Sen, and if you buy one-eighth of the egg, how
> much would you have to pay?” Who in heaven’s name will want to buy
> one-eighth of an egg? The shopkeeper will probably think you are crazy
> and he will be equally stupid to break the egg and measure one-eighth
> for you. Yet, this is how they structure the questions in Malaysian
> schools. Why not pose questions that would be more useful later in life
> when you go out into the world to earn your living?
>
> To help Malaysia ’s Ministry of Education bet to face the realities of
> life, we are suggesting some questions they could use in our classrooms

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