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School History Textbooks - Historical Facts or Political and Religious Propaganda?
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"A Concerned Mother"
When one picks up a history book, one would expect to read a fair account of events as they actually happened in the past. Definitely, one would expect the most accurate record possible of history as it unfolded through the decades, written as objectively as possible.
A most reasonable expectation indeed when the book in question is a major textbook prescribed by our Education Ministry for our students nationwide.
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"...We want to know WHY our school curriculum has been allowed to be written from such a RELIGIOUS SLANT by a group of writers of only one religious background.
We want to know the reason for this sudden but quiet change in the school syllabus a few years ago.
We want to know WHY our children are COMPELLED to disproportionately focus and digest so much on ONE religion WITHOUT a balanced perspective of others?
We must demand for an immediate and urgent revamp and re-writing of the entire history curriculum for our schools and universities.
We must insist that POLITICS and RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION be strictly kept OUT of our textbooks.
We must no longer allow our school syllabus to be hijacked for political and religious propaganda.
Until then, it is unacceptable to even think that History should be made a compulsory pass subject in SPM.
- A Concerned Mother
School History Textbooks - Historical Facts or Political and Religious Propaganda?
by
"A Concerned Mother"
When one picks up a history book, one would expect to read a fair account of events as they actually happened in the past. Definitely, one would expect the most accurate record possible of history as it unfolded through the decades, written as objectively as possible.
A most reasonable expectation indeed when the book in question is a major textbook prescribed by our Education Ministry for our students nationwide.