MPs & Excos - Go buy a Degree

Mentri Besar Mohd Tajol Rosli Ghazali said he will force his State Exco members to get a degree.

"Without a degree, it will be very difficult for them in politics."

"It is not a question of merely serving the people anymore. Those days are gone."

"If these assemblymen want to be somebody in politics one day and be appointed an executive council member or become a member of parliament, they have to further their studies."

At a certain point, I do agree with Tajol Rosli. Lack of educational qualification is a disadvantage and often can be equated to lack of knowledge and competencies. Knowledge of philosophy, psychology and sociology, including political science and jurisprudence, are a necessary elements for good management and governing. Parliamentarians and State Assemblymen are law-makers, and they have a fiduciary duty to perform, to serve the people, the society and the whole spectrum of the community they represent. At such, lacking in theories and applications of the knowledge areas can be detrimental and often led to discriminative thoughts and myopic discernments, leading to racial and religious segmentation and disintegration.

However, having a degree means nothing if the knowledge is not inculcated and ingrained within the thoughts spectrum. Far worse is the fact that we can "PURCHASE or NEGOTIATE" a degree quite easily in Malaysia. If you can research and observe our Malaysian universities, you may realize that the system is made to generate and mass produce graduates without the basic and fundamental knowledge. The universities basically rush out the production line, passing everyone, making every students happy. We manufacture graduates; they need not necessary have the knowledge. The classes are conducted mechanically; we generate automatons.

This statement seems harsh and "Unbecoming". But the truth is always painful and "degrading". However, a truth is a truth, and as long as our torpid mentality continues to rules our system, our obtuseness will lead us to a moronic state and ultimately, calcified oxymoronicism.

We may have a man in space, and will be landing in moon soon, with a hypervision to land in Mars. But we have only darkness that had prevailed within a dysfunctional system. The saying goes - Only Malaysian believed that we will be the first to land on the Sun, albeit at night.