政治化的教育问题？

獨立專欄2011年11月21日

【指南人语/黄书琪专栏】没有制度性改革的魄力与政治意愿，马华公会只能靠他人施舍来掩盖执政半个世纪施政不力的事实。

今年9月19日，马华公会领袖浩浩荡荡，在吉隆坡国际机场为180名赴台就读马来西亚技职专班的学生送机。不到一个月，就传出有马专班学生惹上台湾当地帮派，差点就在学校上演全武行。

按理而言，该数名学生触犯纪律情节事大，按照校规，早该开除遣返，但是至今依然在校，盖因此为马华公会成立的马专班。当然，送佛送到西，假设这群学生最后转性学成归国，的确是美事一桩，可回头一看，不过是马华公会当家不当权的又一出闹剧。

早在马来西亚技职专班之前，由留台联总承办的海外青年技职训练班（简称海青班）已行之有年，入学标准与马专班相去不远但选择更多，且因海外侨生身份入学之故，所需负担之学杂费、健保费用又比外籍身份入学的马专班更低。

既然本就有相同课程，马华公会劳师动众，出动总会长蔡细历远赴台湾考察一遍，亲自拍板定案开设马专班究竟所为何事？

华裔中辍高升学低

副教育部长魏家祥今年10月10日在国会答询时指出，华小辍学生人数比例高居各族人口之冠，与此同时，我国中学生辍学人数也高达9.42%，2010年世界银行报告即已指出，2000年人口普查即已显示，年轻一代的马来族群（15-34岁）当中的大专教育人口已经超越其他各族群的大专教育人口。

另一方面，在我国88所技职中学五万学生人数当中，华裔生不到百分之一。

蔡细历自言我国华裔轻视技职教育，他亲自与台湾教育部长吴清基会面，促成每年300人的马专班课程，意在让我国许多升学无门的华裔青年有个出路，令人哑然失笑的是，马华公会拿人家的现成资源解决自家问题，回国后竟然还自居功劳。

若是在野党也就罢了，作为一个执政联邦政府半个世纪的执政党，教育政策与资源的分配让华裔生在国内找不到出路，理当羞愧忏悔一番，然后积极改革教育体制，让我国教育政策包容多元，解决中辍、升学问题，而非到国外去求得数百名额就大事张扬。

白话一点说，家里大妈不给卫生纸上厕所，这二妈跟邻居讨来了卫生纸还大声炫耀她解决了问题，实在令人难堪。

资源分配解决教育问题

回看马来西亚整体经济、工业结构，放眼未来，长期受到忽略的技职教育的确是重要一环，但是，这绝对不是靠单一政党资源开办学校或协办课程就可以拨乱反正的问题，唯有从教育政策与资源分配著手，才有可能根绝此一制度性问题的产生。

个人即是政治，在一个群体生活当中，举凡衣食住行、教育、福利、就业都与政治的资源分配脱不了关系，动辄高喊不要“政治化”各项议题的政治人物，要嘛是没搞清楚自己的本业，不然就是天真如马华公会，以为开多几间大学、学院就能够替华社的教育问题找到出路，岂知，不过是继续走在逃离政治的轨道上，建议速速转型成为私立教育机构为上策。

Lessons from history

Two weeks ago, I visited Taipei Jingmei Human Rights Memorial Park again. That was a warm autumn day with 30℃. The sunshine only faded away when I was leaving in a taxi with my comrades. The cold was coming back again in the previous detention center.

Jingmei Human Right Memorial Park, once an infamous prison for political dissenters. However, people have short memories, especially in memorizing other agonies.

When asked about the white terror which had occupied Taiwan after second World War, taxi driver told my comrade, “ that was long time ago, why bother to mention it?”

“Is it?” my comrade could only reply the taxi driver with a subtle question.

The prison, rarely have been a foreign visitors' place. Taiwanese tried to distance themselves from there as far as they could in the white terror age. Its former name was Jingmei Military Law Detention Center. In the martial law period, whoever was suspected by authorities that had committed treason against the state, would be arrested and prosecuted under the Military Law.

It sounds familiar to Malaysian. The detention center reminds us the Kamunting detention camp. Likewise, Taiwan had once governed by martial law for few decade long.

The detention center was one of the important scenes of Formosa Incident. A lot of Taiwanese opposition leaders had stayed in the detention center after arresting. For instances, Chen Chu, who is the mayor of Kaohsiung Metropolis, Annette Lu, the first female deputy president from DPP, Shih Ming-te, who lead the million “red army” opposing the corrupted president Chen Tsui-bian in 2007. Moreover, these 3 vocal leaders had stayed in a same cell but in different period.

The wall in that specific cell room is covered by few inch thick sponge to prevent suicide.

In fact, I was first visiting this detention center back in 2007. My friends and I stepped into the detention camp in a gloomy winter day. Few former detainees were sitting at the entrance. The old men told us every detail of the prison, including their life in Jingmei Military Law Detention Center.

They told visitors their story not because of hatred against the then ruling party, they merely wanted to remind the next generation or outsiders that we must learn from the lessons, we must uphold the basic principal as liberty, human rights.

I met an old lady at the detention center in my second visit. She was a former detainee as well. Likewise, she told her own story without hatred. She could even tell visitors in a smiling face on how silly she cried in the court room when her decisive trial was on going in the military court half a century ago.

The past is passed, we must look forward, but not forgetting the past. We must learn the lessons. The history would repeat itself and the regime which hasn't learned anything from it would pay the price.

We do have the stories to tell. In the half century long history of Malaysia, we have too many lives lost in no reason. People lost even their lives in government institutions. Ahmad Sarbani, Teoh Beng Hock and countless detainees in police stations.

The past hasn't passed. We are repeating the history as the BN government has never learned history.