Education can boost national integration

I TRULY agree with Farah Syahiran’s views in her letter “Learning languages the way to 1Malaysia,” (The Star, Oct 24).

I think the most basic way towards national integration is through education which is important as all of us go to school as kids. We have to spend 10 years in school just from Year One to Form 5. Therefore, national unity should begin at school.

I come from a national school background and I think such schools really unite all races. The Government should encourage more parents to send their kids to national schools.

I believe Maths and Science should continue to be taught in English because we already have so many subjects taught in Bahasa Malaysia.

Students should be encouraged to take up extra languages such as Mandarin or Tamil.

The additional knowledge can be used as extra merit points to apply for a scholarship.

Students should not take up their own mother tongue as an exam subject. This will help strengthen unity as the next generation will have the ability to understand languages from different races.