For me, to make integration in the upper secondary schools in Malaysia related with 1 Malaysia concepts, we have to change the way of the education in Malaysia.

The implementation of a single stream school could help in the success of the 1 Malaysia concept as it would nurture a sense of unity among students, said International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.

He said, through the education concept, multiracial students could mingle and interact more effectively.

“It can be done for example, by making Mandarin and Tamil languages as elective subjects so that students can learn their friends’ mother-tongues.

“It would be good if Malaysians can master Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil, thus achieving the objective of a harmonious 1 Malaysia, and to understand one another,” he said in his keynote address at the 1 Malaysia Unity discourse here today.

He said to prevent students from neglecting their mother-tongues, the single stream school must make it compulsory for them to take up their respective mother-tongues.

Mukhriz said the education system could bring all races together, through the sharing of culture and tradition, as well as preventing any racial polarisation.

He said the single stream school proposal was stated in the Razak Report 1956, a year before the country gained independence.

“Allahyarham Tun Abdul Razak once said that he hoped the single stream school would become a reality, but after 52 years of our country’s independence, it has not materialised,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mukhriz said the 1 Malaysia concept mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak could be achieved if all parties worked together.

So, I think we should take it such as a guide to make integration in Malaysia especially in upper secondary school become better than now.

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