Controlled freedom - An oxymoron

Don't we just love being Malaysians? We are probably very lucky that our morality, good values, patriotism etc can be boiled down to "SPM Pendidikan Moral 1A". Looking at Western students, I'm sure they don't have things so easy as to them a person's moral values is based on their character and behaviour.

Isn't it great, all we have to do is memorise a set of 'nilai-nilai moral', some crap about rasuah and score good results in your Moral exams. Get good marks = good student? Hmm, sounds like the truth, but unfortunately not the whole truth and probably nothing like the truth.

Example:
Kebebasan Bersuara: Basically talks about we having the freedom to say whatever we want, but with batasan tertentu. In other words, controlled freedom of speech (ironic, oxymoron). Basically sums up our country on the whole: "Don't criticise the government lah, they work so hard to membangunkan negara and mengharumkan imej negara in the international arena..."
The Malaysian Dream? That's open for consideration, if we ever had one (Wawasan 2020 aside). Or, "Better not criticise government hor, later kena ISA lah..."

If there ever was a Razzies for exam subjects, Moral would probably have a clean sweep of all the 'awards' up for grabs. No other subject is as narrow-minded and pointless. Memorising nilai moral to be a better person? Having kempen melukis poster lautan to save the seas? (Oops, i made a mistake there, cannot use kempen, not suitable lar, should use pertandingan.) The list is endless, if anyone has any more examples of mind-boggling, illogical answers for Moral questions, feel free to post your own comments.

Too bad that our sound and fury is signifying nothing at the moment. I look forward to the day when our education system begins to resemble an education system.

Moral is so dense, light bends around it...