COMMENT | Dr Maszlee Malik has squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to radically reform the Malaysian education system.

He has the power to influence generations of Malaysians, thus enabling the nation to realise its true potential, and forge ahead of our neighbours.

Instead, Maszlee has projected an image of weakness, and given the impression that he is taking orders. Children continue to be turned into lemmings and the country will tread the same racial path as before. It is all about "Them" and "Us".

Maszlee has proven that he is no different from his predecessors in Umno-Baru/BN. Their education policies, which were designed to stultify Malaysians, did not encourage children to think, or to ask questions...