COMMENT | The so-called national laureates, who are opposed to the teaching of Maths and Science in English, think it is a joke that Malays should forever be pushed backwards in mastering the language of science and technology.

English is the language of post-industrialism, of Artificial Intelligence (AI) philosophy, of this and that of the advanced hyper-modern society that our nation ought to understand of its underpinnings, if not ride on its wave.

Together with the Malay or Islamic youth movement, Malay writers group and the other sentimental-illogical Malay band of opposers of English as a medium of instruction, they are plagued with a sense of vain-gloriousness and idiotic, if not false, sense of pride in defending the Malay language to the detriment of the future of the Malays themselves.

These are groups that are quite useless as participants in the dialogue for language advancement, frequently mounting arguments of pro-Malayness that are either stale, invalid and incapacitated in the face of the advent of higher science, or they are just plain ignorant of the needs of today's Malay children who are crying for...