Pasti to teach Mandarin and Tamil? Draw up national education policy first, says PAS
PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man says any move to introduce Mandarin and Tamil in PAS-run kindergartens must be guided by a national education policy, not ad hoc demands.
He was responding to DAP’s Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng, who had challenged PAS to prove its sincerity by offering the languages in its Pasti preschools, after Tuan Ibrahim suggested yesterday that they be taught in national schools.
Pasti is a PAS network of Islamic preschools focussing on religious education in the Malay language.
“We want a national policy for education, not one unit here, one unit there,” he told reporters at the Muslim Ummah International Forum here today.
“That’s a village mindset. Tell DAP that.”
Tuan Ibrahim said his proposal for Mandarin and Tamil to be taught…
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