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NSTletters Our National Education Philosophy is value-laden and comprehensive but focus is otherwise on reality.

This is to produce individuals who are intellectually and physically balanced, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God.

However, in reality when I teach courses on curriculum or philosophy and history of education in Malaysia, the scenario presented by my students in undergraduate or postgraduate levels is disheartening. In my two decades of lecturing at the university, students will rate intellect between four and seven but the other three components between two and five. Some students from religious schools do rate spirituality between six and eight.

 

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