, the system manages a multilingual network of schools that reflect the nation's multi-ethnic fabric. The Educational Pathway
Walk into a Malaysian classroom, and you notice two things immediately:
“Everything in this school is about race,” Wei Jie said, quieter now. “The Chinese stream is ‘too competitive.’ The Tamil schools are ‘underfunded.’ And the national school? We all pretend we’re one bangsa (race) until it’s time for university quotas.”