Dear Haslinda,

In my country, thee great majority of schools, primary, secondary and university are public schools. This means that politics is directly involved in the policy and education system in my country.

This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are a lot of students that have access to education. Pre-primary, primary, secondary schools are free, that is, students have not to pay any fees to attend these schools. This is not the case of university, in which there are fees for the student to pay. On the other had, public schools have a curriculum set up by political authorites and hence, they have not much autonomy to set up their curricula.

I would not think much If all schools were private schools. Private schools in my country are costly and hence there would be many students who could not attend them. Of course, private schools have total freedom to set up their curricula.

As I see it, schools at my country are a factor of social mobility. This would not be the case if all schools were private, that is, schools for the rich, but not bu the poor.

Kind regards,

Orlando

Thank you for your response @Orlando

In Finland Our government formed yesterday, stated that every child is to study until 17 years of age and is thereby entitled to free schoolbook during this period of life. Finland wants to be proud of its educated people.

It is undeniable that Finland has become a global commendation on this issue of education. Malaysia also looking at it is appropriate educational pattern.