Good little doctors

This is not a good day for higher education. I revisited UPM's vet school website and am seething with rage that over a third (9/26 credits) of the 1st year curriculum is devoted to what are essentially propaganda courses.

First Year (Freshman)

Semester I - May

Code	Course	Credit
ANT 2001	Society and Changes	2 (2+0)
SKP 2201	Islamic Civilisation	2 (2+0)
SKP 2202	Asian Civilization	2 (2+0)

Semester II - November

Code	Course	Credit
SKP 2101	Malaysian Nationhood	3 (3+0)

Nearly half (6/13) of the first semester credits and nearly a fourth (3/13) of the second semester credits are consumed by this Mickey Mouse trash at a crucial time. This is the time when kids who say they like animals but hate 'biology' should be learning to see biology as not just a conglomeration (as it's taught in school) but as a new way of seeing the world. This is the time when kids who have never had an original thought in their lives should be learning to be scientists, investigators. Look at it. This is not veterinary medicine. It's total cock-and-bull.

I'm currently trying to figure out where to go to vet school (just finished a BA in biology America -- go figure, a Bachelor of Arts in Biology? Liddat how to find job?). I firmly plan on going home after finishing professional education to counteract the brain drain, but because of the insane UPM curriculum, I'm look anywhere but Malaysia.

Why do they feel they have to keep stuffing patriotism into young adults' heads after 13 years of schooling? What on earth makes them think it works anyway? Oh, right...because nowhere in our primary or secondary education are we taught to think independently.