Tunku Abdul Aziz on the need to be proficient in the English language;

"The notion that having a doctorate is all that is required of a university teacher is one of the reasons why our standards are dismally low.

Displacing English in the name of nationalism has put this country back at least 50 years.

The unintended victims are the Malays who can find reasonable employment only in government agencies. With an English education, they do not need crutches to make their way in the world.

A change of this magnitude requires of our leadership moral and intellectual courage of the highest order, but this will make a dramatic difference to the way we compete for opportunities: for the Malays, doing without the reliance on government largesse for basic survival would make them a more confident people."

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