Immaturity of Our People

It has been a week since my life as a university begun. I am now one step closer in achieving my dreams. Life in university where it so free and nobody is there to look for you is very challenging. There are a lot of temptations that needs to overcome or else you will be drifted far away. Living in a residential school for 5 years has prepared me for my studies but not for the university life. In school, everything has been scheduled for the students to follow. As a student, all there is to do is to follow the schedule and ace the exams. Tutorial and extra classes are given and it is made compulsory to each student. Everything we do in school is monitored and controlled. Teachers are there spoon feeding the students so they will ace their exams. But not necessarily be independent or matured in life. In university, even if you have excellent SPM results, not necessarily you can survive the challenging life. Here, you can see that only the matured students can excel. There had been a lot of cases where excellent SPM holders, flunked in their studies which resulted being dropped by the universities. And what saddened me the most is that most of them are from my own people, the Malays. The immaturity of our people has caused a lot of trouble to our own people. That is why Malays are being left out in almost all sectors in Malaysia right from education to business. We cannot blame other races if they demand to be given more access to the privileges given to the Malays and Bumiputera because they have proved that they can do better then the Malays and Bumiputeras. So now we need to think back and figure out what we are lacking of and start to mend those loopholes. We need to have more intellectuals among our people like we used to have like Tun Mahathir Muhammad and Tunku Abdul Rahman. These are the people who can help to built up our people which is now so left behind in our own country.