Education in Malaysia Before Independence and Its Implications for The Unification of Malaysian Society

Abstract

Education in Malaysia went through multiple phases, pre-colonial, post-colonial, and then before and after independence to the present day. There is no doubt that knowing this historical sequence shows us the current reality and what the society has become, and the challenges facing the Malaysian society, and then finding an appropriate solution to the problems and challenges based on the correct diagnosis of the disease. The research objectives revealed the stages that education went through in Malaysia before independence. As well as disclosing the types of education that exist, and the curricula on which these schools depend. Then analyze it and mention its implications. The researcher used the descriptive method that relies on deducing history and analyzing it to reach the desired goal. The research found that education in Malaysia before independence relied on certain schools that had their own curriculum and their own system. The emergence of these schools in this way led to a differentiation in the levels of classes of the people according to the material and the distinction between culture, science, and knowledge among the people. It can be said that the ethnic problems that still occur today have their main roots in the education process in the colonial era.