After reflecting my schooling years I have to agree with my friends that those who started school in 1983 with the new KBSR format felt like guinea pigs. I did too!

Then, the Standard Five exams became the Standard Six with the UPSR format. Things were fine until they changed the year end school holidays from December to October.

We had to start our new school year in December. Remember?

I felt that was really weird starting our school term at the end of the year. Our Christmas holidays had to be cut short and Christmas was never the same again.

And by that time I had a sense that other sort of changes was coming soon and I dreaded that. We just had to go through the motions and study hard while thinking what sort of changes was coming next. I resented that feeling.

Later we were in Form One under the KBSM thingy and life went on as usual. The SRP was later replaced by the PMR exams while the SPM and STPM so far have not been changed.

Recently, our Education Minister Muhyiddin Yasin suggested that the UPSR & PMR be scrapped because our education system is too exam oriented.

For a start, why not the ministry conduct an investigation on our Chinese and some of our Tamil schools and learn what their strengths and their methodologies are? We do not need to go far as the solution to our predicament is only a stone's throw away!

And during the Umno general assembly Muhyiddin suggested to make a pass in history compulsory.

Why the sudden rush to change our education system again and again? Does he know what he's doing?

Somehow he doesn't inspire confidence in those who really take education seriously. After all, it was also DPM Muhyiddin who scrapped the teaching of Science and Maths in English previously.

Well, for one our young minds are not your guinea pigs anymore. We are not your lab rats that you or Umno think can experiment with. We have had enough of these changes that actually don't make sense to us at all.

Secondly, the less changes you people make on our education system the better. I know this is one ministry that every politician wants to use to make a mark for themselves.

Any change has to be backed by a proper study that engages all sections of society. What is so difficult in doing that? Is it plain laziness or political expediency? I think we all know the answer!

Thirdly, please stop politicising our education system. After all the government's brand of politics is rotten to the core and I'm afraid our schools are already becoming a sad reflection of that rottenness.

Imagine the kind of students that are being produced from this type of rotten and failed system. Is our system churning out the best or are we producing the rempits, ah longs and gangsters all the way?

Instead please spend our country's resources to train our teachers and recognise their value whoever they are. They are the gurus to our young minds and their contribution to our nation is priceless. I believe this is one step that is very much lacking today and Muhyiddin, you can make a huge difference by doing so.

Finally, I think we all know what needs to be done with our education system. A total overhaul needs to be executed and it must always start from the head. And I believe we will have that opportunity not very long from now.