Education is a continuous learning process by which people’s potentials, abilities, giftedness and talents are nurtured, developed and enhanced. Education in this broad sense is also everything that is learned and acquired in a life time; knowledge, character, moral, skills, habits, interests, attitude, behaviour, personalities, leadership, entrepreneurship, craftsmanship, etc. Education is based on a system of belief using the learning processes of teaching, coaching, training, advisory and consultancy and applying the approaches of instructional (reception of knowledge), investigational (discovery of knowledge) and constructional (immersion of knowledge). Education is then done through the phases of awareness, moulding, application and other relevant components. Education is implemented through pedagogy of care, love and respect which focuses on the mind, the heart, the soul, the spirit and the physical body, but targeting the heart willingly, happily and joyfully for the sake of God (based on the First Principle of Rukun Negara – Belief in God). The Integrated Holistic Education System (IHES) focuses on five (5) learning outcomes; Immersion of Knowledge, Character Building, Skills and Competency Enhancement, Academic Achievement and Application in Life. Therefore, in order for us to actualize a continuous educational transformation and reforms, we need an education system that is stable with efficacy (effective, strong and solid, impactful, potent and efficient), complete and sustainable, contemporary, comprehensive, integrative, holistic and universal. Otherwise, only transaction processing within education will happen.

During my undergraduate days in the 70’s, for a ‘Kampung Boy’ struggling to read and understand ‘English Literature’, especially poetry, I remembered once asking my poetry lecturer how does one recognise so-called ‘good poetry’, or, what constitutes ‘good poetry’? The reply: it’s not always easy to define ‘good poetry’ – it’s a lot easier to identify ‘bad poetry’.

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