UM’s glorifying mediocrity with banners
So how do you explain the banners UM put up in the recent days? I was reading theSun weekend today, discussing findings over at educationmalaysia. I choked on my breakfast when I read the write up, then stared incredulously at the findings, not because of the lack of accuracy, but rather for the sheer coincidence of the findings. That Chinese and Indian students were seen as foreigners is just too funny to swallow.
But the glorious reaction from UM is what caught my attention; 2 full entries with photos on the Screenshots site and I wondered what the fuss was about. Then I saw the banners and I was even more amazed: are we in the habit of celebrating failure? Because that’s how it looks to me; we’ve ‘progressed’ from institutionalizing mediocrity to, now, openly celebrating it. Is there a certain twisted logic to this? Who would UM’s current rankings impress? My dearly departed grandmother?
