and it just hit me...

why is it that our Pendidikan Islam uses textbooks by the education ministry and not the Quran itself?

that's like playing Gran Turismo for your driving lesson.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

cuz the textbooks are like the basic thing.
koran is used for the higher learning.
one more thing, in spm, if one got an a2 for pendidikan islam, what do you think he'll get if the learning is based on the fully complete koran?

benjamin said...

not funny. still, are you saying that the koran isn't simple enough to be understood?

well, he'd probably be more pious than he is right now

Anonymous said...

it depends. as 4 me, it isn't. hell dude, its in arab!!! is it simple 4 u?!!! have u fully understand the koran. i bet not.

is 'he' u?

benjamin said...

no i haven't. at least i try.

btw, the conversion, or translation of information from one language, or format to another will inevitably lose or differ from its original meaning.

plus, who the heck suggested there should be a test for pendidikan islam?

do i know you?

Anonymous said...

thats it. we try our best to understand it. first we learnt the basic. its like learning ABC b4 getting into poetry.

actually its not. its not like the recent politician if u r referring to that. if u open a koran with translation. u'll see that the translation is, how to say this, direct. when u r just reading the translation, the sentence is like jumble up.

its just a test dude. who the hell suggested that there shud be bm test? how about geo? lawyers, DOCTORS, dont need geography. yet, u r complaining just bout pI test. most of us have faith. so, its not wrong for a pI test

yes..

benjamin said...

no, im not referring to any politician,

yes, im aware that it's not easy, but i can still make sense out of it.

i complained because it seemed relevant to the post. geography is taught from form 1-3, not in medical school or law school. as to why it was included in the syllabus, perhaps as to introduce the subject to student who might have potential interest to study further in it. not everyone in form 3 wanted to be a doctor. a bm test is to, well, test your linguistic abilities in bm. it's the national language, if you can't speak it, you'd fail your spm. that i understand. what i dont is, what does the pendidikan islam test assess? FAITH?

Anonymous said...

why did u remove my last post?

Eli said...

"btw, the conversion, or translation of information from one language, or format to another will inevitably lose or differ from its original meaning."

Too true. :)

About the PI exam... no comment there. I got B during spm.

benjamin said...

eli : yea, translation will never be as good as the original. FYI, i didnt ace that either