Quality of teaching is the main issue

I REFER to the letter “Need to be bold in Education” by Yow Lop Siaw (The Star, Aug 3). I do not see the correlation between the “total usage of Bahasa Malaysia in teaching and the administration of education” and “lowering the standard of Malaysian public education”.

If anything, the writer suggests that a simple cosmetic change to the education system will ultimately increase the perceived notion of “education quality” in our country. There was no mention of “how” the teachers were trained, or the size of classes in government schools (which is enormous compared to those in developed countries), the syllabus, focus on rote learning or the ability of our education system to accommodate students with different skills and academic inclinations.