Malaysia Has First Class Facilities but Malaysians Have Third Class Mentality.

Malaysia’s persistent drive to develop and upgrade its infrastructure has resulted in one of the well-developed infrastructure among the newly industrializing countries of Asia. Today, Malaysia can boast of having world class facilities in terms of roads, airports, ports and even the Multimedia Super Corridor. For example, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia’s biggest port and network of well-maintained highways and a rail transport network, that is the Express Rail Link. Although Malaysia has been striving hard to improve our infrastructure to first class facilities, third class mentality still prevails among Malaysians. One of the main reasons for third class mentality to exist is the lack of education among us. Having this simply means there is a failure in our education system. Education system in Malaysia is more towards the learning and mastering of skills and knowledge rather than the development of mental attitude. The young ones were being exposed to under qualified teachers, affected and do not have the ability to differentiate right from wrong. In 2006, our former prime minister, Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi has expressed his view in the Ninth Malaysia Plan that our country is in fact has the first class facilities but third class mentality. KLIA is the best example of the lack of world class management and working practices or as our former prime minister put it as from poor execution and inept management to shoddy maintenance and appalling customer service, Malaysia is in danger of possessing hardware but little software. Next reason will be the lack of appreciation among fellow Malaysians. Although Malaysia Government has provided our country with various types of world class infrastructure, some of the Malaysians just do not seem to acknowledge and value these public properties. Malaysians seems to feel that the the grass is always greener on the other side. Some will only realise that