Malaysia is a country with a multicultural society. Thus, we need to have an education system that equally meets all races' needs. However, before the Independence Day of Malaysia, the system was biased as the British Colonization implemented the Divide and Rule Policy. As a result, several education systems were used during that time, such as Chinese and Indian vernacular schools, madrasah and tahfiz, and English schools. The opportunity for some races to pursue studies in education is plenty since some of them comes from unfortunate family. 

Nonetheless, the Malaysian government keeps upgrading the education system following the current changes starting with a few reports; Barnes Report 1950, Fenn-Wu Report 1951, Education Ordinance 1952, Razak Report 1956, and Rahman Talib Report 1960 draws an outline, objectives, and policies of education. Malaysia's education policies always highlighted the importance of societal peace, harmony, respect, and togetherness between its people. 

Hence, the national education system holds an essential role in achieving the main objectives of our country, which is to promote unity between races. The education reform as proposed in the current system, KSSR and KSSM (upgraded version of KBSR and KBSM), to some extent helps unify the education system as it opens wider opportunities for students regardless of races to various elective subjects and become familiar with the university system (e.g., collaboration programs between High School and local universities). Through these opportunities, the students could explore their passion in many fields as well as mingle with various types of people at school.