Mother Tongue - Is it needed?

Okay so i will be talking about the issue whether our mother tongue weighting should be reduced.  Personally I feel that it kind of should. There is a common view that chinese is very important as China is seen as a future global business hub. However, what if the person has no wish the work in China?

Basically i feel that mother tongue is basically kind of like your own cultural language. So, yes it is important, but i would say the other three subjects are even more important. English is currently THE language you need to know, maths and science are a given, since the two subjects are like the base knowledge.

Chinese, is more of preserving the culture within people, and preparing people for the future when China is the global business hub. However, we must take into account when China will become the center and whether the person himself or herself has any desire to work in China. Maybe the person wishes to further his/her career in other places such as germany? Thus i feel that personal wishes also mean a lot.

Also,I feel that mother tongue should at least be changed in how it is taught or even make it optional. At the moment, student are being taught how to write the letters(as in the old-fashioned paper put into post box kind of letters), both formal ones and informal ones. But, take a good look in our environment right now. Who uses letters? Now people use e-mail, sms, where positions of address are not needed, simply because with the WWW, you dont need to have a fixed address! This is a plain waste of time in my opinion. Also we are forced to learn Cheng Yu, but if we take a look into our future, will we even use it in our daily lives? I feel that many things that are taught are very unnecessary and should be removed from the system altogether.