Historian Prof Emeritus Dr Khoo Kay Kim, who raised a storm of protest in the Chinese community for his recent remark that Chinese schools have been good only in producing copycats, wants those who do not agree with him to prove him wrong with facts and figures, China Press reported today.

In an interview, he said he wanted to know the number of Chinese school students awarded national scholarship in the past, as well as the number of world-class scholars the Chinese schools in Malaysia have produced since 1880.

Khoo said people who do not agree with his view that Chinese schools tend to churn out copycats, should disprove him with historical records and evidence.

Only then, he stressed, would he retract his remark, he said when contacted by the daily on Sunday.