Beginning on an optimistic note, one must state with confidence that these challenges, however stubborn though they may look, cannot overwhelm the moral courage and will of a determined people. This means the power to remedy the situation and bring back on the rails the education system lies with the people. It takes no rocket science to realise that government, with all the resources at its disposal, can only do so much and clearly can never be a solution to all problems.
It is vitally important to supplement government machinery with the power of the people. We the people must wake up from our deep slumber and assume a more pronounced role in the quest for durable and lasting solutions to our trouble-prone school system. As a country we did it before and we can do it again. A quick glance at our colonial history clearly shows that on the one hand, our traditional chiefs, for strategic security reasons, ceded political power to the British but on the other hand retained the much treasured traditional spirit of self-determination and self-reliance.
