Education System Should Be Responsive
Monday, October 22, 2018
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As he ended his inaugural speech that defined a generation J.F Kennedy said ‘ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can do for your country’. These words are very much applicable today if not more.
A significant number of people today have become a society with entitlement mentality, a society fearful of change to the benefit of stagnation and detriment of progress, a society whose interest is to reap what has not been sown.
Smash-and-grab incidents became common at traffic lights, Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) bombings made headlines too often, cash-in-transit robberies terrified security personnel, while home invasions left families traumatised in the very places they were supposed to feel safest. The situation had reached alarming levels and threatened not only the peace of ordinary citizens, but also the country’s reputation as one of the safest and most...