Answers to education transformation lie in the past
Published:Tuesday | February 15, 2022 | 12:05 AM
THE EDITOR, Madam:
The aggression in our society, as evidenced by the behaviour on our roads, along with the level of violence generally, should make us stop and ponder what has gone wrong in our country.
It is said, “As a man thinketh, so is he”. Our behaviour is linked to our thought process. With our horrendous murder rate, we ought to stop and consider how to get our people to be more thoughtful, peaceful, kind and gentle. This is now a good time, as we are giving thought to the transformation of our education sector.
That transformation ought to begin with the recognition that as human beings, we all have a bent towards evil; we have to be trained in doing what is good and right. What efforts, therefore, are being made to train our children in the ways of peace, gentleness and kindness? Are we helping our children to be able to distinguish right from wrong, and to have an appreciation for things which are good?
In our present day, individuals evidently no longer have a fear of the living God. So while the country is financially better off than when I was a child, socially we are worse off. We have cars, cellphones and Wi-Fi, but we have lost something precious. And instead of education helping us become better persons, we are in danger of producing more violent and educated criminals. Dare I then suggest that it maybe that some of the answers for the future are to be found in researching the strategies which worked in the past?
SHIRLEY RICHARDS