Re-building and Re-engineering ourselves
I have participated in discussions with our people about our sorry state and the usual lines I get is that 'we are better than...' My response is why should we always place our bar of expectation so low? Why is our point of comparison limited to 'mediocrity'? What I mean is that it would amount to self-denial if we cannot accept that much of the efforts at building our youngsters in most of the parts of North is lacking in quality of depth and breadth. Though this is not peculiar to us yet it is glaringly obvious that we are lagging far behind in areas of enterprise, innovation and critical thinking. We need a conscientious effort to be applied to raising youth who are independent-minded and have built their creative and innovative sides towards tackling challenges. And if indeed we claim that a system like that of the almajiri system is sustainable then it must ‘necessarily’ be re-invented into a system which arms these army of youngsters with life ski...