Education needs proper system

Letters

EDUCATIONAL issues on tertiary institution selections and fees, improper teacher appointments, school fees, dilapidating state of schools and sundry must make us question the purpose of formal education in PNG in the first place.
There is a view that education does not change the world, but changes people who change the world.
This gives schools, colleges and universities a privileged role as agents to balance social and economic differences in any society.
Now that our institutions are riddled with all the issues currently being reported (and many not reported) deprives them to promote social and economic change.
Schools and higher institutions, due to lack of serious investment, have resorted to maintaining the status quo ‘repeating the same things over and over again’ and have effectively become ‘social reproducers’ rather than ‘change producers’.
If this continues, we are in danger of reproducing mediocre results, which in time (and might I add, speedily in the current phase of change realities), will have detrimental effects on our economy and society.
There is enough evidence everywhere, especially in Asia, to suggest that countries that seriously invested in education as a primary development priority transformed their economies and societies by a thousand fold.

G Bopi