I REFER to the article by Prof Shad Saleem Faruqi titled “Idealistic aims of education” (The Star, Oct 2) in which the writer asks a question: “Are universities about education or utility?”
To me, as somebody who spent a quarter century studying and teaching in Malaysian universities, the answer is clear: as the way Malaysian universities handle education, it is merely utility. But I am not implying that this is a bad thing.
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