The value of technical skills


Hanis Syuhada works with cows as it has been her ambition to care for the well-being of large animals since her primary school days.

ALBERT Einstein once said: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”

Yet in this corner of the world, many people - the older generation in particular - still do so by holding on to the mindset that achieving high academic scores equates to success.

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