So much education, so little wisdom


Without reading books and thinking independently, we are merely downloading information instead of actually learning.

OUR country has never before had so many schools, colleges and universities. There are about 450,000 teachers and 5 million students under the Education Ministry. The more than 100 institutions of higher learning in Malaysia has some 3,000 professors and 30,000 academics.

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