Cocooned in our comfort zone

Our obsession with control and conformity in thought and behaviour discourages the young from embracing diversity.

MY much loved, much admired headmistress, Mrs Dawn Parry, passed away last week. It’s been almost 40 years since I left the Sultan Ibrahim Girls School in Johor Baru. Yet, to this day, my school mates and I still think of Mrs Parry and the school she led for 28 notable years with much fondness. She was a teacher who made the difference to our lives and our future.