The list is long in Guyana of problems needing solution and the list isn’t shortening. However, top problem in my personal list remains the state of education in the country. Private lessons are widely considered as a substitute for the classroom. Sport no longer holds an essential place in the educational system. Parents who can hardly afford it are digging deep into depleted pockets to supplement their children’s “free” education. Teachers are badly underpaid. UG needs a huge jolt of new funding and new thinking.
But the deepest problem in our educational system is something other than all of these – and it is a problem which we need to appreciate if our children are not to be left behind in the 21st century. The problem involves the fundamental purpose we should have in mind in educating a child for the complicated,
