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Let's support the committee reviewing university funding model

Students during a past graduation ceremony. [Fil;e, Standard]

One of the most prudent decisions a country can ever make for its future is the decision to invest in quality education of its present generation. At family level, much like at the state level, there is a firm, irrefutable belief in education as the greatest equaliser in society. To borrow the famous words of RL Sharpe, each learner is given a bag of tools, a shapeless mass, and each must make a stumbling block or a stepping stone.

In that sense, quality education is also a pathway for according, and dispensing justice in a republic. Plato, the Greek philosopher, had much to say on this score. The many education systems around the world are somewhat modelled along his ideas of baseline, universal introduction of learners to benefits of education, and sieving their abilities while placing them where they are most likely to thrive, in a republic.

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