The remarks by Nokwanda Khuzwayo concerning pupils’ culture at schools (Mercury, November 23) provide insight into the decline of discipline in schools. Khuzwayo argues that teachers have no right to “disrespect” what a...
News and opinions about our flawed and failing education system in the wake of violent attacks on teachers by so-called learners and the continued use of corporal punishment have resulted in a blame game between unions, the authorities and...
The reasoning of the Statistician-General, Dr Pali Lehohla as to why the success rate of black students at university level is now worse than in the 1980s beggars belief (Daily News, January 24). Lehohla stated that in the 1980s for every...
I believe it was the American poet Ezra Pound who once said that “real knowledge is for the few who insist on pursuing it. For the rest, education is mere shepherding.” His words are most helpful in illuminating an affliction that has harmed us...
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