The overpoliticisation of teachers’ unions and its impact on young minds must end if we are to prosper as a nation, writes Khumbulani Mngadi
In the past a university was a place of reasoning and intellectualism.It was meritorious. It was a place for inquiring, critical and independent minds and people with sound reasoning and insights.
One of the reasons we are in this quagmire is the ill-conceived political agenda of massification in the higher education sector.Yes, we need more PhD holders and professors, but at what cost? If our schooling system is to produce the correct outcomes, the powers that be must re-examine the scope of career choices as this is vast and keeps growing.
The onus is upon the basic education department and schools to counsel pupils properly about the options post-matric.In order to do this and to do it correctly, it should be compulsory that schools hire trained career guidance teachers. Pupils carry this bad culture to the universities and jostle for political positions instead of studying.The priority in every school should be teaching and learning, not political activism.
This country is endowed with young great minds but because we have an individualistic culture we are not harnessing these assets.
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