Education System Should Be Responsive

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In a game of chess, sometimes one ought to sacrifice a piece in order for them to obtain favourable playing conditions. Sacrificing is an art meant to give oneself a competitive advantage. Normally the future turns to blossom as a direct result of the sacrifices made.

As he ended his inaugural speech that defined a generation J.F Kennedy said ‘ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can do for your country’. These words are very much applicable today if not more.

A significant number of people today have become a society with entitlement mentality, a society fearful of change to the benefit of stagnation and detriment of progress, a society whose interest is to reap what has not been sown.

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