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Free education - what do rioting University students know anyway?
It’s a known fact that youngsters just out of school are naïve and idealistic. John Lenon made a hit song called “Imagine”. It is one of the most popular songs of all time yet its narrative is naïve as Lenon acknowledged later in his short life.
In the sixties most youngsters thought all they needed was love, whereas today our youngster’s think, all they need is a free education. Nope. You need the right education for the job market and nothing is free – so get used to it.
Someone always pays and our inglorious government who are notorious for having no principles and lack management skills will then be forced to pay with tax payer’s money for the tuition, books, accommodation and transport and so on just to appease the masses of students who want freebies.
If our government was efficient and effective at service delivery with tax payer’s money there might be more money available than what is currently used to subsidise the poor students – but they are not. They have blown trillions of Rand due to corruption, stupidity and incompetence that could have built millions of houses and financed millions of poor students – and they will never change because a Leopard cannot change its spots.
You would think that an effective education system especially at tertiary level should be SA's number one priority for our county to have a viable future. Yet our anti-intellectual government will never understand that – they prefer people to be dumb and pliable and living off grants and freebies.
So the first thing our disgruntled students should do instead of rioting and burning down university buildings is to vote in an honest, competent and accountable free market government and dump the out of depth ANC.
Socialistic governments like the ANC are notorious for out dated idealism that leads to nowhere but ruin and for endemic corruption in everything they attempt to achieve.
Yet these same rioting students still vote for them and expect them to listen to their grievances, that is because they are naïve and idealistic. A wise unknown man from France had this to say hundreds of years ago “If a man is not a Socialist at 20 he has no heart, but if he remains one at 30 there is something wrong with his brain”.
University education is a privilege - not a right. If you are academically superior you will have no problem in obtaining a bursary or a bank loan and doors will open for you as if by magic.
Sadly statistics tell us that most students at university should not even be there thanks to our dysfunctional schooling system which has produced a worthless university entry Matric certificate and they drop out in the first year. Some rate our current Matric as equal to a Standard seven pre 94.
Before the ANC cursed SA with their kleptocratic rule you had to be bright to qualify for a university education and those that were not, become artisans and technicians, after serving a lengthy apprenticeship.
It would seem that today some students want to experience parties, drugs, rioting, burning and general loafing and once they “pass” a dubious qualification there's going to be a juicy BEE managerial job waiting for them to the detriment of the company owner or a political science degree setting themselves up for a political career in the ANC or EFF.
The only reason the ANC have decided to help students, despite the fact that some of these students are rioters, abusers, takers, users, non-contributors and are liabilities to our counties tax base, is because they fear their revolutionary tendencies and lack the political will to put them down with tear gas, rubber bullets and jail time.
Soon our universities will not be universities anymore but will become lowly training colleges. Most affluent families will then send their children overseas to reputable universities and their much needed skills will be lost to SA.
The ANC “time machine” is stuck in reverse gear and like the one in Zimbabwe it will take us back to the Middle Ages unless we dump them.
