Author:
Sikita Tomape
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Date Posted: Wed, Jun 06 2007, 11:33:01am
Sanso, I read your inputs in this forum with great admiration. I don't contribute a lot myself. You and others have debated issues of concern to Enga at great length and this clearly exhibits your patriotism. However, I only differ in one aspect of your remarks and that is the bit on education. You tend to habour the view that leadership is not necessarily predicated on one's education. You may be correct given the fact that the former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating and others did not have a college degree to be a leader. However, increasingly, education is now becoming an entrenched requirement for public office occupancy. There are several East Asian countries which set benchmarks for aspiring politicans to fulfill (i.e. for political aspirants to have college degrees and to become a Minister in a cabinet, this will require candidates with post-graduate qualification with extensive industry experience).
In a rapidly changing world of technology, international trade, transnational crime, etc..., we need leaders who have attained some level of education. This is to state that education is no longer an optional requirement but an absolute must for one to make effective representation of the country's or public interest.
Charisma is one thing but in the modern world, it will require more than just the ability to influence. A leader is expected to be knowledgeable about issues that will necessitate rationalisation. Rationalisation calls for the highest levels of intellectual analysis paling into relative insignificance the purposes and utility of wisdom, advice and experience. Increasingly use of text-book knowledge and findings from laboratories are becoming a sin quo non in the political decision making process.
The poor quality of debate on proposed legislations in the Parliament in my view is testament to the poor grasp of the meaning and substance of those proposed laws and policies. Leaders who are vocal and those who offer criticism with credence are those with at least a first degree of better. Enga stands to benefit more by electing educated Engans and not those with the big man tag.
Otherwise, a well presented lecture.
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