AS a regular participant in forums, workshops, seminars, and conferences covering all kinds of topics, an idea I frequently come across when discussing problems of any kind is: school the children while they are young.

This goes for any problem. Environmental issue? We have to teach the child to have environmental awareness at a young age! Problem with national unity? We have to teach unity in school! Traffic laws are being flouted? We have to teach students to be responsible road users! Gen Z employees lacking work ethics? Must be a problem with our school syllabus, we have to fix it!