It is wrong...

Read of excellent students not being able to pursue courses of their choice, and there were also news of good students not getting a place in the local universities. All this is confusing to me, to have students who worked very hard at their studies and achieving excellent and yet getting turn away. We are just talking about those who had chosen to further their education here after their SPM. Undoubtedly many of these students really have no choice, especially so when they come from families unable to finance them in private or schools abroad. Think of the many bright minds we have sent abroad never to return back here, well maybe for short holidays, that's about it... this system has to change. Education must be available for all of those who seek to pursue it, they must be given the rights to the course of their choice, afterall it is their future and it is not for some unknown official sitting somewhere to decide for them. We are constantly talking about development of the country but beyond this incessant rhetoric, there's hardly any attention on these most basic elements of development.
Development is not just some fancy physical infrastructure, roads, bridges, buildings and concrete structures. I am sad to note that beyond such 'forms' of development, there is very little to look forward to. Education is the single most important key in our quest to develop the country and sadly, year in year out we receive news and feedbacks that serves to reinforce the negative perceptions many have of the system. This is compounded by the lack of real resolve to undo the wrongs of the system, perpetuating the unfair, unjust and shallow system in place. Citizens get disillusioned, the young gets a rude shock on their first encounter with the system, extreme worldviews are formed and the stage is set for the seeds of disunity to grow. We allow these sores to fester destroy us. I guess there is really very little I can do,.. which makes it pretty depressing... For now I can only pray.