Reasons for free education

PLEASE allow me to express the truth about why the government must subsidise education as a way forward to develop PNG.
Education is not a political football for politicians and political parties to be kicked around during election sessions nor as a political agenda to be included as one of their policies to be debated and lure votes in elections. Education is the only key that can open all doors for real change. You will prove it correct if you were to ask the 10 most powerful countries in the world how they have come to where they are now — surely none of them would ignore to mention education as being the only factor that caused civilizations and revolutions to make the great breakthroughs in their science & technology, political, economical and social histories.
I want the entire population of this beautiful country to know this free education is not the O’Neill-Namah regime’s political policy designed to lure votes in this election. Education is not also Peter Ipatas’s political policy, where he claims to be the father of Enga’s education nor for other political parties.
Many successive governments over the last decades could have given priority to education just like the O’Neill Government is doing,but the problem was that Education to their narrowed and corrupt minds meant nothing more significant for them to give it a priority because if they did that they thought that it would cost them too much, which would then affect their budget for other Departments like Health. That is why education has become a victim of other political interests and motives. Now the light has come! It has come, thank you to the O’Neill government in making education a priority for PNG.
However, free education is not same as quality education. Quality Education is more than a free education. This is a serious concern for our current education system in PNG now. If quality education is a serious concern for PNG, then how should the government produce quality education through our existing systems in the Education Department is a big question that needs collective effort. Why this needs collective effort and who are the collective effort contributors?
nFIRST group to contribute according to my view, in bringing quality is our parents. If you carefully sit down and identify and analyse why we have drop outs from schools, broken marriages and all youth associated issues affecting our society today are all initially started from the family in which parents being the root cause. Parents have the greatest responsibility to play and this is not a laughing matter. The major area where parents are held accountable is the area of discipline.
* SECOND group to contribute quality is family, relatives, tribesmen and community.
* THIRD group to give hand is teachers and facilitators from the learning centres, such as schools.
* FOUTH group is the Education Department and its entire Cirriculum Development Division.
* FIFTH contributor is the government, which includes all levels of Government, from a village councillor to a prime minister of a country.
Government must give what is constitutionally and rightfully belongs to the people, that is the Public Service delivery by creating the required avenue for the other four contributors to realise their own responsibilities as per required. Government’s free education policy is not wrong, it is not a political agenda nor it is a total waste of money. Free Education Policy is a good policy and it must become a law in PNG.

Lost Particle, Lae.