Why are our children tying off their futures with ropes, bedsheets and scarves around their throats? Why are our children choosing coffins over classrooms? And how dare we call ourselves protectors when we sharpen the knives they fall on and call it encouragement?

I am sorry to say this, but this is not the mission and vision of education. It never was! Yes, read that again. Education was never meant to be a living hell or a burial plot. Our pioneers did not introduce education so that students would start killing themselves. Our leaders did not fight to build educational institutions so that students could hang themselves in their bedrooms. Classrooms were meant to open minds, not close lives. Education was meant to awaken young intellects, to stimulate curiosity, to give children the wisdom to build their lives and serve humanity. It was never meant to place a gun to their heads, to choke the life out of them, or to put them in a suffocation box until they burst.

Think about it. Sir........

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