The Editor, Sir:

Education today does not feed the roots of law, justice and morality, three fields which ought to receive special attention. Can a system concerned with food for the stomach train pupils to meet challenges of life which require a strong self-reliant character? No, it can only smother even the inborn virtues of love and truth.

Education must instil the fundamental human values; it must broaden the vision to include the entire world and all mankind. When earning money is held as the goal, the system fosters falsehood and injustice, it restricts the vision to family and community, and brings in its train anxiety, sorrow and hatred.

Education must equip man to live happily without making others unhappy, to evaluate things, pleasure and possessions correctly and without prejudice, and to fix one's attention ever on the highest and most precious achievement of all, the realisation of one's spiritual essence. The spiritual stream must flow in the heart as the source and spring of all endeavour.

In this manner education will result in the transformation of the individual, into becoming not only academic heroes but also community heroes. The end of education is not knowledge, but character.

I am, etc.,

LALU N. VASWANI

siewibb@promotech.net

25 Clapham Close

St. Michael, Barbados

Via Go-Jamaica