"Faced with power cuts, water shortages or crumbling roads, we get angry and vocal about our unhappiness. The media are only too happy to amplify the discontent and the politicians take note and try to respond since that gives them an opportunity to talk about having done something to address the needs of the public when the next elections come by. Sadly, we don’t seem to get angry and vocal at all about the fact that we haven’t been able to ensure a quality education for every single child, even 60 years after independence."
It is human nature to react to problems that have short term consequences and never to problems whose consequences are felt much later.....anthropogenic climate change is the best example. Like the frog in water that is slowly heated, we don't react.
That is the reason why we do not accept power cuts, but accept bad quality of education. We know theoretically, that if we do not educate the children of all economic classes, we will produce a generation of unemployed youth ripe for a life in crime. But all that happens in a time frame of twenty years. Who can think so far ahead?