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We demand the continuation of state-funded education. We further demand that the state should establish and finance a series of schools of excellence, which will provide scholarship education of the highest possible quality, free of charge, with admittance purely on the basis of academic merit.

 

If you wish to keep a people oppressed, you keep them ignorant. Such was the way of malevolent tyrants for most of history. One of the greatest achievements of the age of enlightenment was the way that knowledge became available to all people, not just a select few. In this country, this was achieved by the creation of a public education system. Regardless of the problems that might exist in our education system today, the principle of its existence is sacrosanct.

 

The state must ensure that all young people have access to an education system, the first goal of which must be to equip them for the world of productive work. Why? Because this is the ultimate empowerment – it equips them to be able to achieve what they want to in life, without having to rely on anybody else to do it for them. The education system of the National Agenda must also imbue young people with a sense of collective identity, discipline, organisation and mental resilience, ensuring that they are prepared to face the hardships of life equipped for victory. Young people must complete their formative years with a positive and constructive direction for their lives, and must be guided down a path towards the greatest achievement that they are able to reach.

 

In order to achieve this, the state must ensure that those citizens who show academic merit are given all the support they require down this path of achievement, irrespective of their wealth or background. This means, in practice, establishing a series of Schools of Excellence, which the state will equip with the best staff, best facilities, and best investment. Not only will this benefit those who have directly shown themselves to be deserving, but it will also benefit the rest of the National Community, as those young people who excel as a result, will be in a position to put back into the system to the best of their ability, which funds and equips the state to provide the same quality of education to the next generation.

 

In addition, it should be routine practice that the state finance the tertiary education of people whose chosen profession serves the National Community’s demands, medicine being an obvious example.

 

Knowledge is power, and through knowledge our National Community will have its power.

 

By National Rebirth Party

 

Read our NATIONAL AGENDA in full HERE