Nepal, Jan. 17 -- The Nepali intelligentsia excels in playing the blame game. Finding fault and pointing fingers at others for everything wrong with society and polity is the favourite pastime of the comfortable class. It is rare to find a sense of self-reflection, let alone self-reclamation, even among those holding leadership positions in their respective fields for long.

Along with the government, the school management, the community of teachers, and parents of students up to the secondary level are the four most important pillars of quality education. Public schools began to deteriorate the day the social elite abandoned them altogether in the 1980s. Even teachers of public schools don't enrol their children where they teach.

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