Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- One should wail over a country that has its education bastardized. One should pity a country that compromises its standard of education. One should also mourn a country that separates manners and character from knowledge. A country that even turns its teachers to punchbags has declared a war against development. Such a country will not be able to dream of development let alone develop.

If Nigeria were a country, we may begin to investigate the general backwardness that now characterizes it from the perspective of manners and character of those that were/are elected to govern it. Most of them are obviously educated and wield different kinds of certificates. Some of them even speak well polished grammar but with catastr...