Malanding,
Your concern about why "educated" folk get mired in incomprehesible relations is not misplaced. The answer lies in the fact that being "educated" is not simply being schooled in an institution. Far from it. It involves being cultured and having received valuable parental guidance in one's formative years. Lacking that, one could garner all the institutional education available but not be able to synthesize it or properly use it among their fellows.
We have too often mistaken schooling for education or intelligence. If we agree that no one person can absorb all the information available in education, then everyone to an extent is semi-literate. This means that additional training in the utilization of what education one has experienced, is required to approach a semblance of humanity. Witness their difference from animals. A semi-literate therefore lacking the this dose of culture and parental guidance is ill-educated and useless to society. This phenomenon is contagious and chronic. So the buyer of literacy beware.
I declare therefore that not only Tombong but the APRC government is sorely bankrupt of civilized individuals. They may have acquired education in schools but not educated or cultured or appropriately trained to utilize the chump change of a schooling.
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>Subject: Re: I AM NO LONGER THE DG OF GRTS
>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:29:43 -0500
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>I must confess, I was going to ignore Mr. Tombong Saidy's report that he is
>no longer DG of GRTS but will remain a Pro-Jammeh and Pro-APRC. My reason is
>that summary dismissal of apparently "loyal" civil servants without reasons
>is nothing new in the Gambia to be surprised about. Also it nothing new that
>the morning after, we read reports that the dismissed officer who, days
>before could be linched by a mob for his/her obnoxious display of loyalty
>and blind support for Jammeh would be discredited by the media to be
>corrupt, disloyal, power hungry and even treacherous. And that often, this
>seemly able civil servant who gets the boot would come out saying "I was
>fired but I remain a loyal servant to the all-powerful Jammeh".
>Whatever makes seemly educated and well-to-do adults live this kind of life
>is my concern. I think there is more to it than the eye can see. If we are
>to believe what we hear, something is seriously wrong here. I do not know
>how someone who has gone through the struggle of school, college and life in
>general could after being fired and accuse of felony can come back say "I
>still support my boss". For logic has it that until the brain is wrongly
>wired, if it looks like pain, acts like pain, you don't have to go through
>it to know that it is pain. But then sufferers of "Battered Woman Syndrom"
>often claim that their spouses are the most caring and loving ever! The
>tragedy is that some people would have to be "battered to death" to accept
>that their relationship is not all-loving and all-caring.
>
>I suggest we wish Mr Saidy and all those Gambians in the civil service
>caught up in this all the best and pray that they find an easy way out of
>it.
>
>Malanding
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