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by Horus » 16 Mar 2020, 21:26
Nobody is trashing the PM. He is being correctly criticized for his tragic unforced error. And, nobody is disputing the sad state of affairs regarding the tragic intellectual and academic collapse of the Ethiopian higher education as well as the shameful intellectual state of its graduates. In fact, not a lot of people will disagree on the facts of the frozen, uncreative, unproductive so called learned class of Addis Abeba.
This is now a national policy problem. This is a problem largely created by his party and the system he served and grew up in. How to reverse this intellectual calamity and problem of intelligence in the population is not a subject for cheap party polemics; it is an issue for a serious national debate, analysis, national policy and national education strategy.
The PM is the last man. The buck stop with him, period. He can't simply gather with a bunch of wealthy addis abebian and bad mouth the very idea of being a learned person, the notion of trying to become an intellectual in general with a blanket statement. In fact his inductive reasoning is extremely flawed. One can't induce or generalize that all political scientist or economists are impractical and useless from a few specific facts of useless professors and academics.
A novice in a basic logic class can make that kind of error, not the very top, the last man of a nation whose job is resolving precisely such like problems.
In fact Abiye needs to stop talking in a vague, unsure, evasive terms like 'some people, some parties' etc . He has the resources to get the facts and he ought to evaluate the facts, frame his communication and speak the facts, critic directly the people whom he want to critic.