COMMENT Education is to develop a complete man of character and learning, not a means to pass our prejudices and hang ups to the young generation. It is too serious an undertaking to be left entirely in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats. Other stakeholders need to be consulted .

We owe a debt of gratitude to Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli and other supporters of the proposed Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies (Titas) course for opening the Pandora's Box on the educational value and desirability of this officially decreed course imposed on public universities and now planned to be extended to private universities.

For now, there has been nothing offered by way of justification or in defence of the course design by Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister MuhyiddinYassin and his subordinate, Higher Education Department director-general Morshidi Siratto, to allay the concern that the introduction of the course is politically motivated to serve the ruling government's agenda, and not the interest of our young...