During my doctoral days, I read two very important and then quite popular books in the US. One was entitled, The Schooling of America and the other, The Closing of the American Mind .

Today, almost 20 years later, it appears that most of our so-called educated and learned elders of our society appear to have not read these books or to have learnt the lessons arising from them.

One recent debate in Parliament the past month reminded me of how much the August house has also become of house of lies, untruths, and half-baked theories with some false hypotheses.