While schools are considered the intellectual, educational and civilisational nurseries - being a prerequisite for furthering the journey of human civilisation that had started from the barbaric Stone Age and has reached the age of artificial intelligence — they are also the barriers against the human civilisational retrogression which is marked by the clipping of the wings of imagination and by the unabated moral turpitude ending on animalism. The regression was precipitated when schools started using fear as a tool to administer instruction. Over time, schooling has become synonymous with policing the human mind.

Schooling and human civilisation have been concomitant to each other. Both complement each other through the agency of the mind, as Bertrand Russell writes in his essay The Functions of a Teacher, "Civilisation, in the more important sense, is a thing of the mind, not of material adjuncts to the physical side of living." To bolster the cause of a civilised humanity is made possible only through fostering in learners a spirit of........

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