Najib: Intellectual capital vital

Source: The Star
  2 February 2015

PEKAN: Efforts to improve the education standard in the country must be backed by everyone, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

The Prime Minister said acknowledging human and intellectual capital as national resources was vital to enrich the country.

“To be more specific, if we have a child in school, then as parents we must support the school's activities,” he said here yesterday before presenting prizes to pupils who excelled in the UPSR exam.

Najib said in advanced countries, it was evident that parents played an important role in their children's education, citing the United States as an example where it was a practice for the wealthy to leave some of their wealth to educational institutions.

“This is why great universities like Harvard and the Massachu­setts Institute of Technology are so rich in funds,” he said.

Najib said another matter to take note of was that parents and corporate figures in the US were willing to make the time to personally send their children for sports practices.

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