Have schools become theatres of violence?

A strange culture of violence in schools is quietly creeping into our system. We say a strange culture because the underlying philosophy of learning acknowledges discipline as fundamental in the whole process of building a society to be governed by rules and norms. Most recently, there have been reported incidents of violence in a number of institutions of learning. Perhaps the most tragic and regrettable being the one in which a student mustered every courage to stab his teacher to death. Other reported cases include one in which, in the northern part of the country, an overzealous student lover, who…