Chapter 1- Education

“Education is the greatest engine of personal development. Through education, the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of a mine. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another” The autobiography of Nelson Mandela long walks to freedom.

“Beep Beep!” sounded the horn of the old man in the taxi behind me. I found my face buried in a book at the wheel of my 1995 Nissan B13 Sunny, too much work to revise and so little time as I rolled up the queue of drivers towards the top of the line where I would taste sweet satisfaction in filling my car with passengers and make the journey to Chaguanas. “You must sleep and come, not come and sleep here in this taxi line,” equipped the irate taxi driver. Little did he know that my bowed head was about me studying intently the author’s world speaking to me how I get ahead in this game of academic life, not the taxi life? “Soon,” I said, “Soon, I would exit this entire line for you.”

That was an actual account of me going to the taxi stand to ‘pick up a few trips’ before heading home. I was a full-time student at University at the time, as was usual for me to be studying at every moment I got. I believe that education is one of, if not, the most important system in the world today. What you feed your mind will inform your future. The usual education system brings children up in a classroom filled with Pythagoras Theorems that many may argue serve no use or purpose with a TE career. The cone of learning speaks to the varying degrees of learning, and the most impactful is the one which includes practical and well as teaching the material. Here we see two clear hindrances to transport entrepreneurs.