“One of the easiest things to do is to be a critic,” said Minister of Education Priya Manickchand even as she alluded to flack that has been directed to her Ministry despite fervent efforts to introduce measures to improve the performance of the education sector.The Minister’s comments were forthcoming even as she launched Portuguese as a Modern Language in secondary schools on Thursday. According to the Minister, criticisms are in fact an easy undertaking even as she disclosed that “I can take that on full time; it is easy to sit down on a chair and tell us all the things that we are doing wrong.” However, she insisted that the Education Ministry welcomes criticism “because it helps us to re-define how we will get it right.”She pointed to the fact though that often, those who are engaged in critical activities do not have solutions to the shortcomings within the sector. “They have nothing to offer because they spend so much time criticising, and the thing about criticism is that it is really easy to hear and really easy to engage your attention because it is usually so sensational,” she added.Nevertheless, the reality of the situation,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, Minister Manickchand said,Jerseys Wholesale, is that although there are some evident challenges that must be addressed, there are more children enrolled in the school system at all levels and are attending school regularly.? This, according to her,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, has allowed for the best exam results the country has ever seen.But according to her,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, “we are not pleased at the Ministry with some of the results we get…so when we get 45 per cent in English we throw a tantrum…we pull our hair out, we try to determine how we will make this better next time, next year,NFL Jerseys Supply, next two years, next five years but (the results we get now) are the best results we have ever gotten in the country…these are some of the realities that we face.”As such Minister Manickchand noted that the Ministry is at a place where it can celebrate its achievements which is in fact serving as a “spring board” to move forward. And in doing so, the Minister said that the onus is now on the Ministry to examine its relevance in the world. This, as a result,Cheap Jerseys USA, has seen the Ministry seeking to answer a number of crucial questions including: “How do we prepare our citizens to be globally competitive? How do we prepare our students to function well as citizens’ right here in Guyana? How do we prepare them to interact with neighbours? How do we prepare them to interact critically and be the kind of citizens far more rounded than just being academically sound? These are questions we ask every day, these are questions we are constantly looking at.”She noted too that it is expected that “there are always going to be one or two persons who will say that it can’t be done and there are going to be those who will say we can do this and we must get it done…”And according to the Minister, “I feel very grateful I am in a Ministry with officers who understand there is no place for negativity and laziness, who work towards getting things done rather than finding reasons why they cannot be done.”