YOURSAY | 'A good education system should cultivate citizens who dare to ask the right questions.'

Exile: Khoo Ying Hooi’s question deserves serious research - perhaps several PhDs examining corruption, political culture and why a student questioning authority attracts such attention.

Thinkers across political and religious traditions have long examined these underlying problems.

On the left, Frantz Fanon warned in the book titled “The Wretched of the Earth” that independence could leave a national elite pursuing its own enrichment. Politician Antonio Gramsci examined how ruling groups maintain authority through consent as well as coercion.