I am grateful with PCA Suppiah Subramaniam, former Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Executive Vice President & GMR (India) JV Hyderabad Project, for sharing his feedback to my story entitled “In a world leaning on AI. ”highest productivity with a human touch" represents the ultimate balance in modern operations" published by newswav.com on 01 August 2026. Permit me to quote him “AI technology is here to enable humans to do their job more efficiently. It will change at rapid pace. However, human intervention must continue as there are human values which AI cannot emulate.”
My good friend & colleague, Yazdi Jehangir Bankwala, COO Sejahtera Leadership Initiative & Global Sejahtera, who is in London for family commitments the past 20 months (since March 2025) shared with me an interesting development that “Amid a spate of cellphone and social media bans for young people around the world, there's a parallel, quieter shift taking place in education. It is away from the ubiquity of digital technology and back to analog tools, paper, pen, and pencils. And, in an interesting twist, this change is being led by the Scandinavian nations that pioneered the shift to emphasis on tech mediated learning more than a decade ago. Today, they are grappling with restoring or, rather, redefining what contributes to meaningful & enduring for school children.”
Yazdi added, “In 2009, Sweden - home to tech giants Spotify and Klarna, among others - swap out printed school textbooks for computers and tablets. In 2023, it had announced Euro$104 million (US$123 million) plan to bring back school-based learning, especially in the early grades. Finland began a similar reversal in 2024, And so has Norway which, starting in 2016, issued an iPad to every 5-year-old starting school. Now, its government, teachers, and librarians are going all out to boost reading - through library-based, youth-friendly activities and community reading sessions.” (www.courier.unesco.org>articles-scandinavian-schools<)
As former Chairman of Parent-Teacher Association (PIBG), I realized for too long, education has primarily been viewed as a means “to succeed, to be useful, to secure a future.” The development in the Scandinavian nations, offers an opportunity to reimagine education as the cultivation of judgment, purpose, and the capacity to think and choose well in a world that balance with human values.
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