Collapsing any Nation does not require use of Atomic bombs or the use of Long range missiles. But it requires lowering the quality of Education and allowing cheating in the exams by the students. The patient dies in the hands of the doctor who passed his exams through cheating. And the buildings collapse in the hands of an engineer who passed his exams through cheating. And the money is lost in the hands of an accountant who passed his exams through cheating. And humanity dies in the hands of a religious scholar who passed his exams through cheating. And justice is lost in the hands of a judge who passed his exams through cheating. And ignorance is rampant in the minds of children who are under the care of a teacher who passed exams through cheating. The collapse of education is the collapse of the Nation.

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Sometimes misattributed to Mandela, this is in fact an a statement of unknown provenance (usually attributed to an anonymous "lecturer in the university in South Africa") spread throughout Internet from around 2017. Later misattributed to Mandela by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam at a press conference.

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