Schooling should certainly not be about deciding whoisworthyof a good education at the age of 11, and sending all the failures to the educational scrap heap.
For, without doubt, another great physicist, whoisworthyof ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
Instead, the president, who has described Mr Malema as a good leader whois"worthy of inheriting the ANC" urged South Africans to be patient with Mr Malema and understand that he is young and still needs guidance.