Teaching students the wrong lessons will have a devastating impact on our collective future, said former international trade and industry minister Rafidah Aziz.

She said this in calling on the government to be judicious in selecting teachers for the mass hiring scheme recently announced by Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin.

"Wrong things that are taught, or imparted in an inappropriate way, can have a negative long term impact especially when race, faith and such elements are...