Training seminars must be fun and beneficial ALTHOUG H costs of university education range from a few thousand ringgit to hundreds of thousand, few working adults would pay a few hundred ringgit for training that could boost their careers or change their lives for the better. Sadly, the learning culture is poor in our country. In seminars opened to the public, participants are usually sent by their organisations, and the participants are happy with welcome breaks from routine work. Few make full use of the opportunity to learn and perform much better. This is evident when they make no effort to prepare questions or raise issues for trainers to answer or expound. During training, many remain silent as most are too shy to ask or answer questions, afraid that others might think their questions are silly or their answers are wrong.