Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:20:15 -0700 [12:20:15 PM CDT]
From: CAROLINE ATIENO
Subject: Re: Was Kenyan education system manipulated
Amenya
Most people currently in leadership are products of the previous systems. I bet over 90% have been abroad to school at any level, including Kibaki. Uhuru passed through the British and American system, has lived abroad and knows how things are done out there.
The oldest 844 we have is under 40 if I have my facts right. What amazes me is that as Kenyans, we go abroad see how things are done, no littering on the streets, employees have rights and we pay our taxes dutifully while there. When we come back, we cannot do any of these. We treat our own like they are trash. If you can pay a baby sitter $600 a month (about 48k), why then do you come here and pay your househelp 2k and feel nothing?
To me this is has nothing to do with education. It is pure contempt for our own people. The moment we get our values right and look at each Kenyan as a human being who deserves to be treated right, is when we will achieve the level of development that we are looking for.
Maybe we can start by introducing a values?? subjebt in our curriculum. Not the Social Ethics but simple courtesy like how to treat others, say sorry, excuse me and thank you when necessary. So may Kenyans dont understand why you have to say such simple words. All they know is me for myself and God for us all.
Caroline
— On Tue, 5/12/09, amenya gibson wrote:
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From: amenya gibson
Subject: Was Kenyan education system manipulated
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 1:55 AM
Hi People
As we keep accusing Hon Uhuru about 9.2 billions let us not
lose focus on big picture about Kenya and its education system.Maybe
the education system maybe one that of late has build into us
culture of manipulating figures from eduaction schools
rankings,elections or
voting,selections of our teams etc
Am tempted to say that the West in cahoots with our leaders
conspired
to destroy our education system so that Kenya do not
produce highly
qualified skilled people that will challenge them in modern
world.
They knew that if they allow Kenya to continue producing
quality
people one day these highly educated Kenyans of all
professionals
will come to compete or to challenge them in all
field from products
innovations ,to sending Kenyans to Moon if not to Sun.
Maybe as we speak today Kenyans could have developed best
machines,
best technologies utilizing our resources to build Kenya
and even
export some finished products to other countries
We could have Kenyan doctors already found a cure for HIV
and Aids,
read Pro Arthur Obel,Dr Koech etc , We could be having
great
footballers winning world cups; even we could have great
musicians
making wonderful music, We could be having best farmers
too
List is endless
How they manipulated us
First they made sure we hurriedly adopted new system of
education
8-4-4 without have enough resources in place. Yet Uganda
is
comfortable with old system
Secondly, they made sure we have a heavy syllabus system
that made
many students just to study for exams without having time
to grasp
very well what they have been taught hence denying many
young people
time to be innovators
Thirdly, they imposed restrictions on extra hiring of
teachers so that
few teachers who were to remain get burdened with work
loads just to
compromise the quality output
Fourth, they imposed restrictions on pay rise for teachers
so that
teachers lose focus as they get demoralized and begun to
engage into
remedial classes to get extra coin to cushion them from
life hardships
instead of them carrying out more research on new ideas and
methods to
impact knowledge to students
Fifth, they hurried arm-twisted our government to start
8-4-4 very
fast instead of implementing it gradual so that our
government could
have time cater for mass graduates in terms of jobs,
assistance etc
If teachers were well paid am very
convinced that many of these
teachers will fully dedicated their work to teaching which
will not
only boost our quality education but also produce best
candidate
innovators
If teachers were well taken for by our government even
rural economy
will grow and the society will be very happy
It is real very sad to see teachers fighting or engage in
running
battle with security agencies seeking attention from
government and
other stake holders for something they can solve amicably
Infact I may say schools crisis/strikes we witness today
maybe as a
result of students feelings about how their life models who
are
teachers are being treated by society
Unless we have leaders who are willing to swallow
the pride speak to
Kenyans on how we can improve our education system we shall
remain
just like that.
We need to unite as Kenyans and build this great nation of
ours that
we were allocated by the British Colonialists