EDUCATION FOR WHAT-to brag? -
08-19-2008, 11:04 AM
According to a Concise Oxford dictionary I have here education involves "..Bringing up of the young, in systematic instruction, development of character or mental powers.."It is my humble opinion that we did/do not receive any education to speak of.
Why do we need white kaburus from SA to manage our railway system-then later discover that they are no better at management skills?Or Uchumi supermarkets. Where are all the Black African MBAs ?
Why do they/we wait around in fancy hotels getting lectures and power point presentations on the latest catch phrases coming out of the “development industry” like "structural adjustments", “poverty reduction strategies", “sustainable development”, appropriate technology”, “private-public partnerships” and then bombard ordinary Africans with such terms that signify zero (for them but millions for the in-crowd).
They must mean zero, surely this-big phrases because I don’t see much material well-being to speak of:
Food-most Kenyans are undernourished and many are starving
Shelter-we have the biggest slums in the continent to start of, live alone the mud huts in rural areas,
Clothing-women buying second-hand bras & panties from the west and men wearing t-shirts with slogans so strange they could be martian!
Don’t our technocrats have any paradigms based on their own research in ground zero that are relevant and not from chicago? How is that we wait for one jeffrey sachs to come and tell us how to eradicate poverty?Telling us about mosquito nets laced with insecticide?
Now the rage is micro-finance this and that. What are those micro-businesses selling? Things made from china, europe etc!
An economic system starts with technology then production- not trade or service.
There will never be heavy industrial development through micro business/finance and the world bank knows it. Why are our NGO experts pretending otherwise?
How is it that we cant dig up our own minerals eg titanium in the coast, oil in isiolo yet we brag that we are the most educated Africans around?
What are our scientists/engineers doing-these are the people Africa needs for material development. They don’t have enough guts to build cars, ships, engines, without their white teachers/employers! The best of these run off to sustain the west.
Why do we wait to watch say, er.. angelina jolie or harrison ford and loudly recommend that all who haven’t watched that piece of irrelevant rubbish is “square”. Look at Kenyan TV full of foreign content. Where are all our trained story-tellers? At least the Nigerians are miles ahead here. Don’t we have any stories worth telling? Why do we just dish out jobs to England with our stupid shameful obsession with the English premier league?
Why are we still so superstitious, waiting, praying, kneeling for white fairy tale oppressor gods from england/jerusalem and mecca to save us from this misery?
We are programmed to consume everything from out and produce nothing-except flowers and tea and beer to make us stupid drunk every Friday. Even these are owned by outsiders and their black African fronts….......
Singapore, a mere island the size of just a few football pitches with no titanium is way up there in material development. South Korea. These countries were poorer than Kenya 40 yrs ago! They don’t go crawling & waiting for white jesus or allah. They apply science to life's problems-reverse engineer, beg, borrow steal technology for their people..
In short, I conclude that the education we receive(d) is pretty useless for building Africa. We are just a bunch of puffed up senior clerks and pseudo-intellectuals.
Consider the definition of education again I think what we got/get is systematic destruction of young minds in their character and mental development. It is self-evident.
Some low-level black (educated)“thinkers” have over the past few years speculated on the benefits of recolonization!
As if the present condition is any different from colonial times for most Black Africans!
Science & Technology and far less mysticism be it white gods or other silly superstitions. As a Kenyan you must demand this. Read Singapore story by Lee Kuan Yew….
Its a tough road ahead. Escapism is not the way out.
Last edited by Realistik Dreamer : 08-19-2008 at 11:09 AM.
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