Kenya’s education system is designed to control how we think and have conversations | LNN
Kenya’s education system is designed to control how we think and have conversations | LNN
On today’s episode of LNS Rebuilding series, Dr. Wandia Njoya walks us through the origin of our education system, why CBC is a mistake, and why passing down from one generation to another becomes hard the more the systems change
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A Good round of applause applause to this incredible academician.
Lynn, the trouble or rather major hindrance in 3rd world countries is lack of administration skills and leverage more on the "TUMBOMANIAC" mission. the yesteryear 10% analogue drove 3rd world nations including Kenya worsened by the day. And if you want to understand the truth and reality of this, check how our leaders get appointed and within six months the stomachs and designer wear start emerging without shame or fear.
Today, the key driving force in governance is "PERSONAL" interests. Read, recouping the monies spent in electioneering and two, the impunity driven by "its our time to eat". It has been policised if you may. Bottom line, the interests of the larger society is never prioritised.
Now, if the government was serious in making any changes in the education system, benchmarking could have been made with priority from nations that have thrived and perfected that art for years. Like, let's say the "British system" which was imbibed to Africa by Britain, the colonial masters. Ironically, the same IGCSE is live and leading in our alternate education system. I took my children through the same. I in my school days got same education and here I am with upright and relevant wherewithal if you may. Why didn't Kenya reorganise the ever unnecessary changing curriculum to match with IGCSE for continuity sake? Today, looking at the quality of the British system referred above, the fee structure is mind boggling yet, once a child passes through that major corporates across the globe provide easy jobs for them. Is there something Kenya is nor doing right? Yes indeed!
Suppose, looking at it from the devil's eye, God forbid. If Ruto of today, as educated and sharp as he is, he could taken a deliberate decision to review the CBC in consonance with the established economies like China, Singapore, Japan, Italy and Germany, imagine the results he could have gotten? These countries are giants in the technological space. Granted, Kenya is leading in tech human resource in Africa but imagine if programs from any of these countries could have been added to upgrade our systems? Kenya will be the new frontier in the global space. But guess what, just like other presidents before him, he run short of ingenious ideas and let the quick fix do the damage to our system.
Kenya is strategically place and potentially ripe in leaping greater returns. But all that must start from infancy and all through the child development stages. We are killing a generation for our own selfish pursuits. It is sad that the cradle of human resource is slowly sliding to extinction courtesy of poor management of resources. Brain power and ingenious genes exist in kenya but the way the rare gifts are utilised and managed is wanting.
How I wish that any intentional and focused policy maker can put aside the "TUMBO" potty to diabetes and listen to the voice of wisdom starting from Dr. Wanda and a myriad of incredible educationists in kenya.
I pray that one day, one time, sanity prevails in kenya where men and women in authority can be able to visionalise agendas past 20yrs economic and social planning. I rest my case!
Anything the outsiders give to Africans is not for the benefits of Africans but for their downfall and their benefits the most important education Africans needs is critical thinking and problem solving and no outsiders will mention that because they are scared that African will realize what they are doing.
I follow Dr. Wandia Njoya religiously 🏆 The gaslighting in the education system is real .
Bring back Wandia in the future.
The conversations we need to have❤
The Bureaucracy cuts across. We are busy with the mechanics and we are not actually doing the work.
I love this interview because she is absolutely speaking my language.
What is in a title?
She is speaking the language of the actual people.
Wow 😳😳😲
We all need good education, for self awareness, understanding our environment and to challenge our limits in reality of our circumstances that are only unique to us. Education is contextual and not just general like we have imagined. This is a great discussion, very enlightening and mind provoking. Asante Lynn and Daktari
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That's why I took my son to classical education
An example is a girl remaining "the neck" so as not to seem to go against the grain of outshining the man/spouse.
The 844 system was the best
Incredible eye opener Dr.🤗🤗
This is a very rich conversation. A comment on the issue of boreholes: they cause the sinking of an area in the long term. In Indonesia, this has been documented as a real issue of an area sinking by several centimetres. Nairobi has been said to also be at risk of sinking due to the many boreholes we are digging. Taking out ground water leaves a space that is filled by the ground compacting, hence sinking. I've studied a bit of this in my natural resources studies.
I also agree with Dr. Wandia, on making sure that as we raise questions and complain (as in the case of Jacob), we should provide for solutions. I was vilified here when I made a comment here on this platform because of this Red Pill influencers who complain, but offer no practical solutions. I'm glad a great mind has spoken about it today!! I have always found Dr. Wandia is very enlightening and a great , fearless thinker.
Let me disagree. As an educator you should engage continuous learning. There is nothing like dropping the knowledge. It sounds like rote learning rather than innovating kinda learning
The unapologetic Dr Wandia Njoya..so glad to see you here.
Any Daystarian in the house?
Lynn stick to meanful stories Hizi za masomo achana nazo, bring the food stories that gives you good views
What an eye opener.
Great interview.
Learning is a process, that never stops. The world is changing and we need to change. There so many things that are present today and previously they were not there. We have to learn as changes occur. Therefore, we cannot rely on a rigid education that does not have room for changes. A system where we had to revise same books, same content for 2o years and have our learners learn the same things. We need to embrace change since it is not evitable. I is the responsibility of teachers to familiarize with the system just like the doctors familiarize themselves with new diseases.
In Mt Kenya we have a plan to teach our own in kikuyu…all ancient knowledge…in universities…everything our ancestors were doing ….this colonial things got to change
I think it is high time people embrace CBC. The curriculum is far much different from 844. The 844 was meant to enslave and limit the learners in office jobs and employment. The focus of CBC is to nurture talents and evolve a generation that can be innovative and inventive. A generation that is more technical and not theoretical. A generation that can come up with solutions and not a rigid generation that relies on the past research and thesis. A generation that reason and question, and not a generation of memorizing. It is an education system set to pioneer learners who can relate to their environment, technological changes as well as global changes and occurrences. Unlike the 844 where learners were set to work for so and so company or organization, CBC focuses on the challenges faced everyday, how to solve them, development of morals and values and how to uphold human dignity as well as personal wellbeing.
I have not finished listening to this story but i agree with her 844 was the best 😊
Dr wandia love you
CBC is the ever mistake made to education of +254
Thank you Lynn for bring this lady to this show. She is educating our children and old people too. About boreholes is true how she is saying
Very educative
Kenya kills innovation, remember when we had SAKATA, dance groups emerged then all over sudden they vanished, anything creative is killed in kenya.
Do we have liberal arts school in kenya?
My opinion 8-4-4 was crap only learnt how to memorise/cram stuff. Not guessing A B C or D. CBC gives the students the benefit of thinking out of the box.. my kids are in Gernan school and they learn all round. Critical thinking where 1 + 1 is not always 2 . Yes CBC is alittle bit expensiv but at the end of the day it will pay of.
Suppressing, controlling, brainwashing you name it, not adding value to anyone
This discussion is enlightening and the same time depressing. Especially the part of tech industry when you give your best and develop an institution you are discarded 😢
Yep and Kenya should open opportunities for everyone.