You are done with your university education, but it doesn’t feel like you’d have missed anything if you hadn’t made it there.
But then your parents and teachers did encourage you to study hard, go to university and become someone in society.
Now you have the papers, and every day the dream of getting a job wanes, become hazy and disappears in the horizon.
Some guy in the village has three motorbikes, has built a house, and about to buy his first car.
He never went beyond form four. What happened to you, the learned one?
Education simply killed you. Here are the things it kills;
1.Mother tongue
If you went to schools that had the infamous disc, then you know the struggle of communication.
And not only communicating but communicating in this colonialist language called English.
The punishment you had to endure scarred you for life, to a point where you even hated why you were born an African, speaking Kalenjin.
That’s one of the things that this system kills – pride in our mother tongues.
2.Dreams
There’s only one way to judge someone’s success in life: how far he went with his education.
Most people value university so much that whoever fails to get to that level is automatically branded a failure.
This kills dreams, and most youths get discouraged.
3.Curiosity
The moment that apple (or whatever the fruit it was) fell on Isaac Newton, he immediately became curious as to why it didn’t go up.
Now we have Newton’s law of gravity.
Our education system simply regurgitates this information, failing to teach us how to be curious about the environment.
4.Time
One time you sat down with a friend and philosophized about education.
Those who haven’t stepped into the university would not know how much time we wasted doing some courses.
Year in year out, you are taught about theories that you can never apply anywhere in life.
Not even to bargain with that cop demanding a five hundred shilling bribe.
5.Creativity
The education system should be a haven where creativity is nurtured.
However, the most creative guys are not the ones who have gone to the university.
Many of the people who went to the university if not all, hawk their academic certificates from one office to another, looking for jobs.
A form four dropout on the other end will be out there making planes.
It is great that the new curriculum has been put in place. Let's wait and see what it will turn students into.
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