3. Education System
What is the importance of education if in the end you are stock a pile of certificates and remain poor or mentally enslaved to only one thing? Job seeking.
Education System of Africans is actually the worst to say the least. People are taught employee’s mind not the employer’s mind. As we speak right now we’re all waiting for the government to stand up and say “Bring your certificates my people I’ve created jobs for you.” Some are even dreaming of this white guy from America to say, “Hey, You got a passport? Cool, let’s go get a visa we’re leaving Africa for L.A next month, I got a perfect job for you.”
This is what we’re living in because our education system is more of theory than practical aspect. There’s is less emphasis on skills training while still at school and more emphasis on getting As and Bs, no wonder there’s drill learning. Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind.”
There’s one time I went to our local councillor with my brother and we asked him to help us get the youth centre so that we can train children from our community coding skills. The response I got from him went like,
“Hahaha. Do you know what you’re talking about? This course is for people who who’re at University level not the level you’re talking about. It’s too hard for them. You’re wasting your time.”
Two months later I got a 11 years and 12 years old designing websites in HTML5 and CSS3. They can tell you all the tags they’re using and what they mean. They’re even doing projects outside coding and use coding as a motivational activity.
I realised that our elders think for the young ones and assume what they can and can’t based on what they managed and failed to do. Practical skills are the most essential skills one can ever get and make them a better person.
Our education does the first 2, hearing and seeing but very little of doing. The reason being that there’s very little investment towards educational material. Some rural school even today do not have computers in this digital age in time, even some high density town schools too don’t have any.
Albert Einstein says education is what remains when we’ve forgotten everything else learnt at school. People usually forget what they hear and/or see but what they went through or did themselves they do not. It remains vivid in their minds. However our education emphasises the hearing and seeing part then they use certificates to certify the practical skill.
What do you think about the African education system towards empowering an African child?
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