Since the year began, I have been to many educational institutions across the country and beyond in an endeavor anchored that can be summarized as "Transforming Africa, A Mind after Another". But is it true that transformation will be seen in Africa very soon? No, I don't think so.
I have visited many High Schools, ranging alphabetically from Alliance Girls in Kiambu to Tartara Girls in Kapenguria ( and more still lined up) armed with a message of Transformation and utmost exploitation of the powers that are bestowed in the mind of an African Child. But as I traveled, I came to realize that the Chinese can build the Superhighway to Thika and a Standard Gauge Railway to the Capital City but no highways of intellectual discourse and transformation have been constructed. That means, as much as we can change in lifestyle and move places, we have no highway to access mental transformation.
Look here,
when you find a person who "throws" his son in school and never bothers
to know the progress, you see a person with a plastic idea of
education. When a student is in school to finish, not to learn and
replace stupidity with wit, because your parent is in the payroll, or
business, you see a product nearing expiry.
When you see teachers who abscond classes to operate Probox and motorcycle businesses during their work time, you see an unethical professionalism. When church sponsored schools see the institution as a source of tithes and free schooling for their kids, you see a parasitic parentage. And ironically, when results show the dark side of the coin, these are the first ones to cast stones of blame.
It may sound like Juvenalian satire but there are issues. Back in my home place,my team is facing a chang'aa problem that is slowly eating into the success of the innocent school children. And surprisingly, the administration, instead of being part of the solution, it joins thugs of development and transformation, in the populist endeavor to be liked. And again, no inspiration from anyone, even those you expect it from in coming forth. Have we accepted to die the sorry death of "Intellectual and transformational death"
If the mind is not changed, we are still in the dark times where transformation is regarded as poison. And so, will The Ignition Talks save a thing or two, if not minds? Will my Actuarial Studies be useful in any mitigating this Risks? Will my Life Contingencies formulas make me relevant to the problem in this society? Is there any other mind that is inspired to change the world? If so, where are you? Can u stand up and be counted? Hey, the world will expire if we motivators sleep?
#ConcernedThoughts
When you see teachers who abscond classes to operate Probox and motorcycle businesses during their work time, you see an unethical professionalism. When church sponsored schools see the institution as a source of tithes and free schooling for their kids, you see a parasitic parentage. And ironically, when results show the dark side of the coin, these are the first ones to cast stones of blame.
It may sound like Juvenalian satire but there are issues. Back in my home place,my team is facing a chang'aa problem that is slowly eating into the success of the innocent school children. And surprisingly, the administration, instead of being part of the solution, it joins thugs of development and transformation, in the populist endeavor to be liked. And again, no inspiration from anyone, even those you expect it from in coming forth. Have we accepted to die the sorry death of "Intellectual and transformational death"
If the mind is not changed, we are still in the dark times where transformation is regarded as poison. And so, will The Ignition Talks save a thing or two, if not minds? Will my Actuarial Studies be useful in any mitigating this Risks? Will my Life Contingencies formulas make me relevant to the problem in this society? Is there any other mind that is inspired to change the world? If so, where are you? Can u stand up and be counted? Hey, the world will expire if we motivators sleep?
#ConcernedThoughts
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