Disgraceful African Education System
by Most of the African countries flooded with poverty have the same kind of system of education. Something worth noting. The setup of Primary school, Secondary school and then the Tertiary education which could be University education or College education is common. After a deep analysis of this setup, It is clear that this kind of system is not only uniform in most of the African countries but it has been used for decades without being revised to suit the demands of the new generation of children walking through it.
Why don’t we scrap of some of those years in primary school education and integrate profitable education in to it. Reintroduce business education and bring in personal development as a subject instead of that subject commonly taught in schools called Moral Education which has taught our children rebellion instead of making them responsible citizens? Why do we insist in teaching them rebellion and then cry to the West blaming them for our own mistakes? Claiming that our children watch television programs that are not helping them grow to be worthy people? Shouldn’t we teach them how to create the programs that should inject success mentality into their lives?
Shouldn’t secondary school studies involve the practical life, economics at its best, those children who desire to hit the market taught how to live in the market place while the academics start shaping their lives at this stage? Isn’t this the time to define their ways? Two years at most and the young minds will have known what they are best at, and push it all the way to prosperity. Do we have to keep them in the system for five years studying photosynthesis which they do not even desire to pursue in their later days? Of what use is that length of stay without proper definition of their destiny? Who benefits from it anyway? Two years is all I ask, and let the young soul proceed to his destiny.
Worthy children they should be. Dealing with everyday issues. Maybe even make it compulsory that a child learns how to make a profit out of selling old newspapers, coming up with projects that are profitable, exposing them to real life situations that will make these young minds open up with wealth of wisdom as they should. Every musical voice singing, every drummer drumming the beat out of his heart, every mathematician propelled to learn from the seventy year old professor the tricks of his time for wisdom is in his bones and before he bids us goodbye to leave such wisdom to these young brains?
What is the use of tertiary education if it lands the participants in more misery? The same child having spent sixteen or so years in school has no way of developing the God given talent in him. The same cannot even earn a living. A whole lot of African children do not even know the inner side of the college classroom leave alone the university gate. The education is so expensive for his parents to bear. A burden meant to discourage the young heart. The strangest thing about it all is that all these young souls are in this education system being taught how to write great resumes and nothing else. Very few if any can even start a simple business of selling home grown vegetables and make a profit out of it. What a shame! So just like they have been taught to do, they go through their studies and scuttle to the streets looking for Just-Over-Broke Social life- JOBS! Not because they are stupid but this is what the education system has taught them. Is Africa really that rich anyway? I ask.
I know you are reading this text, that is if you had the time to go to the base and get rebuked as I get rebuked too for failing to make things better for yourself and those around you, thinking “What is she doing about it?” Great! This is it, I am preaching this gospel so that you and I can brainstorm this subject and oust the fallen system of education, which Africa is clinging onto so dearly for fear of failure and being laughed at, come up with an education system that works for this generation to raise up the fallen continent.
Did you know that it is only in Africa that a fourteen year old cannot build a circuit board for a cellphone?
I could list a whole lot of what an African child cannot do, but for today, all I want is for the African child to apply what he knows for his benefit and the benefit of mankind. The African child deserves to grow his talent at a tender age not to waste his life in this misery of education system. Africa, do not waste the wealth in these young minds. Abhor the fallen system of education, its dead, its rotten, bury it!
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