KAMA KIJANA UNAYESOMA, CHUKUA MDA WAKO ANGALIA HII VIDEO (WHY I HATE SCHOOL, BUT LOVE EDUCATION)

As the cyclical and seemingly never ending debate about education rages on, the topic - somewhat ironically, often poses more questions than it provides answers.

But what is the value of mainstream schooling? Why is it that some of the most high profile and successful figures within the Western world openly admit to never having completed any form of higher learning?

Paying homage to Jefferson Bethke's "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus", a piece that received 22 million views in the space of a week, I address a number of these issues in my offering "Why I Hate School, but Love Education".

With scores of school leavers wanting to further their education with no guarantee of their dream job at the end of it, we should ask ourselves whether qualifications still hold the same value now as they did in previous years?

Does success in the school system correlate to success in life? Or is the school system simply geared towards fact retention and regurgitation?

What is true education?

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CHUKUA MDA WAKO ANGALIA HII VIDEO WEWE KAMA KIJANA AMBAYE BADO UNASOMA: I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate||Spoken Word

A video titled "I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate" has gone viral, reducing some viewers to tears and causing others to speak about their heartbreaking experiences of the education system.

The performance is the work of spoken word poet Suli Breaks who tells the story of a mother and son who have just been to a parents' evening at school. Breaks says: "Right now, there is a kid finishing parents' evening in a heated discussion with his mother. He asks why does he have to study subjects he will never use in his life?" - to which the mother has no real answer.

Throughout his act, Breaks explores the attitudes of today's society towards young people and exams. "She will lie because she does not know any better herself," Breaks says of the mother. "Although throughout her life she has never used or applied Pythagorus' theorem, pathetic fallacy and still does not know the value of x, she will still rely on society to tell her, her child, who has one of the sharpest minds in the school, is hyperactive, unfocused, easily distracted and wayward."

"Students," Breaks continues, "How many equations, subjects and dates did you revise just before an exam never to use again?"


If you watch one thing today, make it this.

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