Education: The people’s project :: Mmegi Online

If you ask me about the value of education, I would say it is too important. It is too valuable a commodity to be left in the hands of the rulers alone. Education should be a project of the whole society - the people’s project. But somehow a lie that gave the rulers monopoly of power and responsibility over matters of education has been hatched and nurtured for donkey years.

Tragically, without any scrutiny, the parents were sold the lie and they bought it hook, line and sinker. Consequently, parents sat comfortably in the background and watched from a distance as the rulers ran the show - mapping the future of their children. Few people, if any, saw anything untoward about this arrangement of shifting responsibility.

From a poverty point of view, it was economically expedient for parents to transfer to the governments the financial burden of educating their children. But there was a price to pay, which was, giving away the control of what goes and cannot go into the curriculum .By design, the sponsors of education and training eyed a whole world to gain from their investments.

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