EDUCATION
They say,education is the key to success,others say that it gives 'you' knowledge. All i know is,knowledge is power as this was my primary school motto.
Remembering this motto generates many questions than answers in my head but the more I increase the scope and scale of my consciousness the better I am able to ask the right questions, and for every answer I get, a hundred new questions pop up, showing the infinite possibilities of my quest and thirst. - one of the greatest and mind troubling question that I have asked myself for the longest is, WHAT IS THIS SO CALLED EDUCATION? I know having basics of educating is every persons desire, our country kenya makes it a criminal offence for those guardians who deprive their kids the right to basic education.
But do we really know what this so called education is all about in details? After those countless hours of searching myself and disconnecting from the world, I realised this, having gone through the whole Kenyan education system, I wasn't going to do something out there in the world all I was going to do is follow existing systems. This is because our entire education system is built around rewarding people for obedience and compliance and not individual expression, independent things or creation of new ideas.
As an incredibly talented young person, I knew very well that fulfillment in life does not come from material things but it comes from emotional things like people, relationships, and inner knowledge not the knowledge we were all taught that is powerful(anyway everyone has his/her own view angle). Furthermore in schools we were never taught about emotional resilience, all we were pampered with were algebraic and balancing equation formulas that could not fulfil our lives and make us significant.
I could have been upset with the whole learning idea but I did not take the bait because I knew very well that it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not to have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. This brings me to the issue of all graduates who cry out to our government for employment opportunities while in the real sense according to my birds' eye perspective all they did was not to prepare for an opportunity while they were undergoing their training in the various institutions of higher learning, but they are not to be blamed, why am i saying this? It's simply because of the corrupted education system that we as Kenyans have, all we are equipped with are examination grades without the necessary skills needed by the outside world. (But if you have "connections" that will be completely a different theory as you will surely enjoy the fruits of your 'fake' education)
As Einstein said, imagination is everything because it is the preview to lifes' coming attractions. But the greatest challenge we are facing as todays' generation is lack of or insufficient imagination attributed by our own education system because I believe if we all had a great imagination power, no one in this great, blessed and resourceful motherland Kenya will ever cry of unemployment because we would always find ways of winning by doing what we love.
In conclusion, I would advocate for creativity and great imagination for they are the backbone of all the developments we have experienced as the large community of the world. I strongly believe in absence of this two you would not be reading this.
Let's all reward, appreciate and encourage creativity and great imagination.
Yours trusted Mwaura Ezekiel N