In when education becomes indoctrination, an essay published by The
Guardian Newspaper on the 3rd and 4thof November 2015,
true education was defined as: “the development of the mind and
the whole being through learning and putting to work what was learnt” according to the writer, truly
educated people are said to be: “people that are
original, resourceful and creative, who dream dreams and think out of the box
to attain their dreams and fulfill their passions. They are those that acquire
the type of education that liberate their passions and help them to reach their
set goals…”
In a society where some form of creativity and technicalities are crippled and relegated because we have been
made to believe only failures do them. In a society where a skillful
hairdresser is judged by his/her inability to solve mathematics and young
persons’ intelligence are judged by their
inability to pass universities entrance examinations. In a society where only
one institution of learning is recognized; without which we are seen as
uneducated.
In a society where eloquence in
English and other foreign languages is the measure of intelligence and being
university student is the measure of excellence. How do we acquire true education?
We let our brains deep sleep and expect others to think for us, our lack of
initiative and self-esteem makes us to believe whatever was passed down to us
by the whites without checking if they are good for us or not. How can we be
made to believe that out of all institutions of learning through which we can
be educated and made relevant in the society, only one must be recognized? We
are like sheep led to slaughter; our inability to check packages passed down to
us is our vault.
