- Tanzanian Education System
produces dull brains!!
- by
Munir Daya
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- The human mind has an
infinite capacity to digest information yet our educational institutions
prefer to follow a syllabus that restricts children to barely using their
brainpower.
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- The Tanzania education
system scarcely produces thinkers and while the country has produced a few
good leaders, only a few of them are an output of the local system.
Understandably lack of resources and teachers have been a drawback for
schools but modern facilities and good teachers cannot provide good thinkers
and professionals if the curriculum that we have is not amended to
accommodate creativeness and curiosity at different levels in a child.
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- Every individual can enhance
his or her brainpower if not restricted to learning tables or learning
formulas or learning age-old theories from textbooks and being asked to
remember these for examinations. Rather than being guided through notes and
text books, students need to be groomed to develop thinking from
hypothetical situations and should be judged not only by the result of their
analysis or exams but also by their ability to undertake independent study
or to analyse practical situations
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- The
current educational system we have is producing dull brains. Companies
conducting interviews for new recruits will vouch to the fact that the
quality of manpower available on the local market is poor by any standards.
The so called qualified recruits are so bigoted in their fields that they
lack communication power, ability to write or even to think rationally when
asked to solve pertinent case cases if such cases mean digressing from text
book knowledge.
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- Our
educational system strangles natural inquisitiveness thereby compelling
innocent children to a blinkered system of thinking that leaves them
unprepared to face the real world after they graduate or leave school. The
national curriculum and approach to learning needs to be candidly discussed
by educationists to ensure that we do not end up producing academic dead
brains that fail to tick when faced with real-life tribulations.