Date Posted: 10/31/2012 7:51:25 AM
Posted By: Stefan Membership Level: Bronze Total Points: 23
Nobody told us. Maybe they did not know either. But nobody told us that fulfillment and success are usually the results of doing what comes naturally or what one loves. They told us that education and brilliance were the only keys to success. So much so that if you could not solve an equation to save your life, you pretty much believed you would not amount to much.We thought about this when the KCSE results were released months ago and we, as a country and as a school fated the top students, whose hard work and studiousness had finally paid off. Yet in a column next to all these success stories was a feature about the faceless hundreds of thousands, who were to miss entry in public universities. Fortunately some of these will be absorbed by private universities, but for those few days doom and gloom descended on numerous homes in the country due to these more than stellar academic performances.Our education system has been accused of being more focused on academics at the expense of the overall development of the child. It barely takes into account individual strengths and gifts, more interested in taking in a mass group at one end and churning out academic genius at the other. Those who fall by the way, fall by the wayside. In so doing, many less academically brilliant students may have their self-esteem destroyed never realizing that while one chapter may have ended the book of life for most of these students was only the prologue.
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