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Sunday, 22 February 2009 22:54 |
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Page 1 of 3  Picture by: www.bigphoto.com | The custodian of the gates of knowledge feels hard done by, this ungrateful Government is hell bent on making the teaching profession extinct. And so the custodian has opted to shut the gates until the government reaches back into its pocket and parts with a few more bucks from its seemingly fat wallet.
| | To cap it all, University lectures have threatened to join their counterparts in a show of solidarity. Even more pronounced are the hunger pangs bellowing out from the inward belly of the nation, which threaten to drown the feeble voice of the classroom custodian. Yet again survival is for the fittest but the fittest are not necessarily the first to the gain favor. The Government’s pockets do not run deep (after all someone in the Government seems to have “misplaced” a few million bags of maize and so funds must be sought to make up for the deficit) thus the Government is torn between quelling hunger and appeasing the teacher. |
| The teacher is adamant that he has worked tirelessly to educate this thankless Nation and much of the “progress in the nation” is owed to his profession. Is it really? In answering this, one may enquire as to whether the simultaneous occurrence of the teacher’s strike and the famine are mere coincidence or fate. In other words, can a society that has never learnt to feed itself consider itself a knowledgeable society, perhaps on the evidence of diminishing illiteracy rates and burgeoning literati? |  | | The places available for higher education are scarce and everyone seems to think that higher education is the only means of escape from the drudgery of tilling the soil. To curl the numbers on the upward drift, the education systems introduces many barriers and hurdles to its victims as they have to read many things, from Shakespeare to beekeeping, and pass many a test. Thus academic institutions are turned into cramming schools and this brand of education holds sway all the way to the tertiary level. The few survivors get a chance to bask in the glory of “white collar jobs” while the rest return to the dust, as it were, to eke a living from agricultural subsistence and other forms of manual labour. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 February 2009 01:35 )
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