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How much of Ja's budget is allocated for education?
When will these people get it that education is now akin
to national security. Ja cannot navigate the info age like
this; the concept of having an elite few getting an education is over.
I was speaking with another Jakan a month ago and we agreed that
the present education system of Ja is writing off some the brightest
and innovative minds in the island. Why? How or who are you to
determine a child's potential at twelve or thiteen years of age? If a
child doesn't make it to a traditional high school, he/ she is being
stigmatized as being worthless. I can recall when I was in school
in the states; a professor said he is not interested in the A student
as they will go on to be professors, he is more interested in the C
student as they will go out form a corporation become millionaires
and donate a million to the math dept.
Let's look at what our innovative minds are doing relative to the
education that they have received: Scamming. We can pretty much
judge the education level also in Somalia (piracy with small boats).
On the flip side a kid attends a vocational school (not College, pay
attention) in the Phillipines and was able to write a code (worm) that
disrupted the net. Now I'm not saying the youth of Ja should strive to
write codes that will disrupt the net but instead be on par or even be
better than their conter parts in Asia. Please do not come to me with
the NCU/microsoft story. This is what Ja needs to overcome : these
individual and isolated cases.
It's high time the people demand quality education above all, from the
govt (regardless of which political party). At present Ja can ill afford
to continue with the plantocracy approach to governance.
When will these people get it that education is now akin
to national security. Ja cannot navigate the info age like
this; the concept of having an elite few getting an education is over.
I was speaking with another Jakan a month ago and we agreed that
the present education system of Ja is writing off some the brightest
and innovative minds in the island. Why? How or who are you to
determine a child's potential at twelve or thiteen years of age? If a
child doesn't make it to a traditional high school, he/ she is being
stigmatized as being worthless. I can recall when I was in school
in the states; a professor said he is not interested in the A student
as they will go on to be professors, he is more interested in the C
student as they will go out form a corporation become millionaires
and donate a million to the math dept.
Let's look at what our innovative minds are doing relative to the
education that they have received: Scamming. We can pretty much
judge the education level also in Somalia (piracy with small boats).
On the flip side a kid attends a vocational school (not College, pay
attention) in the Phillipines and was able to write a code (worm) that
disrupted the net. Now I'm not saying the youth of Ja should strive to
write codes that will disrupt the net but instead be on par or even be
better than their conter parts in Asia. Please do not come to me with
the NCU/microsoft story. This is what Ja needs to overcome : these
individual and isolated cases.
It's high time the people demand quality education above all, from the
govt (regardless of which political party). At present Ja can ill afford
to continue with the plantocracy approach to governance.
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