Thread by @wmnjoya

Early specialization in the education system is called one word.

ARISTOCRACY.

This idea that it's good to decide to be a cook when you are 6 years old came from the British class system through colonialism. The basic idea is that if you're born a hustler, you die a hustler.

https://twitter.com/OlindPaul/status/1359196221894754305

In the Cruikshank's "British Beehive" of the 19th century, the idea was that people were born into careers, rather than chose them. The purpose of exams was not for intelligence but to determine the 3% who would escape their social status at birth. bl.uk/collection-ite…

That system arrived here in Kenya as colonialism. The best schools with the most resources were for wazungu, the next layer for Asians, and the bottom for Africans. Africans did more exams than the other upper levels so as to limit their progression.

That's been returned by CBC.

Exams are designed for 97% to fail. So people saying that some guys cannot pass exams are saying bs. People are supposed to fail exams, then the government pretends it's a problem of intelligence rather than limited access so that the rich can always rule.

So that idea that 1) some people are not gifted to pass exams and 2) they should be slotted in their station in life when they're below 18 years old, is a very racist and a dangerous idea. Unless you are in the 1%, you should not be entertaining it.

As human beings, we have the right to reinvent ourselves as long as we're alive. If we want to start medical school at 55, that's our right. We need is a system of education that is flexible enough to learn and adjust, not a system that makes you choose a career when you're 14.

I say this with no fear of contradiction: every justification for CBC, like talent, specialization, 4th industrial whatever, were colonial lies that were said about African education during colonial rule. All of them.

Visit #MaishaKazini to see why. youtube.com/c/maishakazini