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18 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Wonderful @BBCAfrica! We know this story. Prince WIlliam has his peeps in Laikipia, so you can't go reporting the truth about Kenya. You owe the Kenya government one.

Little of what @WaihigaMwaura says about 8.4.4 is true. bbc.com/news/world-afr…
And anyway, CBC is your curriculum. It sounds like the Phelps Stokes commission, it was funded by @BritishCouncil, and guys at Oxford and @DFID_UK were sponsoring the experiments on teachers.

A level (Aristocratic level) is your thing @BBCAfrica
Like I said on @theelephantinfo, the UK still has a beef with Kenya and some president from a small community (not included in your Swynnerton plan) for straying away from the British path. @BBCAfrica
God save the queen @BBCAfrica

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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
18 Sep
CBC is based on a hoax of "education reform," where tech companies and businesses adopt the progressive language of John Dewey. So they sell flowers like "individual learning" or "talent," but mean something different from what parents hear.

We have to understand: CBC is spin.
When CBC promoters say "individual learning," or "self-driven learning," what they don't tell you is that they'll sit kids in front of computers and let them learn on their own. If parents are rich enough to help, sawa. If not, then the kids are "not talented." #CBCmustfall
CBC was based on the model of Bridge Academies. The idea was to put kids in front of an untrained teacher who reads out what is on the tablet.

KICD were bureaucrats who could not understand these politics. They bought the hype. #CBCMustfall
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18 Sep
To understand the problem with #CBCKe, it seems we need a discussion on
1. difference between childhood and adulthood
2. What knowledge is and why it matters
3. The role of emotions and intimacy
4. The importance of privacy.

All these other things about jobs etc is just noise.
The fundamental difference between childhood and adulthood is social responsibility for actions whether individual or social. When kids play, they play for fun and enjoy themselves. They learn collaboration, expression and creativity.

But adults are conscious of consequences.
So when kids are playing a wedding on their own, it is very different from when adults facilitate them and watch them doing it.

Kids on their own are just having fun. After all,in real weddings, they know that they are not the bride and groom but the flower girls and page boys.
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25 Aug
People, CBC is expensive not because it requires people to buy stuff. You're being required to buy stuff to cover up the fact that CBC is based on a hollow education philosophy and teachers don't know what they are doing. To make you not notice, they distract you with trinkets.
Once you make employment more than your kids learning to read and think, the teacher has to keep requiring gadgets to make employers know that the kids can work. I've been saying that the costs of education can be brought down if we stop demanding "employment ready" graduates.
It is evil for us to expect 16 year olds to leave school "employment ready." That's child abuse. Basic education up to secondary school is for kids to learn to think, write and create. Work and CBC should be at the post-secondary school.
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24 Aug
I wondered what that performance of the president last night was about.

It was to control the narrative. He went, played the noble victim on TV, next morning, Kenya media is a symphony reducing #BBIRuling to a contest of the two main ICC suspects.

#GitheriMedia, we see you
And they have help from the Americans who, you remember, sponsored the BBI project with dollars from suffering American taxpayers.

This is @Reuters
The UK government is more suave than to interfere openly (after all, they've nailed down Kenyan kids with CBC).

But Prof Nic Cheeseman didn't miss the party. He apparently also thinks we Kenyans need alliances more than the constitution followed.
finance.yahoo.com/news/kenyan-co…
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23 Aug
Honestly, I think the state cannot address this problem. But if the bureaucrats in @EduMinKenya are serious, this is what they should do:
1. Get in touch with the family and find out how the child is. And use your perdiems to pay that hospital bill.
2. Close the school.
3. Set up a tribunal equivalent of the TJRC, not for public relations, but to investigate and document school violence. Kenya keeps up this pretense of being peaceful in the region because we traumatize our children.
4. Open the school only when a full report of what happened has been made public and we are clear what remedies have been put in place to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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23 Aug
I started reading this book a few months ago and the first chapter shocked me. Since I'm not an economist, I called a friend to ask if I'm really understanding the book correctly.

He said I had not misunderstood.

books.google.com/books/about/Un…
This is what I understood from the book.

At independence, the government had NO PLAN. I'm not lying. No plan on what to do with the 7m Kenyans then, except to go on with the British colonial plan of developing the country for the 1%.

We Africans were not in their radar.
So I asked: but my parents went to school, then I went to school. We were told that we were learning so that we could build the country. Kumbe the powers that be had no clue what they were going to do with us?

What were they thinking we would do after school?
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