Thread by @wmnjoya

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

The same thing for "digital learning." What parents were hearing was "my kids will get exposed to computers early," but what CBE promoters meant was "we'll sell computers and software to African governments to replace their teachers and also make money." #CBCmustfall

What that meant was that the promoters didn't care whether kids could learn on their own from computers. It didn't matter that research already said that kids need a human teacher to guide their learning, computers or not. #CBCmustFall

Education reform and competency based education are the greatest hoaxes of this era, next to Jesus Christ taking us to heaven or colonialism being a civilization mission. What its proponents mean is not what you are hearing them say. It's psychological manipulation. #CBCmustFall

It took me a playlist to explain that manipulation, because the mainpulation is so effective. Reformers pick words like "talent," "skills" or "individual attention" which most parents want. But the words don't mean what you think they mean #CBCmustFall

"Parental invovlement" came from the logic of covering up. If the education doesn't work, they'll say the problems come from the kids' homes. This is an old trick in the book that started in the 80s, when Reagan was gutting down social cushions for black kids. #CBCmustfall

Basically, the underlying message was that black families are too dysfunctional to educate their kids. Of course they didn't mention that part when 700 club and "Focus on the family" were appealing to middle class Kenyans. #CBCmustfall

If you see me doing a whole youtube channel, it's because I saw that CBC is based on layers upon layers of misconceptions about work, knowledge, economy and even love and parenting. The real parental involvement is to take time to listen to hours of my explanations. #CBCmustfall

If this CBC thing ends, and I hope it does, the one thing we must learn is that education must be jealously guarded. Very jealously. This thing of teachers and education lecturers being the ones who couldn't get medicine and engineering must be a thing of the past. #CBCmustFall

Education schools need the most committed Kenyans who believe in education, not Kenyans who lacked a job elswhere. We need Kenyans who can tell any foreigner lurking around Jogoo House "#Handsoffourkids"

#CBCMustfall

The way we said "Hands off the constitution" is the same way we have to say #Handsoffourkids. The essence of being human, of being Africans, is to nurture our kids like lionesses and not let anyone come with frivolous reform proposals. #CBCmustFall