Education light of my life!

As we approach mid year I thought I'd take time and just shift my focus away to what this blog is about and make room for something out of the usual. I found myself pondering about the future of this beautiful country of ours and where we are heading and no I am not talking our president. That is an issue for another day.


This is one issue that is close to my heart and I personally think it is in jeopardy that would our education system. I fail to understand why is it acceptable for South African children to be disabled at this point in our democratic society. For the living being in me I could not imagine how is like being a matriculant of this education system where standards are being to lowered in order to accommodate those who are not able to attain them. As much as this is said to be a solution it is nothing but a magma waiting to explode, a catastrophe in the making.

One does not need Isaac Newton's brain to comprehend that we have serious issues in our hands, the question is what are we doing wrong, why are we taking so long to be where we should be as a nation, particularly with regards to our education system. One wonders if we really do understand the long term effects this could have on our future generation.

Mampela Ramampela in her book titled conversations with my sons and daughters refers to this as "wastage of human and intellectual resources resource that should be applied to enhancing our ability to grow our economy” This year alone R232.5 billion is allocated in bettering our education, this is biggest allocation of the nations budget. We can allocate billions of rands in our education but if we do not have the correct brains behind it we are simply wasting resources.

We need to close the gap between public and private schools by adopting and implementing a system that works, a curriculum that feeds young minds in order to be well developed and independent thinkers. Most importantly we need to an education system that does not make one feel like a second class citizen when standing next to a matriculant of a privileged school, but an education system that enable us to participate in the economy of our country in order to develop all our citizens.