Musician A Pass has shared his thoughts on Uganda’s education system. Read his Facebook post in full below.
“#UgandasEducationSystemIsDeadAlready
It’s about your mindset in the real world, you have to be remarkable and unique not a memory card. But the system teachers as to memorize information.
How i wish we had focused education in our country…. why do you tell students to do things all by themselves and then put them in the real world and say cooperate !!!
“NO ONE IS GIVING YOU A JOB BECAUSE YOU MEMORISED NAPOLEON”
School should teach how to figure out things___ You can not measure someones productivity basing on how many facts they have memorised. Put them in a position where they can fail because this is the real world. These degrees of yours and papers don’t map to anything in the real world. I know very well there are so many people in our society that value education. Sure, education is expensive, but living in a world of ignorance is more expensive.
Trust me Grades are an illusion…. passion is reality.
Guys Fitting in is a short term strategy to get you no where, Standing out is a long term strategy that takes courage and produces results. You have to get dirty get angry and use what you got to be a success because a degree is not enough these days.
We are trained in school to spend time reading fiction, but we end up being trained never to read again for fun. Most student leave school saying I have survived books. The goal is to change what we get when we are sent to School.
‘You Don’t Have To Memorise These Words'”
Staff Writer