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Adult illiteracy is increasing despite committing enormous resources to elimination of illiteracy at the basic level.
When we talk about Education For All are we really seriously saying that all people regardless of age should achieve education when in reality we are concentrating only on the primary school children? Where do illiterate adults and youth fall? Are they not supposed to fit in some form of education training empowerment? Why have they been neglected yet Kenya’s illiteracy rate stands at only 4.2 million people? Isn’t this quiet a simple figure to round it to almost a nought?
The first independent government vowed to fight three vices to nation development: illiteracy, poverty and diseases. Four decades later, they are still with us not mentioning the HIV/AIDS scourge. Illiteracy, which is the mother of the two, can be eliminated if all the stakeholders are involved not just a government department. After all, it is not the waiter who decides on what a customer to eat!
For this to be attained, education of the youth and adults should be conducted in a manner that will empower the society by integrating functional literacy to skills development and academic excellence.
Education is important at all levels. The difference is the methodology of promoting, adopting, teaching and purpose. Going back to Mzee Maruge, he should be well versed, as an older citizen, to know and devise for himself, that being a vet takes more than counting numbers one to ten.
MOEST can harmoniously include the likes of him in sound education programs, fit for his age, to facilitate an educated society that is not discriminated or sanctioned, just because our education system does not recognize their role in the development of our dear country.
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Mbũrũ
I am a researcher on educational issues especially in the rural areas, with much emphasis on girls' education.
As a trained journalist, I have a lot of concern with the handling of the education sub-sector in Kenya and take a critical role in viewing the reforms currently being conducted to integrate education structures for the sake of the youth in Kenya.
One major aspect, sadly, is that Kenya has been sovereign for over four decades but has been the only African country besides Somalia not to have made education compulsory, free and basic. For Somalia it can be understood - the country had been in civil strife since 1992- but for Kenya the politics of the day have played a negative role in reducing the promotion of education to a system sheer competition, instead of progressive
Apart from that, I write fictitious literature.
Currently I am working on prose on love and betrayal and a collection of poems.
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