| My experience around Africa and in some parts of the | | | | societies from us. |
| world is that nowadays nobody is teaching our children | | | | They should be prepared to know that from age 12 or |
| our ways. There are no conscious efforts to have our | | | | as soon as is practicable, they should be start making |
| children get the right type of education that would | | | | a living and start saving for their education and other |
| ensure that they have a chance to survive, not to talk | | | | voluntary services or for supporting the family. This is |
| of thriving. We have even lost the only basic element | | | | irrespective of the wealth or riches already existing in |
| that is part of the colonially bequeathed education - | | | | the family. |
| integrity. What we are concerned about today is to | | | | They should be taught the importance of reading and |
| get our children to pass examinations and get paper | | | | writing down their experiences, maintaining journals of |
| qualification. | | | | all their activities, experiences, feelings, thoughts and |
| For this purpose, parents have bought certificates for | | | | events in the life of their family and the community. |
| their children; they have arranged to have other people | | | | They should be taught very early in life to love |
| write examinations for their children. The latest in | | | | studying the scriptures and other motivational books so |
| vogue now is to arrange and pay money to | | | | that they can gain wisdom required for relationships, |
| unscrupulous school teachers and other special | | | | associations, team building, networking etc, required for |
| classes to arrange for "special centres" for their | | | | a wholesome community living in this day and age. The |
| children to write examinations where answers are | | | | opportunities are limitless. |
| written down for them on the board. | | | | Money is a critical element in human interaction. Money |
| The above is the reason we have university | | | | is used to create wealth. It is surprising that our people |
| graduates who are armed robbers and kidnappers | | | | spend between 12 and 16 and sometimes 20 years in |
| because they cannot afford to survive in the real | | | | schools and are not taught a single thing about how to |
| world as soon as they left schools. In most African | | | | create or accumulate wealth. As a result, our people |
| cities today, there is no chance of survival for those | | | | come into living and do nothing except to "pursue |
| who had only secondary school education. This is | | | | money". This is the bane of our society today. This is |
| because; they merely got poor reading and writing skills | | | | why our children are taking to crime as a sign that |
| for the period they spent in schools. | | | | they are smart. This is why 'our leaders' or those who |
| To survive in this world today, and this is would be | | | | masquerade as such only loot the treasury. It is all |
| more complex tomorrow, we need life skills education | | | | because they never learned how to create or |
| and personal development. While life skills would | | | | accumulate wealth. They think wealth could be stolen. |
| ensure that we have the capacity to provide service | | | | Being fools, they perish with the money they looted |
| to others and get paid doing so, personal development | | | | from the public treasury and the treasury of their |
| would ensure that our mind and heart and mental | | | | organizations. |
| faculties are developed to be able to think and create | | | | With life skills education and personal development, we |
| products, programmes, ideas and services that would | | | | would engender an evolutionary trend that would |
| enhance the quality of our lives. | | | | make this world answer the end of its calling and |
| What is being advocated here is that from secondary | | | | glorify the name of God, our Creator. |
| school level or as early as they can handle it, our | | | | People in our own generation and the current |
| children should be thought how to produce food, even | | | | generation have lost it. But we can ensure that our |
| if you are living in the cities this can still be thought with | | | | children do not lose it also by providing these two |
| backyard gardens or hanging plants in baskets and | | | | types of education for them. |
| pots right inside your rooms or by the wall. They should | | | | What do you think? Do you have ideas and strategies |
| be thought how and why to provide service to other | | | | to achieve this idea? |
| people. They should be thought house/home operation | | | | If you would like to get help in the daunting task of |
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| cooking, sanitation, etc. This is one of the major things | | | | personal transformation and development and wealth |
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