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Re-Education

these words “Instead of buying your
children all the things you never had, you
should teach them all the things you were
never taught. Material wears out but
knowledge stays.”

There is no better way put it than
the way Bruce Lee put it. It is
foolishness at best to think that the
most important thing you can give
to a child is what you were not giv-
en. Why is that? Children only know
what they want based on their nat-
ural desires, and not what they need
to make them deep and conscious
humans. With all the foolish things
we do and give our children, we are
at best raising shallow humans who
do not have the capacity to under-
stand that life is way deeper and
higher than what the five senses can
pick up or interpret. And it will be a
is different and that is what we must not speak of what we call learning great disservice to the future if we
go for. Afrika’s development cannot in formal schools, even though that do not do something about the di-
be taken away from the context of is also important; but teaching and rection we are heading in right now.
Ubuntu. Any form of development training that inputs in the subcon- It is in our power to make changes,
that does not give priority to the scious level of a child a sense of and we need to do so now.
needs and pains of others, is noth- dignity, integrity, love, honor, hon-
ing but a ticking time bomb. And esty, hard work and respect for self The most beautiful thing about
surely, it will explode in time. and others. Why is this important as teaching children good values and
a direction of training and teaching ideals is that, it does not need a par-
The future is coming that we must show our children? A ent or parents with master’s degrees.
Are you aware that in the next large percentage of the people that It just needs hearts that see life
few decades, Afrika will be home are in positions that are ruining our from a divine perspective, and not
to seventy percent of the world’s beloved continent, through corrup- shallow thoughts. In fact, the more
young people? Imagine if that large tion and all manner of mindless the degrees, the less effective the
amount of young people are not actions, went to some of the best teaching of values is to those who
raised to live with integrity, love, schools all over the world. Especial- gather those degrees to themselves.
kindness and our Ubuntu; that is a ly the ones from rich families and And the reason is simple; The
disaster waiting to happen. And that who apparently are mostly the ones educational system that created the
is what we must begin to work to we have in our leadership positions curriculum that made those degrees
fix before it is too late. The future is which they got through godfathers was created not for teaching values,
coming but are we ready for it? and families. Meaning that for- but for teaching how to kill or be
mal school is useful for teaching killed, which is very alien to the au-
We all must do all that is required to the brains of children to think of thentic Afrikan way of living which
raise our children to think, act and solutions, by any means possible, is for the good of all. If it were not
live as true Afrikans, with dignity, including negative things. But the so, the white man that created such
honor for others and self-respect. teaching that targets the heart of a education would not be using it for
The world we are in right now is too child and steers him or her towards exploiting others and destroying
deep in corruption, wrong influ- being a better person for the good whatever he cannot have or stealing
ences and bad choices to leave our of all, that we must give priority. from others. So, teach an Afrikan
children untaught and untrained. child today and raise and Afrikan
And by teaching and training, I do It is on record that Bruce Lee said icon tomorrow.

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