Eastafricanstandard Newspaper

Eastafricanstandard Newspaper

Eastafricanstandard Newspaper

Posted on: December 30, 2011 - 7:55 am
by Admin

“In business and in life, you either choose to make money or to make sense”, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller.

Each second, the world gets more sophisticated. There is rapid evolution in technology, fashion, business and nearly everything that we use. Well it still amazes me how fast our world is realizing the potential it posses yet the school system still sits on the old beliefs while at the same time calling itself “the key to life”. To me, the school system is a perfect key to employment. The school system has feared change and continues manufacturing the same industrial aged “specialized human – robots” and at the same time terming the “imperfect” robots failures.

The East African Standard newspaper has been writing on the number of people who proceed to the university each year. In the year 2010, three hundred and fifty eight thousand hopeful students sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam. This is a good number to be yearning for education. What is annoying is that only twenty thousand people were to be supported by government in public universities. This is only 5.5866% of people coming out of the school system in that year to serve the nation yet 94.423% are termed as failures and thrown to the pits by the same government they put in place. Is this really making sense? Is the school system manufacturing failures or scholars?

It is usually funny when you listen to people talking of what they want to be in life. While many people deny it, most of them go to school to be rich in future. It is ironical that even though many people went to school, only a chosen few, who were not even bright in school, become rich. This is where the rule of the vital few applies. The rule states that in life 80% of the people make 20% of the money yet 20% of the people make 80% of the money (if reasoned through this angle). But what makes only 20% to make 80% of the money? Well, I think these 20% always keep in mind is how to make sense. It is evident that people who go to school to make money in future do not know that you have to make sense. They forget this is a “we” world where you only prosper helping others. They even forget that to make money you have to always work hard. Most of these people work hard earlier in life thinking that they will relax in future. Well, if you are among these people, all I can tell you is that you will sit back and relax then wonder why there no future for you. There is no world without hard work always. So, prepare fellow, you are working hard to work harder.

Everybody always wants to be somebody in society. The school system teaches us how we can be that somebody. How we can beat others in everything and make them failures. This shows how this system introduces the failures – winner mentality in the society. This shows how this system programs people to only know a world of limited resources. The system continues yelling, “In life, we either win or lose”. “Well this is why we are here. We were not put in the world with the same geniuses the school system wants everyone to have. We are not here to fight verbal – linguistically. We are here to move together as humans and share the mental geniuses granted to us so that we can move the earth forward.

In this generation, people want everything for themselves forgetting about the larger sense. People have also learnt to deny what they really are after. Most of them call money evil yet they are doing something to get more money for themselves and their families. People call the rich selfish when they cannot even show what they themselves have done so as to be called generous. They have chosen neither to make money nor sense but no sense. The question we should always ask ourselves is how making no sense will save the world. How can we move forward when everybody is fighting for that one job created by someone else? Why don’t we strive to make more jobs now that people have stopped reasoning, but continue thinking linearly towards job security?

One annoying thing is when your boss earns more than you when you have more education than him/her. It is equally annoying that the same boss helps the world more than you do and that he/she can determine your destiny. Why should you help one person in an hour when you can use the powerful tool of leverage to help more than a hundred individuals in a minute? Why make money per the month while the company or person you work for makes double the money in a minute? We have to start reasoning exponentially and not linearly. This school system has been around for more than two hundred years. While it has helped and produced some great people, it has largely produced more failures. This system has proved to be adding more problems to the world than eliminating them. We have to start thinking of how we can top up to the knowledge given to us from this system. Not only that, we have to yearn to always make sense in this world. Why should we continue being preached to by the same people who don’t even know what they are saying? This is just the same as taking pedophiles to teach elementary school kids sex education. We trust those who do not trust themselves.

As I was passing through Robert T. Kiyosaki’s work, I was attracted by his view about the origin of school the system. He says that the school system was formed in Prussia in a time when royalty ruled. During the time, there were already leaders and important people. The much needed people were employees such as engineers and soldiers who would serve the leaders and the important individuals. The school system was then created with a mission of producing soldiers and engineers and any other employee that would be loyal to the royal family. This is what still goes on. This proves why you can’t be in the “royal family” of today when you still think and reason like an employee. The picture is clear enough to note that people go to school for different reasons. Some go there to be royals and make sense while others go to “impress the world”. Well, take care not to be impressed.

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