Thursday, January 31, 2019

Point of order!



   
 



        Being an educator and a person who deeply believes in the power of education to transform nations from one state that has gone stale to a further thriving situation. Without a deep-seated education, we will be future-less and completely in the dark.
Red signs are everywhere: Poor infrastructure, scarcity of equipment, low wages, and high rates of unemployment. How can future students believe in the power of education if students find out after years of toiling that their studies no longer serve the market demands? They are JOBLESS because their specialities do not correspond with the jobs of tomorrow?
Why shouldn't we plan to teach for future posts? Why should we always think in the present and live in the past?
                 Real educators need to be futurists, strategic planners, who not only plan ahead, but also have a future vision of what things might seem to be in future decades. Why don't we embrace compelling changes and make the most important component of our FUTURE, ie, education, , the real catalyser of socities AN URGENT NECESSITY ???




               Education is in crisis today because we never plan ahead. Education is in crisis today because we do not master the Art of communication. Education is in crisis today because we do not care about the future. We only have the intentions to act as firefighters who only have the will to extenguish the flames of the here and now. We are utterly satisfied when we put out the blaze and that's all. We are not only piling up future problems , but also discrediting the important role of education.
Adding insult to injury, we lack the very obvious skills of communicating with each other.
I have a dream Education, in my country would take up the reins and we would give much importance to strategic planning.


I have a dream that we will give much energy to keeping things in perspective.
I have a dream that we will double our investments in education.
I have a dream that we will remediate all the damage and wrongs done to Education.
I have a dream that we will improve the status of teachers, materially and morally.
I have a dream that we will treat everyone with equity and social justice.
I have a dream that we will make our classrooms cozy
I have a dream that our classrooms would give as much attention to READING as to the one given to TECHNOLOGY. None is more important. A real Balance would help our future students achieve much.
But above all,
I have a dream that all stakeholders included would be level-headed , far-sighted and perspicacious.
I have a dream that victory will be that of common sense.

                        Who is listening to me? I am not certain that there are any listeners!!!