By Dr Bundi Karau
Teachers, please answer me.
I have been to many schools, and I always ask students what time they do their own private reading.
It seems times have changed. In almost all schools, remedial teaching starts very early, sometimes before 5am. In some schools, even the short break after lunch is taken up for teaching. This goes on at night, and teachers sign off at 9pm.
Over weekends, you hear of maths or chemistry hour, and all the Saturday and Sundays are spent with teachers.
The syllabus is covered very early, but these students will not have a moment to reflect on their own lives and improve on their own.
During our days, and it's long time ago, most of these hours were spent alone. Those who could improve did so on their own. We figured our own ways, and I saw guys do a good job at it.
Pray, if this be the trend, when does someone realize I'm not good in something and I need my own time and effort to sort it out?
And in the end, won't we bring forth a generation that can't stand to be counted?
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