.. but kids are taught all that, their critical thinking is vigorously taught in literature, they have practical sessions in labs and participate in science congress forums, they are taught social studies and for most are forced to mix with kids from other communities especially at high school level, they are introduced to some technology education from an early age especially with the school laptop thing.

No. I don't think kids are taught critical thinking when for example, they're studying literature. I think, at least, when I was in school, what we had was more of reading, and comprehension skills, and there was emphasis on language archtecture and art.

Critical thinking, stems from awareness of the self and how it extends outwards. It drives critical living. Children, say at 14, can choose their own literature projects because a certain book has something which they experience as a description of their living experience.

Technology education is not about lap tops per se, but of relation among subjects, materials, and needs and how materials can be interacted with to meet certain needs. Science congress to me is a parody of technology education, if one considers how it's structured and how it's sustained.

Critical thinking is like mathematical thinking. How we understand mathematics and develop it is crucial to our existence. So, for me, we may be on the right path, but not optimally so.

Hapana Bias hapa. What makes you think, i was not talking to them in Kiswahili? You are right, the only thing most kids here know is about Baba and Uhuru and the discussions are also very superficial. I want to have a discussion with them about the relevance of the New Railway, our spiralling debt to GDP ratio,what can we improve on our devolution to make it work. They can´t speak proper kiswahili nor can they speak proper english

kwanza he should tell us what he was doing with teenagers discussing such matters?


Even the blue section guys cannot discuss these things intelligently without linking it to RAO and Kamwana

The biggest challenge we have for the millennials is their sense of entitlement.I have interacted with these interns who are always complaining they want more money and have zero experience and are always on facebook,twitter,youtube.We have to continue to push them to do their work which they pay little attention to.

In all fairness anyone who does not get the relation in the anatomy of insects and the technology we have today, alisomea from the dirisha. He's no better than Joho