mpobiz wrote:wukan wrote:Swenani wrote:Lolest! wrote:wukan wrote:He contradicts himself by saying the student should master the art of design. What industrial take off is he talking about?
He isn't anti-all arts and humanities. He seems to think subjects like history are bure kabisa but arts like design are beneficial to the economy
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That's SAD moreso, coming from Depee.
History is the most important subject and the west have used it to influence our culture an shape our thought processes.
Even the chinese while reviving the maritime silk road they remembered the history of Admiral Zheng who visited Malindi in the 13th Century before Vasco da gama. Heck they even put a statue of the guy at the SGR at Msa.
The chinese tapped into their history to find their own path to greatness. Ruto needs to read up on china's attempt at modernization in 1850-1910, he will see the technical skills training will come to nothing without the culture change.
Ruto's history teacher should be arrested and remanded without bail.
What all of you are saying is that Kenya will be great by following other peoples\ countries history? Where is our own? We also have our own dedan kimathi or arap samoei? Our history might be shallow that's why we have to delve into other cultures. The DP is categorical.. once we learn about our history we stop at that and use the remainder of the time not studying other people but we do some technical atudies as well.
I don't think it's wise to have a 'Ruto can never be wrong' attitude.
It's difficult to study 'our'- who are we? - history, without studying 'their' history. Samoei can't be understood without knowing who the British were.
Again history isn't about the past. It's so much about understanding the present, that if it were possible to press the 'stop' button, we'd all freeze and die.