"At school you are engaged not so much in acquiring knowledge as in making mental efforts under criticism. A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours you spent on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions. But you go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the art of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage, and for mental soberness."

William Johnson (later Cory), King's Scholar 1832-41, Master 1845-72

@Gordon Gekko its a college being built not a secondary

@Njung'e, many thanks. I'll get my machinery moving.

@marex, was there this morning - you know that is where mpango wa kando yuko and there were people working at the site....

@njunge, @marex, very many thanks for all the info and tit bits. My boy is sitting in a classroom at Booker as I write this. Nani kama Wazua???

Well, i think there is some truth in it although this post does not cover the whole pic. You see, the reason why you will find someone who went to alliance in the same office with someone who went to marsabit High, is simply because there are many alliance guys in the office. In another office, you'll find an alliance guy with a guy from kipcherikiomo sec, and in another, you'll find an alliance guy with someone from matisis secondary. In last years exam, over one hundred students from alliance got As - forming 12% of all the students who got As in KCSE. Now, that is more than what some provinces managed to raise.In KU where i was, 20 of us who were admitted that year came from one high school; but one of our friends in class was the only one who was admitted to KU from Lodwar high that year. So, going to alliance gives you a better chance of being "better than the average" more than the rural high school will help you. How many of the Bodaboda guys who have ever carried you went to Starehe and Alliance?

Education in Kenya is too competitive and thanks to our confused policy makers-Ongeri & co,The determinant of ones success lies in passing the exams KCPE AND KCSE.This leaves us ordinary Kenyans with little choice.get the best school for your child.one that will guarantee that the kid passes the damn exams,at the same time hoping and praying that he doesn't turn to smokables...

Someone...all the Wazua family that had a kid in class 8 last year, how fair will be the gova be in placement of our kids to National schools? What options do we have?

St Elizabeth is a no no.

Brookshine (Kamulu Area) is a no no.