Quality over quantity - The Namibian Education System
Anyone remember Albert Einstein? Genius of a dude. Created the theory of relativity. Nope! Not annoying uncles and aunts, not those kinds of relatives. He is famous for the equation; E = MC 2 . Anyone? Well, he once said “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” Charlie Chaplin once joked that people knew him because they understood him, but only knew Einstein because they didn’t understand him. Who is Charlie Chaplin? Uhm, okay: let’s just stick to Einstein because a history lesson will take too long. Einstein also said, “I fear the day technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” Looking at the Namibian Grade 12 results for the 2013 exams, Professor Einstein might have been on to something. We have kids that appear to speak English but fail the language in school. That know every setting on an I-phone 5S but can’t find the area of a square. You will find young adults in a room l...