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    "id": 1119802,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am happy that this Petition has been brought because it gives us the opportunity to look at the content of the CBC once more. Remember the other day I brought a Statement about the people of Taita/Taveta being taught Taveta and leaving out Taita and Kisagala, which are actually languages in Taita/Taveta. We want Kitaita and Kisagala included in the CBC. Education is supposed to help us grow all rounded students, students to grow spiritually, physically, emotionally and intellectually. Let us not leave out chess because there are some students who might want to learn chess in schools just like there are those who want to play football. If we do this, we would be discriminating a big chunk of students who want to learn chess. I am a teacher by profession and I remember a theory postulated by Howard Gardner who said there are around eight intelligences. The first one is linguistic. If we are to cater for all the students, there are some who are good in language. So, in school, we must provide for students who want to tap their talent in debate by allowing them to participate in debate clubs. Some are good in Mathematics. How do we make students who are good in mathematics develop Mathematical skills? Mathematics is about logic. This game of chess will go a long way in developing the logic of students and they will do very well in Mathematics. There are students who are good in spatial intelligence or aesthetics. These ones should be given art to develop their talents. They can do drawing and sculpturing. There are some who are good in bodily kinesthetic. These ones should be given opportunity to play games that require energy like football. There are some who are good in music, interpersonal intelligences, naturalistic intelligences, just to mention but a few. I really support the introduction of chess in our curriculum. Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko has alluded to the fact that this game could be expensive. We are told that one chess board is about Kshs2000. However, we can innovate and improvise now that we are under the CBC system. Why can we not allow our children to make the chessboards and the pawns that will be moved in the chess game? We do not need to disallow that game in our curriculum simply because it is expensive. We can allow the local people to make the chess game and sell to schools. There are some schools that can afford games like hockey while others cannot afford. What do we do? We tell the parents whose children want to play hockey to bring hockey sticks to school. I really wish that the Committee on Education could see how it can bring in chess into the curriculum."
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