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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Planning and National Development",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank hon. Karaba for giving me this opportunity. It is my view that the interest of this Motion is right, but what it is intending to do will not solve that problem. As a House, we passed the Sessional Paper on Education after a national consensus on what we need to do. It was agreed, even before the matter was brought before this House, that the 8-4-4 education system is good only that it was implemented in a haphazard manner. The workload for pupils, it was said, was too much. The matter was brought before us in this House and we passed the sessional paper. It will be a terrible memory loss if this House reneges on a Sessional Paper that it passed. December 6, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4197 Secondly, there are real issues to be addressed concerning this Motion. The problem is not that this is not a better system. I think that since most of us went through the 7-4-2-3 System of Education, we tend to think that it is the best. That argument is the same as thinking that the best cook is your mother. That, for sure, cannot be true. There are better cooks in five-star hotels! What we need to do is to improve the performance of our pupils at the starting level in this education system. Hon. Members have talked about the number of teachers in our primary schools. The Ministry of Education needs to hire teachers. They only hire teachers to replace the dead ones. We need to hire teachers in addition to those we hire because of natural attrition processes. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to oppose."
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