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    "content": "Therefore, we cannot say that the education system in this country is just for producing workers. This is a system of education that has produced intellectuals. I do not know much about jurisprudence, the legal work, I wish Senator Omar was here to tell me, after him going through whatever education system, he went through, what new innovation in jurisprudence would, probably, have come forward from the legal field. Professor is here. I am sure he would fit into that category of the product of education in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, going back to the report, I want to commend the Committee for what they have done so far. The Committee has actually made a plan to tour all the 47 counties of this country. We have planned to do so, because we have realized that there are uniqueness in every of the counties. It is, therefore, important that we follow that programme and visit every county. There are some similarities, of course, on some of the things we have found. Some of them are like the issue of the ECD. The ECD centres in all areas we have visited are physically placed away from the mainstream schools. This is a common phenomenon. They are not only placed away, but they have got the poorest facilities in any of the institutions that we have visited. We also saw that even the interaction between the nursery school children and the rest of the children in the school was distorted. There was no interaction. In fact, this spread to the teachers. There was hardly any interaction between the teachers who taught in nursery or ECD classes and the ones who taught in the main school. So, these are the observations and challenges that we saw. Obviously, we have said many times that there is no standard curriculum. Madam Temporary Speaker, there were very few disabled individuals that we saw in the early stages of schooling. The few that we saw in the school gave me the impression that these are not the only disabled people. I think that families are hiding many disabled children who should, probably, be brought to school very early, especially when they are not able to walk to school on their own. We can start encouraging communities to bring their disabled children forward and, probably, be assisted in terms of education. Madam Temporary Speaker, we tried to improve our report with photographs, but it is very unfortunate that the photographs that are there are those of Committee Members. I now know that it would have been better if these photographs were for the institutions which we visited. That would have made this report better than it is, at the moment. We will improve on that and make sure that we bring information home, when we visit these schools. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have also had the opportunity to share the information that we have found with chairmen of education committees in the various assemblies throughout the country. We have also had occasion to share some of this information with education executives throughout the country in the two or three meetings that we have had in Naivasha and Mombasa. This is a very useful thing. As we continue to consolidate information, it is good that we start to share it, so that we can improve on the areas that we have identified as we go along. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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