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    "id": 426168,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. The Motion requires the Senate to call upon the national Government to take immediate measures to develop clear policy guidelines for adult education, staff recruitment, training, deployment and discipline in order to promote adult education. It is a shame that 50 years after Independence, we have a Motion before the Senate on adult education. This started after Independence and we should ask ourselves what we have been doing. After 50 years, we have adults in this country who have not gone to school. We should have functional adult education. What does it matter whether Maruge got “A-plus” or a “B-pus” in his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE)? That is an absolute waste of time. This is a man who should have been looking after his grandchildren. I know that he was celebrated after going to school when he was 80 years old. So what? How did the nation benefit from the education that he got? We should not be going to school for the sake of it. We should have an instrumental theory of education that you are being educated as a way of developing the society. You should be educated so as to contribute to the society at whatever level. This is the point that is being missed in the adult education plan. There is nothing wrong with an old person learning how to read or write for the purposes of reading the Bible because we are preparing to face our Maker at one time or another. That is important. There is nothing wrong with a person being educated and adding one to two and knowing how to count monies that they have received or to check the change they have received from the supermarkets. However, it should not be the function of the Adult Education Programme to give you a certificate at the age of 50, 60 and above. You should have education to have a more civilized life. One need not pass examinations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, adult education has failed in this country because it does not conform to the lifestyle of older people in this country. For instance, if it is introduced in Meru County - there are places where people pick tea from morning till evening – if you fix these classes to be at 4.00 pm, who will leave picking tea to go and attend the adult education classes? We should capitalize on the moments when people are free to teach adult education. The enrolment rate has been very low because education does not 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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