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    "content": "you discover that was not your calling and that you would have liked to be an accountant or a clergy man. You should then find a centre for adult education to pursue your new found love and to get a degree in your new found love. We have seen universities giving degrees to people who are 80 years who have decided to do their masters in a new field. There is a also a study – today is a day for citing studies following the Senator for Bungoma – that if you acquire a new skill later in life, for instance, Sen. Okong’o may decide to be a Table Tennis (TT) player at the age of 60. You will find that this may renew his life and may make him live longer. The only thing you should not do at age of 60 is to get a new young wife because that requires a lot effort and can destroy you much earlier. However, if you acquire a skill later in life, you become rejuvenated and live much longer. So, such things can be done in centres of adult education to make adults acquire skills and become a little bit livelier. Research has also been done to the effect that people learning in adulthood become much keener in revealing new things. If we have centres for continuous education, there could be opportunities to do research in adulthood. Recently, we had a Motion here on ageing. That was a very important Motion. I can relate it to the need to have centres for continuous education that can allow universities to do research on how to teach old people and to develop curriculum that is friendly to them as the Senator for Meru has said and to establish medium of curving out education outside the formal system. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing which is extremely important in this Motion is the fact that education is perhaps less costly outside formal institutions. Formal institutions tend to have a lot of overheads, but informal institutions tend to reach many more people and are very effective. This is why the radio was discovered, because although the radio is some formal institution, but it reaches people through the informal setting. For example, if you have a radio in a bar, the person who goes to drink there does not know what he is going to encounter in a bar. But just by being in a bar and seeing a television or listening to a radio, he will suddenly realize that there is something important that he needs to pay attention to. Now, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my younger life, I was responsible for carrying out what we call ‘school broadcasting service’ at the then Voice of Kenya (VoK) and we were teaching students in high schools and primary schools through the radio. That was an extremely important programme for teachers because teachers realized that some of the things they could not teach or did not know came through the radio from only one person talking in Nairobi, which was very effective. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I see another opportunity in establishing centres for continuing education in counties using the media of radio and television to extend education to those who are no longer in formal institutions. I am talking about formal institutions because we tend to think that in order to go to school, we need to follow the footstep of the first grader that Sen. Wetangula said. But that is only if we identify education as something that must only be done in schools, which is not the case; or 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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