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    "content": "something that must only be done in universities, which is not the case. Schools and universities can be the formal institutions through which or from which education is produced, but it is not necessary that it is the only institution where you have to go to get that education. I think that centres for continuing education in the nation will really help us because the universities will be involved. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I notice some extremely dangerous precedent we have set in this country; the precedent of turning all teacher-training colleges into universities or university colleges and depriving teachers of any form of training. I would like us to begin developing teacher developing centres or development centres for teachers. Teachers who are teaching can go to these centres – just like we go to the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA) or the Kenya School of Government (KSG) as it is called now – so that they retool themselves. At the moment, a teacher going to teach and a teacher who has been teaching for 20 years without going to any school to retool themselves becomes extremely backward people because they do not renew themselves. Rather than reinvent the old teacher training colleges, some of which are still there, I think it is very important to have in every county what I would call ‘centres for teacher development,’ where teachers can go while they are teaching and get some new learning or education. Centres of teacher development could also be part and parcel of centres for continuing education, because teachers are also adults. So, if we could get adults who are both teachers and non-teachers to go to such centres and continue to educate themselves, it would be very important for teachers. I have gone to school in my county and encountered teachers who were maybe in their flowering period 10 years ago, but no longer can they flower. They have the knowledge, all right, but it is really not relevant to the kind of students or pupils they are confronting today, and how they have to impart that knowledge. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I see teacher Karaba’s Motion as, indeed, very relevant and very wise; something that we can use to kill more than two birds with one stone. Therefore, I support this Motion very strongly and I hope that when the Senate passes this Motion, that it will reach somewhere it can be implemented, so that we do not just do it for show; but we should do it for the Ministry of Education, the universities and those who are concerned about continuing education to take cognizance of this Motion and implement it; to have county assemblies to be introduced to this Motion and implement it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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