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    "content": "going to get sick, but in the event that you are sick, you will be taken care. The same principle I think should be used in education. Everybody, should, through whatever method; check off systems, taxation and so on, contribute to an educational fund; a fund which in the final analysis is used to finance education. Do not expect every parent every time a child goes to school, you do it out of pocket. This has proved very inefficient and very costly and quite often counter- productive as this Motion so shows. So, I would urge my friend, David Musila, that he has come a long way with this Motion but a step further is needed. Maybe in his next Motion, he will come back with a Motion for better financing of the educational system in this country. If he needs my help, I am quite prepared to participate in the framing of that Motion. I do believe that that is the only rational way of dealing with financing education in this country. The second thing I wanted to talk about is that I hope that from now on, progressively, we are going to eliminate unnecessary examinations. I do not think in this day and age a child should go to school, sit an examination in Standard Eight and then another one in Form Four. I think what we should do to develop this country is a philosophy of basic education that comes from kindergarten to Fourth Form so that you go from kindergarten to Fourth Form just to sit examination at the school where you are and not one which when you were in Standard Eight transfers you from one school to the other. These pupils that come out of Standard Eight, quite honestly, in this day and age, what do you expect them to do? How much had they prepared for life? When they complete Standard Eight, you hold their certificates. Is this not preposterous? So, I think the idea of having primary and secondary school is outdated. Just as much as we got rid of intermediate schools of our days which were going from Standard Fiver to Standard Eight in those days. In those days it was even worse. You had to sit an examination in Standard Four and then another one in Standard Eight. If you went to some schools, you sat another examination in Form Two, then in Form Four and then in Form Six. This examination crazy education system is something that we should really get rid of. If we did, then we do not have this phenomenon of always complaining about certificates being held, because part of the problem is that we have too many examinations leading to the holding of certificates by headmasters, principals and so on, and leaving us to coming to this House and spending a whole two or three days discussing this since the days that Sen. Musila was PC up to today. I really do not think that that is a very efficient use of our time. I think we should have a much better system of financing education and secondly, let us get rid of these examinations which are not necessary especially the one in Standard Eight. That examination in this day and age is not necessary, especially a Government like this one that prides itself of being digital has not thought of this issue. It is quite surprising because this is an issue which it should have thought of ab initio. I beg to support."
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