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    "content": "The kind of human being that one turns out to be takes place within the first three years of school. So if they are hungry and not concentrating, they hate school and they do not see it as rewarding, then we are wasting generations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, we need to standardize EDCE through an education policy and also drop the term “village polytechnics.” I support this, and they are just polytechnics. This village polytechnic term gives a connotation of failure locality, primitiveness and non-exposure. This is just a polytechnic only that it is located in a certain locality, period. If you equip it well, give bursaries, motivate students and modernize the equipment, Kenya can leap so fast. We need more electricians and more masons. The other day someone asked me; “Do you have a diploma holder from your county in Mechanical Engineering?” I could not get. However, I have Curriculum Vitas (CVs) in my office of four mechanical engineers who are degree holders. However, this one required a diploma. This is a very sophisticated project in an institution that deals with very sophisticated energy generation. Do you have a diploma holder in Mechanical Engineering? I asked all the Members of the National Assembly from my county whether they know of any person in their constituencies with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and they told me that there was none. They would all come and tell me that they had first degree holders, Masters Degrees and even professors in Mechanical Engineering. So, let us stop this craze that you must have a degree in order to succeed. I say this as a holder of many degrees. Secondly, as much as learning about Vasco Da Gama is a good thing, this country requires something different; something over and above the study of arts and the humanities. Science and technology is not negotiable for me. Finally, just to emphasize once more that it does not help a primary school child to be taught about the blank constant, Pythagoras theorem and high sophisticated issues in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy. We are wasting our children because those are things that should be introduced in secondary school. In fact, in primary school, there should be only two subjects; one, playing and bonding and two, forming a critical mass within our children of people who believe that Kenya is the best nation on earth with all its problems; people who believe that they can directly contribute to transforming their nation. That is why the Americans with all their challenges as a nation, when they sing the national anthem, they put their hands on their chests and they cry and weep. Here, we do not even know that national anthem properly. We do not even know what it means, but we sing it and do not live it. When the national anthem says that we will defend our heritage as a country, what that means, nobody cares to know and we cannot introduce the software that forms humanity, that is the value system in old age. We must do it as early as possible. With those many remarks, I support this Report and I highly commend the Chairman and the Committee Members for a wonderful Report and recommendations. Thank you. 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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