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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have been reading and re-reading this Motion as put to us by the eloquent, well learned and renown educator in this country, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, but I feel that we will be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Inequity and marginalization in matters of education have a big fulcrum on historical injustices. Indeed, many other regions paid taxes those days just to concentrate on building institutions in certain “right” places. During my time in education, it was so terrible that there was no secondary school where I come from and I had to go to western province for my high school education. We had national, provincial and district schools. We also had a quota system which had been developed which also allowed provincial schools to pick students from other areas of this country. As it is the case today, national schools would admit students from all over the country. The Government funded all national and provincial schools. They were developed into the best models of good education. In any country, especially in the westernized countries, you will find specific institutions built for extra intelligent children. People are not equal in the real sense of it. We may not fully accept the Nyerere philosophy; but people are born with different Intelligent Quotients (IQs), different heights, strengths and gifts. Therefore, we must have schools that are actually designed and built for the purpose of encouraging and developing talent. Other areas have the ability and the opportunity, maybe as it is now, to have their children to go to good schools in this country such as Alliance, Kagumo, Kenya High School, among others. There are a few Kurias who have gone through those institutions to score the big results that are known for those schools. Hurrah! Kuria is coming up! Now, we say “let us classify all schools into county schools;” then the rules that exist have to be re-enacted. The regions that were privileged to have those good schools in their areas will have the advantage. They will have their children going to those very good centres of excellence built from the sweat of taxpayers of other regions. I find it unacceptable if we say that all schools be called county schools and they are equally financed. It sounds okay, but if we do so, we will kill centres of excellence that promoted intelligence that we want to cultivate so as to have better scientists, historians, economists and the like to fit in the world market. I am not saying that the other schools in the counties should be ignored. 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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