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"content": "when I was in Form 2 with a team from the Prince of Wales School. We used to beat them because we were well trained and disciplined. We had a core culture that was ingrained in us; that Alliance never loses. If you even look at old schools like Maseno or, for that matter, Kamusinga or Kakamega then, they were not very great schools in terms of equipment, facilities and so on, and so forth. They had established a culture that when you went there, you were expected to do well. Even great universities then, like the Makerere University College which was part of the University of London then, if you went to the University of London itself, what was Makerere then would be like a High School. However, when students from Makerere went to London, Oxford or Cambridge, they performed just as well. This is because there was a good tradition of learning, good professors and good head of institutions like the last British head of Makerere University, Kampala, Sir Bernard de Bunsen. He was an extremely good administrator and he had good knowledge of how to establish a university. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the things that we must do in this country is not just to look at this issue of national, county and so on, and so forth; but we must look at the training and discipline of teachers and the culture of proper education. We have turned a lot of our teacher training colleges into university colleges. For example, the famous middle level college like Egerton College was transformed into a university. We no longer have that kind of middle level college that trained veterinary technicians and so on, and so forth, who were extremely well learned people who contributed tremendously to our economy. Just the whole idea of teacher training seems to be getting lost. We have very few teacher training colleges and the few that are there are not the kind of teacher training college that I remember. For example, we used to have Siriba Teacher Training College that was in Maseno then when I was in High school. From teacher training colleges you get trainees who go for teaching practice in nearby schools and even give students the aspiration to be teachers. This is because when they came to nearby schools, they came by their buses and they were very well dressed. I remember when I was in Ndiru Primary which was an intermediate school, I would aspire to be a teacher because the trainee looked so brilliant and smart. It created a culture of aspiring to teach because teachers were regarded as smart, disciplined and good people. However, now you go to a school, find a teacher and you cannot believe that person is a teacher. He smells or drinks in the morning. He is walking in sandals and his pair of trousers is sometimes torn. Of course, sometimes teachers say they are like that because they are poorly paid. No, even then, teachers were poorly paid, but they were extremely disciplined and smart. I am not saying that all teachers are like that, but we must realize that good education comes from good teachers and good students with a tradition of learning and teaching. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I first became the Member for Kisumu Rural Constituency, I launched the CDF in the year 2003. This was my third term in Parliament. There was a very poor school in my constituency called Mbaka Oromo Primary School. This school was the poorest in terms of equipment. The school was built in between valleys and did not even have a football field. Students used to cross a valley 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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