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    "content": "there. The majority who could turn against the entire system and even overthrow the system of Government are out there. In Migori, for example, where you come from, people are not educated because they were not given the opportunity. Their bitterness is their knowledge which can then be transformed to become a terrible thing. We must all be concerned when we see children playing football with small balls outside their homes without going to school.You must know and get concerned that something wrong is mushrooming here because this person is going to turn against you and the entire system. So, we must start now and ask ourselves whether classification alone really matters, like my honourable friend is suggesting. Classify this school and pretend that it will be equal to the other one. If you have no facilities, teachers and a vision, but just classification, then you are doomed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, education should not be something for people to meddle with it. If it is a devolved sector of our economy or whatever, this must be followed by a very strong management and administration without corruption. Where did our corruption start? When I hear that a certain young man has scored 400 or 600 marks, I am not moved at all because who knows whether the examination was done by his father considering the rampant corruption in this country. You just start singing for somebody and carry him shoulder high and you do not know for sure whether it was done by a teacher or himself. I think that person who is being carried shoulder high, knowing too well that it was done by Sen. (Dr.) Zani, has been made a thief from the word go. He will live this kind of life because the truth no longer exists to him. I was a proprietor of a secondary school and I got tired with it. You find that private schools are doing so well all the time because Government schools are not properly managed and have no facilities. Teachers in both schools graduated from the same teacher training colleges. With the Kenyan way of life, which private school would not want to be ranked as the best so as to attract more students every year? It can only be ranked best if it can do what other Kenyans are doing. You know too well what Kenyans are doing. We have to get out of corruption and become different people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if people who claim to be saved are saved for sure, I would ask the whole Parliament to retire and get these saved people to come and manage our affairs. However, if you are just saved in order to achieve certain objectives, you are not saved at all. The only way you can start improving our schools is by creating all the facilities that are required in a secondary school; the teachers, and all the things that go with a secondary school. Again, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you create a new culture of teachers because people have taken it for granted. You should know and I am sure you know that when children join Standard One up to Standard Eight, it is just like a bottle of Coca Cola which has been put in a manufacturing machine that will come out whether we like it or not. None of us is asking himself of herself about the bottles which were not properly filled. People are being churned out like machines; you finish your primary school and then you go ahead. If you do well, you go to secondary school. Even if you are lucky to have found somebody to do the examination for you, you proceed to secondary school. 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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