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    "id": 953535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953535/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "I support this Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019. Let me congratulate the Departmental Committee on Education and Research for doing a thorough job. Competency Based Curriculum has come at the right time, especially when we have Prof. Magoha as the Cabinet Secretary for Education. He is a known scholar whom I know will make sure that we implement this curriculum to the letter with surgical precision. Let us speak the truth about the 8-4-4 System of Education. It has let us down because our brains are like the memory card. If you put some rational and required information, it will be full. If you have a 2 Gigabyte (GB) brain or 64GB brain like mine, some will be filled very quickly and hang. There are some lessons which were taught about who discovered Mt. Kenya. What has that got to do with somebody who will become a doctor? There is also a lesson on insect parts. What does it have to do with somebody who will be an accountant? Bernoulli's principle was also taught. What has that got to do with somebody who will become a bank manager? We were filling our memory cards with information that we do not require. We require the CBC curriculum to exploit the talent of our youths because all of us cannot be doctors. Who will be treating who? All of us cannot be engineers, farmers or carpenters. Who will be making chairs for other people? We need the best out of every person in our country. We know that the best carpenter who makes wheelchairs and chairs for State House or for this Parliament earns a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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