![]() A life of a child in Papua New Guinea is on a paper. The education system has destroyed our minds with imposed education. Over 12 years in school just to get a paper called "Higher School Certificate" while you don't have any experiences. Because that 12 years were wasted on theories and useless compulsory subjects. If you fail you are considered as useless person by society. Few commit suicide, some take drugs and others turn themselves into prostitutes, criminals and vendors because they failed to obtain good results from the so-called "Certificate". You go to school to learn how to read & write. Nothing else. By the time you leave schools you have no idea about money. No idea about entrepreneurship. No idea about coding. No idea about farming. No idea about App creation. No idea about life. Nothing. No skills no nothing. Only theories & nonsense about how to be someone's employee. Our school system was created for the purpose of labor. It doesn't promote thinking but promotes remembering for purpose of creating good employees who doesn't think but can remember.
The school system where you learn useless things; making a living, who was the first PM of Australia? What's the longest river in PNG? Tell me what's the use of that rubbish? So you went to school to study how many legs does a grasshopper have? You wake up at night to study how many balance diet per day. You memorize photosynthesis, osmosis. You memorize how many teeth a dog has. You memorize everything. At the end of the day who did they produce? They produced someone who is a container of useless knowledge. This school system produces a container of useless knowledge. The foreigners came to set up industries. Almost 90% of the companies are owned by foreigners like Chinese, Indians, Europeans, etc. And laborers were graduates from school of remembering. And they reward them with a bribe called salary and you feel comfortable. So when foreigners are coming to Papua New Guinea, They come to rip our resources and we are the means of production. The problem with our education system is that, academic excellence is overrated. It teaches ability to understand a concept, memorise it to pass exams. It produces white collar bureaucrats who can't perform, innovate, write, research, develop or produce. It's about schooling/acquiring papers and not education/knowledge acquisition. We have Engineers who can't even mend a pot hole, we have professors who can't even write a book. The country is pregnant with graduates (of useless qualifications) only waiting for employment. The system is producing thousands upon thousands of graduates; bachelors, masters and PHD holders every year but where are the fruits; where is the development, where is the innovation, where is research and development, the SME, where is the entrepreneurship, the social mobility, the human development? You spend too much time in school and what you have learnt in school, is to work for wages and fighting over increments of salaries. Go to China. Go to Japan you will find scientists & engineers at the age of 16. You will find doctors & neurosurgeons at The Age Of 20. These kids are taught how to think from a young age. Their school system teach them how to be creative, how to manufacture a car, how to operate a human body & how to make money. That's why poverty rate is below 0.7% in asian countries. In Papua New Guinea the schools teach you what to think, how to calculate money & how to be an employee. The difference between us and Asia is that Asia produces employers and Papua New Guinea produces employees. After 12 to 30 years of school & many don't know how to think out of the box. Don't know how to be creative, innovative or regenerate money. The curriculum in Papua New Guinea is useless. That's why the unemployment rate is so high. The universities and colleges intakes are only limited to Higher School Certificate output. Out of 31,000 Grade 12 school leavers in 2020, only 9,300 have been selected for further studies. February will see 20,000 poor kids fighting for entrance, many have to go back home because there's no space. Our educational System it made us think that without a paper we can't make it! The only way to resets our mindsets is to eliminate this education system. It's the main thing that keeps people under oppression. And narrates their minds into narrow thinking. So we keeps on being in viscous circle of poverty, no matter how much we try. Changing the entire education system is the key to start breaking the chains. By Therow Zuaru - PNG Education Talk Send your views to us by email : [email protected] Next : Number Of School Dropouts In PNG Worrying Share your Inspirational Stories, Education Issues, Education Talk. Let your voice be heard: Send us your stories to us: email : [email protected] Share this
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B
1/7/2021 05:01:09 pm
Large chunk of this article are plagiarized from articles about African Education. The author should be ashamed of themselves for passing this off as original thought.
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C
1/14/2021 06:25:58 am
Original or not original; message received is loud & clear. At least he/she has the guts to say something that is true and ON-POINT...
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petrus klup
1/8/2021 07:18:31 pm
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Kal
1/14/2021 05:36:14 am
Amen....Thank you for sharing your heart...
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The education decision makers including those in the government responsible for education are to be blamed for the output (of having a PNG student with useless knowledge by the end of year 12). Fast decisions are made to change the curriculum from one type (objective based curriculum) to another type ( outcome based curriculum) to another type again ( Standard based curriculum) without proper and careful research and analysis of findings to really see if it will work or not; and if it did not work, then, what is it that is causing it not to work, then, we should improve on those loop holes to make it better rather than, throwing the whole curriculum out and then, writing up a brand new curriculum over night under so much pressure without following carefully the requirements properly in the "curriculum development cycle stages" and with so many needs that surrounds the new curriculum's development and when the support to the new curriculum development is not provided for properly, then, we have another curriculum being birth forth to produce another generation of students under the label " useless knowledge".
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