Sunday, February 20, 2005
Saturday, February 19, 2005
By now I have almost all of the essays to send to Shari and the Young African-American Achievers in Yorktown. I am missing a couple of classes because Mr. Kabika got a new job and has kind-of dropped everything. He told me he had the final essays for me, but I haven’t seen him since. If I do get his essays, they may have to follow later.
Every class was involved, from Form I (equivalent to the U.S. 8th grade) to Form V (U.S. 12th grade, but Tanzania has a 13 year education system, so these students are not quite “seniors” yet). The difference in expression between Forms I and V is interesting. Since the primary grades (1 through 7) are taught in Kiswahili, the Form I students are in their first year where they have to use English in school. English is their second language and, for some who grew up speaking a tribal language, their third. Given this, I think they really do quite well. If I had to write something in Kiswahili (or even express myself clearly orally in Kiswahili) it would be a disaster.
Anyway, an example of a Form I essay, picked not quite at random:
What Education Means to Me
Raymond Nyasebwa, Form IB
In difinition education is a system where by people trained to improve their skills and knowledge.
Education on my side is very important because it helps me in the following ways:-
Education helps me to know the different parts of world, that is by studying various subject e.g climate of different country population.
Education is very important for human being, because it helps man to controll his daily activities.
Education helps me to know my body. Through education I can be able to know how I supose to eat in order to get good health.
Skipping to the end...
My coments is that education must be given by all people because is very important for them.
And from Form V:
What Education Means to Me
Rafiki Lufunga, Form VB
Educational Essay Writing, Feb 10, 05
Living organisms especially man has different ways through which can live while tamming nature. It is education that makes human being to be differentiated from other living creatures like cow, birds and even plants. Education means knowledge, skills or wisdoms. There education is something that inculcates knowledge, skills or wisdoms in one’s mind for one’s betterments.
Skipping to the end...
By summing up, I argue that education as a ‘tool’ or ‘weapon’ can be termed as a bush-fire that play a double role to perpetuate development of one’s welfare or the whole society and on the same way can be a tool for Social Stratification and destruction of the purposes of true education are embezzled. for instance the prevailing situation of planting nuclear weapons which are terrifying the World peace and harmony. Therefore by so to say I am extrimely targeted to use my education for the Welfare of me and the rest world.
By now I have almost all of the essays to send to Shari and the Young African-American Achievers in Yorktown. I am missing a couple of classes because Mr. Kabika got a new job and has kind-of dropped everything. He told me he had the final essays for me, but I haven’t seen him since. If I do get his essays, they may have to follow later.
Every class was involved, from Form I (equivalent to the U.S. 8th grade) to Form V (U.S. 12th grade, but Tanzania has a 13 year education system, so these students are not quite “seniors” yet). The difference in expression between Forms I and V is interesting. Since the primary grades (1 through 7) are taught in Kiswahili, the Form I students are in their first year where they have to use English in school. English is their second language and, for some who grew up speaking a tribal language, their third. Given this, I think they really do quite well. If I had to write something in Kiswahili (or even express myself clearly orally in Kiswahili) it would be a disaster.
Anyway, an example of a Form I essay, picked not quite at random:
What Education Means to Me
Raymond Nyasebwa, Form IB
In difinition education is a system where by people trained to improve their skills and knowledge.
Education on my side is very important because it helps me in the following ways:-
Education helps me to know the different parts of world, that is by studying various subject e.g climate of different country population.
Education is very important for human being, because it helps man to controll his daily activities.
Education helps me to know my body. Through education I can be able to know how I supose to eat in order to get good health.
Skipping to the end...
My coments is that education must be given by all people because is very important for them.
And from Form V:
What Education Means to Me
Rafiki Lufunga, Form VB
Educational Essay Writing, Feb 10, 05
Living organisms especially man has different ways through which can live while tamming nature. It is education that makes human being to be differentiated from other living creatures like cow, birds and even plants. Education means knowledge, skills or wisdoms. There education is something that inculcates knowledge, skills or wisdoms in one’s mind for one’s betterments.
Skipping to the end...
By summing up, I argue that education as a ‘tool’ or ‘weapon’ can be termed as a bush-fire that play a double role to perpetuate development of one’s welfare or the whole society and on the same way can be a tool for Social Stratification and destruction of the purposes of true education are embezzled. for instance the prevailing situation of planting nuclear weapons which are terrifying the World peace and harmony. Therefore by so to say I am extrimely targeted to use my education for the Welfare of me and the rest world.
