Education System needs to be fixed by everyone

For you that think you are better than everyone else, it’s time you took the mirror and have a good look at yourself, ask yourself, why have all my dreams just remain as that and my reality does not fit what I imagined.

Your imagination is perfect but circumstances can’t make an exact copy of what you picture in your mind to every detail.

A quote by Albert Einstein on Imagination

Simple because you are one part of a complex system of the human race, human beings evolved through trial and error and ingenuity through each other’s adaptation of their ever changing environment.

 You can conjure up things but you can’t bring others into your mind to be in sync  with your perceived reality, people have their own demons to fight.

This has led me to realize that there is no such thing as perfection, what you create will be shined by some other person who betters your creation, by finding your flaws and improving on them.

Possibilities are endless when imagining things but it takes a lifetime to try and perfect something, like the saying goes if it’s not broken don’t fix it, just improve it and things keep progressing.

I am not a “dissident” nor am I here to please or create enemies but to offer some satirical insight into some issues blazing through PNG.

I think too much for my age I am just 30 years old and I thought why not I start a satire blog?

 I am not perfect rather a statistic of some study of human kind, no one is perfect, how can you be a perfect human, when being human is being alive.

Humans have a timeline and no one can accomplish everything in a time frame, you still leave something undone once you’re done in this lifetime.

Despite being the same species, everyone has an opinion and no one’s opinion matter because you feel what others say is not right in some way.

 Everyone desires some form of standard but what you see as perfect is just an imagined concept.

That brings me to a point.

There is so much that people want to say on social media, but sometimes it’s not written well, it’s joyous to laugh at these spelling errors and wrong tenses and misconception of words, on Facebook, the screen shots of peoples poor English is funny but fun and laughter aside it’s at   the cost of proud Papua New Guineas failed by the Government Education System and their society.

Notice two things mentioned, education system and society.

The education system in Papua New Guinea is somewhat flawed, some people who themselves could not master the GPA to warrant a tertiary education, yet self-sponsored themselves to a diploma in education.

Now that has got to be a crime, they had limited choices but institutions need the finance to survive and end up undermining the level of quality they should be setting to the growing population.

Schools have limited resources to provide for students, and lack innovation to provide even extra-curricular activities to support their budding pupils, reading clubs, adventure clubs something to get the students acquainted to the real world, to be thematic in their approach to issues at their level.

And then the bottle neck system of a huge number of primary schools, less number of secondary schools and limited spaces in tertiary institutions, why so competitive when all you get in the government education system is winners and losers, winners advance and losers get the “F” laterally.

But who introduced us to western education?

Let’s take a History lesson, the Three G’s God, Gold and Glory, short cut colonization, when we were colonized it was for the glory of the expansion of ideals, ideals like Christianity and the search of wealth.

The Three Gs

Expansion and exploration was for the superior nations, for the empire the claiming of “Terra nullius”, the uncivilized bought into civilization through Christianity and with it indoctrination.

Plantations popped up as the ancestors worked for the empire.

Let’s get this straight we were colonized by empires, established nations with intellectuals who formed policies and ideals who had a common interest to grow the empire.

Some were in search of new land as theirs crumbled into chaos; some also had personal malicious intent.

The systems put in place were to protect their national interest and their world view.

The PNG education system is career driven and a “caste system”, you get A’s and you get to be a Doctor, Lawyer, engineer, and so on and so forth.

Some information on the education system in Papua New Guinea

Those that don’t make it through the system are left with limited opportunities.

Only a few will achieve their dreams where the path they charted is right before them, otherwise you will settle for something else.

The other point comes in society, PNG is said to be built on a system of leadership, and close community survival.

Society has not survived without any form of leadership, teamwork and innovation.

They say family is the foundation, but simple jealousy and pride, because of unequal distribution of wealth among families, is a deterrent.

Put differences aside and focus on the benefits of family, you only live once why not share your knowledge; everyone has some piece of advice to offer.

Let me put it this way, if we are able to learn from mistakes and see improvement in our lives than our children and younger siblings should not be lagging behind in the education system.

If teachers are not up to standard than those in the family system should be working together to innovate ways to improve the teaching and learning aspects of children.

The education system is too far gone to fix, but households and extended families can improve the system by making it their business to teach the fundamentals of reading and writing and correct grammar as foundation to more pressing issues in the ever changing world.

Children are at an age where they have so much potential and if the society they grow up in is intelligent but lack empathy for the breakdown in simple fundamentals in education than we have a problem.

Teachers need to be more innovative and committed, an educated nation is a smart nation, and teachers need to be prioritized.

With the internet streaming everything in multiple windows and tabs so much information, rewarding humorous, filth and all sorts are being digested in seconds of each scroll and tap by the pointer or the thumb.

If things don’t get fixed than we will continue on with the current trend,

We will have individuals who have no real guidance at home from their immediate and extended family, coupled with poor performing teachers who are struggling with their socio economic problems.

Resulting in individual’s writing things on facebook with their imagination thinking that it is perfect, but instead it creates a lot of ridicule for this nation and its citizens.

 The Government must see this as priority improving the whole system of education how teachers are recruited, and how they are trained, and how they can instill more than just basic education, while for  parents and the extended do not  blame the system but help improve their children’s understanding by correcting and guiding where teachers have failed.