Real Lessons are Learnt on the Streets not in Lecture Rooms- Frank Gashumba

Self baptised motivational speaker, under his Sisimuka Foundation today morning preached and pumped some sense into graduates and university students at large.

“For the last to two weeks, I attended. Over 10 graduation parties, Congratulations to all my friends who graduated and I have been seeing all your pics on Facebook. So you have graduated, Congratulations but the real lessons are learnt on the streets not in class rooms or lecture theatres,” he stated before asking;

“Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life, do you know that nearly all Rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good looking?”

Gashumba said that in Uganda, we are taught that as long as u cram and pass exams ,you are referred as the BRIGHTEST. “The society we live in doesn’t ask for qualifications of the Successful people. Education should be about inspiring ones mind not just filling their head with rubbish,” he added.

“Guys do u remember during our S.4 and S.6 when we used spend night reading ( we used to call it KUBA WINTER ) falling asleep in heaps of books, memorising equations, facts and dates, half of which I never remember and half of which I would forget shortly after exams and after many years of mental frustration, you end up being broke and poor without a job or you can’t create one for yourself because the education system of Uganda does keep students in school like prisoners. Some students are kept in school without giving them an outlet when they know there talent is not in a university, it’s like we are trying to fill all students into a little nice box called Education and we test them with a pass mark of for example 70% pass mark so if a young boy scores 69.9% he is considered a failure,” the nostalgic Gashumba in his status updated said.

He suggested that universities need to teach skills, practicals, innovations rather than academics (cram work). “I AM NOT SAYING SCHOOL IS EVIL AND THERE IS NOTHING TO GAIN but if education can’t transform my life and lives of others, to hell with it . Grades don’t measure intelligence, Welcome to the practical World,” he concluded. Some lessons to pick up from the motor-mouthed Frank Gashumba.