Mis-Education of Education

Flooding. No humans allowed around the river.

The sun and the moon are amused by what we are taught in higher primary, all the way to college. Knowledge is divided into subjects, which upgrade to courses at university. Some students take it to the next level and do Masters or Ph.D. programs.

The sun and moon represent total knowledge. You ignore them at your peril. People called ama-Zulu regard the moon as the midwife. That is why they call women’s monthly menstrual cycle ‘enyangeni.’ Meaning? She is in the moon. It is a difficult concept to understand for people who live in countries controlled by Wi-Fi.

American, British or French education is divided into currencies, things we ought to learn to function in a money society, based on the destruction of nature. We call it the economy.

Nature saw the selfishness and the live-for-the-moment nature of man. That is why it has a backup plan. Nature made certain parts unavailable. That is why we have mountains, volcanoes, oceans, rivers, waterfalls, deserts, Equatorial and Amazon forests, and mosquitoes.

Without these, money man would have turned the whole world into commercial and residential real estate. What happens when it is no longer needed? It turns into slums.

Western education is not holistic because it is commodity education, to prepare kids for commerce, an anti-nature exercise. When things don’t work out, it is called a recession.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.