Says Pachivanhu Chedu TofiraNyika: Products of Education by Rote Letting Africa Down

Pachivanhu Chedu TofiraNyika Bvumavaranda Technocrat Shami Fred It is not the educated who have been lost to the continent. It is the loss of our ability to think, our ability to think in an unstructured manner, our ability to think in a way that comes natural to the mind, creative thought [out-of-the-box thinking] and our thinking inspiration [spiritual inspiration] that we have lost. And it is this loss of our limitless creative free mind that has been killed to regimented training, structured, standardized thinking to make us administrators of western economies that we call education that is the problem. 

The men and women who created the Great Zimbabwe didn't use the burning brick standard process as the means to make the walls of our ruins and they didn't use common cutting tools to cut the stones, hence the ruins are unique.....they were inspired by unique thoughts and ways that were inspired by their culture and spirituality..

Africa has lost its collective thought, its ideas, its creativity, its dreams, its generational memory and problem solving to be rats in a cage on the wheel, trained and indoctrinated by education to live in the cage to run on the wheel to generate electricity.

A lot of educated Africans are sitting in Africa and failing to use their education to deconstruct primitive accumulation and capitalism, unable to solve African problems because their studies were tailored for them to serve western primitive accumulation and capitalism even through the innovation process. 

Today, few educated engineers would say we as Africans should reinvent the wheel but yet most leading western inventions in the world were reinventions of the wheel, why? Why would they say that to us yet Africans golden age of innovation was decoupled from western wheels, influences or knowledge? Because that's what they were taught by education, which happened to be western education. They are told It's important for new innovations to piggy back off existing [western wheels] ones so that the new innovations from Africa or Asia are not disruptors or category killers for western technology. They must be an extension of western innovation so that westerners can emulate and take ownership of the technology through commercializations and capitalization. It's also done so that new non western innovation requires reliance on western inputs.

You find Africans who are economists, taught to economize resources of poor nations for the capitalization, ownership and control by western nations. They are taught to follow western economic conventions, systems and principles that use western rules for western benefit, how ludicrous is that? how can such an educated person deconstruct western control? How are they really thinking? Education doesn't teach people to think but to think in a controlled manner, devoid of creativity or option.

Education is indoctrination and an illusion because it's a half story that keeps us occupied and stops our minds from thinking to their fullest potential. It tells us who has the right to think and who doesn't. It tells people how to think and tells our minds that if we are not good at thinking in the set ways (using prescribed maths), we can't do......it disables the minds of thinkers and creators. 

A lot of what is used to actually give the west innovation and leadership is not actually taught in our schools but it's taught in organizational training, systems, processes and systems taught by R&D departments internally......the secrets that get patented and protected because they are not conventional knowledge.

So what is education, if the real knowledge is held tightly as intellectual property? Where does intellectual property come from because it's surely not from education otherwise all educated people would be capable of creating it? It's thought, human creativity and human inspired thought where people get creations and it's that which education kills.

A response by Pachivanhu Chedu Tofiranyika to my commentary based on Dr Shashi Tharoor's Oxford University Debate.