By RoberT Nyasato
Sustained calls for investment in natural sciences at the expense of social sciences are misinformed, a university don has said.
Prof Joseph Nyasani argues that those fronting this idea are ignorant of social reality. “It has been very loudly advocated in this country that we should lay more emphasis on natural sciences rather than on social sciences. This is a mistake and it will backfire,” he said.
Giving a lecture titled Humanities and Natural Sciences at Kisii School recently, Prof Nyasani said there was no one discipline that was better or more preferable than the other. He noted all sciences serve well-intended purposes of enhancing and entrenching the foundation of quality of human life.
“It is obvious that you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. You must be wise enough to appreciate the dangers you will face in case of some unforeseen catastrophe,” the professor of philosophy noted.
Prof Nyasani informed students to strive to diversify their careers.
The don took the students through his motto and mantra; Manufacturing, Managing, Manipulating, Maximising and Exploiting Time, saying that was the only way out for those who wanted to be counted among the intellectual pillars of the country.
He observed any person claiming to be an intellectual must be capable of integrating and synthesising disjointed knowledge into a coherent whole and be able to express it authoritatively.
