Why new curriculum is better than 8-4-4

‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid’ - Albert Einstein

What is unique about the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) that Government started rolling out from grade One and Three early this year? Certainly, one of the peculiar features about CBC is that it has recognised children are differently endowed in abilities, interests and orientations.Implicit in the 8-4-4 curriculum is the idea intelligence is an indivisible quality within the human mind. The traditional notion of intelligence, based on IQ testing, dominates the 8-4-4 curriculum.