When State used teacher's spouses for cheap labour

Students doing physical exercises at Jeanes School (Kenya School of Government) Kabete in Kiambu District in June 1960 [File]

There was a time teachers were the only beacons of hope and light in society.

A special pedestal was created in the village for the teacher, whose wife was also adored. Chiefs and other civil servants were envious and unhappy because of this adoration. Unlike today, when parents complain that their children, tutored under the Competence-Based Curriculum, are taking too much, society then expected teachers to work beyond classrooms.