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The aim of education is to develop innate powers of children

Pre-primary 2 (PP2) class children entertain guest during the 2022 Twiddle Pips School Graduation Ceremony in Donholm, Nairobi on November 23, 2022. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Former Education Secretary in the now defunct Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology Prof Harry Kaane once declared that the actual customers of education services of a country are employers and not students.

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