Love for schooling and not learning is holding us back

Coronavirus has negatively affected many sectors and distorted thinking so much that officials make policy mistakes, either knowingly or inadvertently, partly because their minds become so technical that they tend to miss the forest while looking at trees.

Among the sectors having policy formulation problems is education, which tried to come up with solutions to the coronavirus induced school crisis only to fall short of the optimal. The CS George Magoha-led team suggested that the country accepts what amounts to retardation of roughly 12 million children instead of opting to give advantage to the same children. Holding back is retardation, not progress.