There are more mobile phones in Africa than in Europe and the United States. Now it is said that Africans have more access to phones than toilets, piped water and electricity. But instead of waiting for every African to get access to a landline, we jumped that step and got ourselves mobile phones. Access to telephones was difficult because the presence of landlines was scant. We have done it before in the telecom sector. To answer that question, let’s first look at one area where Africans were able to do just that. Most importantly, can Africa leapfrog in education? I also know our schools need good teachers but since they are so expensive to mint, why can’t we give them something that will make us jump that step, so that our teachers don’t need to teach but facilitate? Why can’t we give them something better that will make textbooks unnecessary? I know our children need textbooks but don’t have them. Isn’t there a cheaper, better and faster way? To boot, there’s no way to guarantee whatever time or money invested will yield the desired teachers. We especially in Nigeria simply do not have that time or the resources required. However, to produce them is extremely expensive and would take a long time. In Africa too, we need millions of good teachers. Accordingly, attention of policy makers has turned to how to multiply such teachers. Yet it is not all kinds of teachers, but a very good teacher. Inside eerie, daring experiences of mortuary attendants.It’s surprising I became a bandit – Turji.I n his bestselling book, Paul Tough cited one of the most exciting conclusions of researchers on education: the solution to extreme poverty is in the school.Īnd it doesn’t lie in the building or the curriculum but in a person: the teacher.
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