President Museveni has demanded that the model of education in schools is changed from the colonial system to achieve social-economic transformation.
Museveni said this while officiating at the close of a 9-day ideological mindset change retreat for Head Teachers from the Greater North regions of West Nile, Lango & Acholi sub-regions at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds on Sunday.
“The problem we have is that people have had colonial education. The type of education designed to make all of you clerks, those white-collar jobs. How can everyone be a clerk? What will you record? We shall have no farmer, no manufacturer, then what shall we record?” he posed.
The President explained that the education system must also focus on the pillars of Agriculture, ICT, Manufacturing among others, in order to achieve social economic transformation.
“People are not creating enough jobs here so you see in Africa people running away for kyeyo, therefore, we do not just need any education but the right type of education, the type that focuses on the creation of jobs and wealth in the four sectors,” he said.
President Museveni cited European states, that have since switched to pragmatic forms of education that encourage Agriculture, manufacturing and skill based education.
“If you go to Europe today, there are no longer peasants, it has become a two-class society, the big manufacturers (Bourgeois) and the skilled working class (Proletariat). So, the problems of Africa have been perpetual, to have a peasant producing a peasant”, the president said.
On Pan Africanism, the President said there is need to increase production to enable surplus products like Milk, sugarcane & maize (before the drought), to further boost our goods & services and unlock the East African and African markets.