Issue 20
20 - Education Revisted - What and How Should we Teach
20 - Education Revisted - What and How Should we Teach
- Poetry Corner
THE WISDOM OF ARISTOTLE
G. A. BENNAARS, SCHOLAR, TEACHER, ROLE-MODEL
Professor Gerard Adrian Bennaars died on Boxing Day, 1999. Among those who expressed their condolences through the press were his former students who mourned the loss of a great teacher and educator. They acknowledged that Professor Bennaars had been an inspiration for them and that he was their role model. Dr. Jackton Ogeno, now himself a lecturer, is one of these former students. Below he gives his impressions of Professor Bennaars as a scholar and as his role model.Jackton O. OgenoTHE ILLUSION OF UNIVERSAL FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION IN KENYA
Daniel N. SifunaTEACHING IS TO TOUCH A LIFE FOREVER AN INTERVIEW WITH SR. MARIA PACIS VOGEL
An issue on education cannot be complete without asking some questions about the qualities that make for excellence in education. What are the qualities that make a school stand out among others? How do students learn to appreciate learning, not just in order to pass exams but to develop all their capacities to the full?
To get an answer to these and other questions WAJIBU interviewed Sr. Maria Pacis Vogel, a Missionary Sister of the Precious Blood, originally from Austria. Sr. Maria Pacis is the former principal of Precious Blood Secondary School, Riruta. This provincial secondary school for girls has managed to take the top position in the Kenya Secondary Examination results for quite a number of years. Yet the interesting thing, according to Sr. Maria Pacis, is that the foremost goal of the school is not academic achievement but the integrity and wellbeing of the whole young person. Good results may follow their education in this school but they are not consciously sought.
During the interview, conducted jointly by the publisher and the editor of WAJIBU, Sr. Maria Pacis enlightened us on the many qualities that make this school a shining example to other educational institutions.