The 8-4-4 education system has had very many intellectuals through school but the Country (Kenya) is still the same. All through the primary education the students are trained to pass the exams, more energy and time is spent on not really learning but cramming in order to pass the exam. Why? Because, if you fail you will not go the next class, you will lag behind, you will be considered stupid. Why not focus all that energy towards critical analysis of the many subjects of education? Instead of training the students to repeat what you told them and mark it as right on the answer sheet, how about the teachers challenging the students to relate what they have learnt in class to their experiences outside school and ask them to write about those experiences in relation to your studies. Our education system locks so many doors of opportunities as far as talent and wider range of open thoughts are concerned. You may have not thought of it this way, maybe the students who passed found it
