Our Education System Must Produce Critical Thinkers

It is encouraging that, after Tanzania adopted a liberalised economy, actors in the private sector have opened schools countrywide, supplementing government efforts to expand access to education.

But there are major concerns about the quality of education we are offering our children. Today, we have students who have spent seven years in primary school and joined Form One, only for their teachers to discover they can neither read nor write. The question that arises is: How did they manage to get the qualifying grade to join secondary school?

We need to review our curriculums so they inculcate/repeat analytical and critical thinking in our youth who are tomorrow’s leaders, after all.