Mention of campus to many high school students in Kenya, arouses their ambitions to become great professionals in different fields. Almost every motivational speaker wants to bring a strong point home on the need to work smart in order to acquire a ticket to the university. Such speakers need a hand clap for their positive efforts. However, their work is currently going in vain once the students have passed their KCSE.
With flying colors, majority pass their KCSE examinations, their ambitions rise to another level. Due to the fact that a large percentage of Kenyans rate good parenthood based on the success of their children becoming doctors, lawyers, pilots among other high ranked careers, great minds of the Kenyan high school students are demoralized by unwanted motivation from their closest motivators; parents who turn into dictators.
Taking time to walk along the many streets of our universities gives a clear picture of how Kenya has a great number of hardworking youths. As they walk with a great focus holding their bore and arrow to hit the bull’s eye called degree, masters or diploma. A number of bill boards will show a vivid direction to the different schools of engineering, law, medicine, health sciences, agriculture and less about human resource and development.
Taking more little time to interact with these great Kenyans leaves your mind blowing up with a heavy discovery. Out of ten university students, eight are after a career that they hardly have passion for. Two are lucky enough to follow their passion. The eight have a mission to complete their resent course, take the certificate to their dictators and start a fresh to such for their way back to their very passion.
Parents will brag about the success of their children who have degrees in law, medicine, and engineering among other ‘RIGHT CAREERS’. Are such experiences helping the country? -The young learning under unwanted motivation, parents using money over the same for their own fulfillment and a waste of a bunch of years.
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