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A Message to Kenyan Universities’ and Colleges’ Graduating Class of 2024

by admin on | 2024-12-30 08:37:23 Last Updated by admin on 2025-01-05 02:13:18

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During this Season of Graduations, I take this opportunity to congratulate you our graduands and all those who supported you in your memorable academic journey. Having been a student in five universities, I know each academic pursuit calls for intellectual rigour, perseverance and sacrifice. No doubt your journey was partially obstructed by frustrations but also paved by signposts of success. Your hard work has now paid off. However, the rest of your life’s pilgrimage will be a mirror image of your exacting scholastic sojourn. As you retire from this graduation ceremony, I challenge you to deeply ponder: What is the qualitative measure of your education thus far? Will your learning serve to secure your own livelihood and that of kin and kith? Can your acquired knowledge help deliver a sustainable future for all communities and groups that you will interact with, your country and continent and the world at large? And finally, how will your training stand the test of time as a fulcrum of lifelong learning? This proposed or recommended selfinterrogation is intended to act as a key challenge that we, the older generations, place at your doorstep as you leave your institution of study. Let me briefly share what education means for the celebrated Nobel laureate and current interim leader of Bangladesh. In his book, A World of Three Zeroes, Muhammad Yunus writes: \"The young people of today are the ones who will lead the world in creating the new civilization we desperately need... “(However) (t)oday\'s youth have only a blurred picture of what kind of world they want... “As an integral part of the education system, I propose that every year each...Read More