By John Kageche

...It is unrealistic to expect a government to consistently generate jobs commensurate to the secondary and tertiary graduates joining the labour market...In any case, expecting a government to offer all the solutions only serves to develop a culture of dependency. How can our education create a mentality of abundance in our students, and not one of scarcity? We must start approaching education as meant for empowerment not employment; for life, not examination. This way even as the student progresses through life she is being filled with the possibility of opportunities that exist for her, and not just the one: “go to school, pass your exams, get to university and get a job”...Among the ways this would be achieved is by appealing to their emotional part of the brain and inculcating character traits which we discover in our adult life as intrinsic to success, yet sadly are not captured in the education curriculum: confidence, high self esteem, belief in self, focus, positive attitude, setting and achieving goals, to name a few; in tandem with this would be entrepreneurship as a way of life...Many are the university and college graduates, with a degree or six-month certificate, who expect the paper earned to work for them...Personal development has been narrowed to only getting another certificate, yet this is only intellectual development, and requires commensurate emotional development to give it substance...More