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*Umrabulo was a word used to inspire political discussion and debate on Robben Island. [accessed:

http://www.anc.org.za/list.php?t=Umrabulo]

The invaluable quality of proper and enough education

We must all admit it that education is important and that proper and enough education

is even more important.

For so long many of us, countries and other nations have been making a very costly mistake of

neglecting the other different aspects and other forms of education be part of our teaching and

learning programmes. This negligence is one of the factors of what has caused many nations to

have such unbalanced and unstable societies. In fact, it is the very reason why so many believed

that what had happened last year in the United Kingdom was a display and public show of a

moral crisis or breakdown witnessed in the youth of the UK, because they had lacked moral

education. Of which later on Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, spoke against such

a conception of moral degeneration; which is not the point in our scope.

In as much as a person is not just only a mind or body and therefore you only feed his

intellectual capacity, there should be other means as well to integrate all of these other forms or

parts of education, such as, for instance:

(1) social education, which will speak more about how we relate with one another how we

relate to other people and how they relate with us;

(2) cultural education, which will be quite helpful when it comes to the cultivation of the mind

and cultivation of inwardness or free individuality and personal identity; very handy in giving

the learner a stem of character;

(3) political education, for an example, a very good example, in the Eastern Cape they have what

they call Umrabulo* as their form of political education, educating young people about the

politics and political matters;

(4) moral education, there are so many platforms in South Africa aimed at achieving just this

moral regeneration. This is also a very significant part of education and a widely questioned

subject abroad. Many people are asking themselves why do morals seem to deteriorate, well,

they just need to be taught and well integrated into the children learning programmes; form a

tender age children should already be given this as a form of basic education, whether at home

or at school;

(5) spiritual education, in the past there used to be a subject that was committed to spiritual

consciousness and growth called Bibs or Bible Studies, overtime that subject was removed

from the system in any schools and this, I believe, was after the latest 1996 amendment of the

new constitution. In chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights, section 15 it states: Everyone has the right to

freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion.

(6) constitution education, wherefore, which will be the field that will benefit and reach

everyone so they know the law and their rights, correctly, and not just calling them from the

skies whenever; without even half the knowledge of what they are talking about.

In the title above it is indicated proper and enough education, the education that is currently

given may be proper but is just not enough What use is it, really, if a student is just

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*Umrabulo was a word used to inspire political discussion and debate on Robben Island. [accessed:

http://www.anc.org.za/list.php?t=Umrabulo]

incapacitated with the academia and only intellectually stimulated if he will lack some the basic

and most key qualities he will need in life to use and apply when interacting with others etc.?

Maybe the kind of education we are receiving and the curriculum may liken to be reviewed and

advanced with these factors, some of which I have shared, in mind.

Education will only be enough when it isgiven all of it and the learner will learn as they become afully-developed human being. An even more empowered society will be fabricated with the

proper and enough education that covers knowledge at all levels.

Nelson Sithole, aspiring Author

BCom Accounting student at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.