Museveni tasks teachers to utilise their professional knowledge to transform Uganda

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni urged teachers to utilise their professional knowledge to transform Uganda socially and economically.

“In your education system, when you say you are a social scientist, you find a peasant producing another peasant and you don’t see that as a problem and you continue teaching, what are you teaching? Why don’t you see that there’s social stagnation here and in some cases social regression? We have been having some scuffles over the issue of the correct approach to knowledge transfer ever since independence because some people looked at education as a means of copying foreign things and trying to be Europeans. Of course, we didn’t agree with those people and we used to have normal scuffles and we struggled against that type of miseducation,” President Museveni said.

The President made the remarks on Thursday while presiding over the commemoration of World Teachers’ Day at Kololo Independence Grounds. The event ran under the theme “The teachers we need for the education we want: the global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage”.

Gen. Museveni explained that the correct approach to knowledge transfer involves three parts which include the basic tools (reading, writing and counting), the study of society and the study of nature which can improve people’s welfare or damage it.