President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged teachers to utilize 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 there are some people who look 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 miseducating,” President Museveni said.
The President made the remarks yesterday 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”.
