There is a big question posed to the generation of today and the one that existed before now; How can we ensure that our children are not tackling the same problems of our time with the same strategy as ours? Issues like Gender inequality, Climate Change, Malaria, Unemployment, HIV/AIDS, Conflict, Terrorism and most recent addition Ebola require institutions that will prepare citizens to tackle it strategically. It is high time we realized that tackling the effects of a problem will not solve the problem, we need to address the cause of the problem. Quality education should equip students with the necessary skills to solve problems.

Many times I have asked graduates from different institutions what they plan to do with their life after school. In most cases many of them do not have an idea of what they want to do. They approach life with a mindset of ‘what will be will be’. The issue is that we cannot confront the challenges that have plagued us for so long with that mindset. Maybe the bigger challenge is on how we can restructure our education system to prepare students better to face real world challenges. Sometimes ago I listened to someone compare life in school to life after school, this is the simple explanation from the person I can’t remember ‘In school, your lecturers give you the lesson before the exam, In reality your employer or Mr experience give you the exam before the lesson’. It is exactly opposite.