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Is Private Tuition unwanted necessity worth the cost?

By Peter Nguli

As the war of words continues between the Education minister and the teachers over holiday school tuition classes, the rot learning continues to wreck havoc on pupils as parents dig deeper in their wallets to pay for the tuition services. But what are the implications of this holiday tuitions to the pupils, parents and teachers? Are they worth the cost?
 
What our education system strives to produce are creative and intelligent youth who will take our country forward into the golden age. Instead, what it mostly produces are robots that possess an amazing capacity for storing facts and churning them out at the press of the right button.

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