This company just launched in Nigeria.
How harmful will this be to the low class private school sector?
Is it really better for all?
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This is execution on steroids. Phenomenal!
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The guys spent 3 years on research and data crunching. Mad!
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Wow, God’s speed.
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I’m really impressed with the method adopted.
My major concern tho is that, with this “scripted” process, they’ll be building robots and feeding them with whatever they wish to feed them with.
If the governments in Africa aren’t so corrupt, this is what they are supposed to do.
Children are blank slates and anything can be written and etched on them permanently. This, in my opinion, and from looking at what the future/long term effects would be, is that it would further erase core African heritage & identity from the minds of Africa’s future.
Also because this is a process of capitalism, one major driver would be revenue gains; worst still, revenue gains by foreigners who don’t know or appreciate Africa enough to actually teach Africa to the kids.
Summary: This is colonization 2.0 in a fancy cloak
My Opinion: Let them run, but the governments (or any other actual African capitalist) should learn the methods, understand why they are efficient, what makes them efficient, then build exact process while “Africanizing” the principles.
Option 2: Government should closely & properly monitor their curriculum to ensure that the contents are strongly tilted towards African narratives to reinforces African identity in the kids. Offer zero tolerance to contents/materials that negates from this. You shouldn’t come here to take our money and also brainwash our kids.
But I’m absolutely sure none of this is going to happen. We’re going to be our usual corrupt selves and take bribe, while allowing our children to be brainwashed. Forget that you can’t give bribe via the app, Nigerian government would open-up a special process for taxing them. Remember MTN’s 5551*PIN# and the alleged connection to ex-president Obasanjo?
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Was a bit curious when I saw this header. I have a team of seven(7) working on nokschools.com which will not be ready till 2nd half of next year, so I am a bit sweaty whenever I see something educational. Education related products are tasking because of the width and depth of development required.
But looks to me like these guys are looking at pulling some major funds from unicef and united nations. That’s what I see in here.
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Apart from being impressed with their execution and unusual strategy, this was my immediate worry.
It’s potentially a big way to erode values. Sadly the government will most likely not do anything about it.
Not really a solution tho but I think the African parents will revolt sharply if the kids start acting funny.
The effect would be subtle, long-term & systemic. So no child would suddenly start “acting funny” as such.
No one would notice anything for the next 15 to 20 years, until the effect of the Euro-centric (or West-centric) contents starts manifesting. By then, children would detest speaking local languages or taking part in cultural events/ceremonies or engaging in activities that aren’t “fashionable”, as the scripted education had taught them.
I honestly don’t expect Bridge to intentionally set-out to brainwash African children (unless they are wicked enough to actually have an agenda to do so), but that is what they will inevitably achieve by eventually being at forefront of the education of African children. This is because they aren’t Africans and cannot truly appreciate our cultural heritage well enough to pass it on.
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Oh, I think I know about these guys for sometime now. I believe they are saying great stuff already in Kenya or so. Makinde Adeagbo(a certain early Facebook Engineer), now with Pinterest is a backer.