White Chicken Vs Village Chicken

I recently commented on an interesting Fb post about how high school graduates in Southafrica are doing similar jobs such as bank teller to Zambian university graduates; I basically pointed it out as a shame that we have graduates not pursuing bigger and bolder opportunities in line with all their years of tertiary education.
The Backlash: apparently I stepped on some toes, (which I do Not apologize for), so I spent a good evening explaining where my views are coming from because on the surface, my views may seem like I looking down on Zambian professionals, which is far from the truth because I personally feel that the Zambian graduates are the key to our economic prosperity, however an attitude adjustment is desperately required.
Status Quo: the system that churns out graduates in Zambia is an ancient one which requires an overhaul! Through my interactions with many of our finest scholars from the universities has given me a certain perspective on how limited the capacity for the pursuit of knowledge is in a Zambian uni grad. Of course this is not researched data, and can easily be rubbished by any number of distinguished professors at the run down institutions, but we are on my blog so here we go. I have been told first hand at how the exams are simply memory checks to see how accurately a student can regurgitate answers from a text book, and how the lecturers do not entertain diverse views nor crazy research theories that a progressive thinking student may come up with. Hearing this, I realised that a university student is more focused on cramming and passing that progressively thinking and learning. So for 5 years, this young mind is being trained to be a bot, a cog in a multi national or a parastatal to do the bidding of higher ups with no value addition to the job (that's why we can't produce a steve jobs or bill gates or zuckerberg). So after 5 years of cramming and regurgitation, we get a 'white chicken'.
A white chicken is groomed from the day thee hen lays the egg, it is incubated, hatched, fattened, and slaughtered with no ambition to see the other side of the fence. If you put a bunch of broilers in a wheel burrow, unbound, they'll sit quietly on the way to the slaughter house, because their purpose is not to be tasty (innovative) but to be fattened and slaughtered (standard job and retire), not to roam around (research different theories) but to wait for the red bucket to be full (cram for standard exam).
Now in comparison, the village chicken has a more colourful life, roaming the fields (research), trying out different foods getting nourished and tastier (innovation and application), etc. And the village chicken can't be carried unbound in a wheel burrow, before you take its life, you have to run and chase it and be worthy of it.
My point is that in as much as it is easier to just cram, pass and exist in a job, there is so much more to benefit from pushing the boundaries of education and not waiting for a lecture before adding value to your adult life. Believe it or not, I have conducted research at the University of Zambia to help me run my business better, now imagine the secrets of the universe that an interested student can uncover in 5 years at the university.
Yes there are many countries that a far more developed than we are, imagine using the time at the university to replicate and adapt technology to Zambia instead of taking the easier route of the white chicken.
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