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  The general purpose of education, the purpose of education in Kenya, and how it has changed over time. What is Education Education is a total process by which human abilities and behaviors are developed (Ndaloh et al, 2009). This is done through imparting appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the learners to enable their awareness, appreciation and preservation of their cultural heritage and also their creativity in modifying and even shaping this culture for their benefit and that of their society (Mwaka et al., 2013). What is The Purpose of Education? The purpose of education is the creation of a compassionate and creative student who will help develop and sustain a just society where all individuals are able to live happy, fulfilled lives — as free from pain and suffering as possible (Roberts 2020). Education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more effici
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  LESSONS FOR KENYA FROM THE ETHIOPIAN WAR: Ethiopia is crumbling before our very eyes, the reason are spillovers from historical injustices since the days of the ethiopian emperor Menelik II in the 1880s he Amharanized the country which as an idea that many non-Amhara tribes didn't like, infact he forcibly took Oromo land and gave it to the Amhara- the capital of Ethiopia sits on Oromo land. The autocratic Emperor Haile Selassie made things worse with his ineptitude and support for slavery and feudalism by his ''shum shir'' policy in the 1970s which demanded hefty taxes from peasants, infact in 1943, 1963 and 1970 the Tigreans, the Somali and Oromo/Borana took up arms against Haile Sellasie to resist the exploitative and dehumanizing ''shum shir'' policy. Col Mengistu, Meles Zenawi, Haile Mariam Desalegn and Dr Abiy has the oportunity to fix gross inequalities and solder Ethiopia..but for some reason these men failed to heal their country, now this