It is quite a long time I
have been asking myself several questions relating to surrounding environments,
that is, both living(sorrounding society) and non-living environment. These
questions have become my day to day challenges as the University student, which
I hope it is through these challenging questions I will reach my final
destination.
The
most challenging question which has been confusing my brain is “Does
this phrase fair to me?”. When you move around sorrounding society you
will several hear this phrase “University professionals” being
referred to students at the University level. It becomes very difficult to me
judge whether I qualify to be called as the University professional with regard
to what I have done to my sorrounding society so as to satisfy this phrase. The
civil rights leader;J.R, Martin Luther King said;
“The function of education is to teach one to
think intensively and
to think critically...............Intelligence plus character-that is
the goal
of true education”.
Several questions arise such as ; Do we use our
University education to think critically?, Do we use our University education
to overcome social problems?, Do we use our acquired intelligence to be
deterministic to future development of our nation?, Do we use our University
education to eliminate social crime? Or instead of this we have been
accelerator of social degradation(social decay)? Do we use our University
education to discover new ways of agricultural development? My
answer to these questions is between “Yes” and “No”.
The
French philosopher and mathematicians; Pascal Blaise said;
“There
are two major kinds of people; namely; seekers and
non-seekers”
My hope at this level is to have many seekers
rather than non-seekers. Being the seeker doesn't involve depending only on
Lecturers' handouts and “simbi” but
it involves searching of different literatures which will help us to be real
“University professionals” which will also
be determined by our action within our society.
“Knowledge will forever govern
ignorance; and people who
mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with
the power which knowledge
gives”(The late President of U.S.A;
James Madison).
The question comes, Have we used
or do we use our University knowledge to govern ourselves?. My
answer is between “Yes” and “No”. Let us now stand upright to make sure that we become our own
governors by taking the symbol of acquired knowledge at the University level so
as to control our daily life challenges in our society.
A.M.BILONDWA
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