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Musicians Should be Doing this in our Schools

Entertainment is very important in our schools as it provides the avenue for our future leaders to release stress and take some time off the usual rigourous academic routines. It is very common to see musicians putting up spectacular performances in senior high schools and the universities to the joy of students. These shows doesn't come cheap especially at the university level. Entertainment is not bad in it self but must it be always entertainment when these musicians visit our schools? This article will look at other areas musicians can explore when they visit our schools. Mentoring sessions Mentoring sessions are very important especially at the senior high school level where students are mostly in their youth. Musicians can liase with school authorities to organize mentoring sessions in schools to assist students in diverse ways. This will benefit students who dream of a career in the music industry. These all-important mentoring sessions will expose young ones to the realitie

Passion or survival

I can recall vividly a day when my ICT (Information Communication Technology) lecturer asked "how many of you would like to become teachers after school?" Initially, I thought that was a silly question because everyone in to study if you want to teach in a basic school. So why would we be here in the first place if we do not want to be teachers? I quizzed silently. One might presume that all the students in the lecture hall were aspiring to be teachers but don't be misled. In a class of over 100 students only less than 10 said they wanted be teachers in future. So why do people who do not want to be teachers get themselves trained as professional teachers?  That question would be best answered by the students themselves.  As a teacher myself, I have had the privilege to interact with a lot of teachers and 'teachers'.  Teachers here means those who are trained and want to be teachers. Whereas 'teachers' means those who are trained as teachers but do not wan