Schooling or education? The difference lies in relevance
A graduation ceremony at Kenya’s Maasai Mara University. We never connected out education to our environment and so though we were intelligent, we still had to import the brains to harness our resources. FILE PHOTO | NMG
As I have shared my thoughts on the difference between civilisation and development, one other area that we need to address is the difference between intelligence and relevance; something that could be one of the problems plaguing our society.
The owners of the future will not be paid for their intelligence. They will be paid for their relevance. Relevance is not a function of how intelligent you are, neither is it a function of size or present day success.
