Makerere University dons have criticised government\u2019s move to support sciences against humanities, saying it is suffocating critical thinking among the populace.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a dialogue, Mr Mwalimu Bukenya and Dr Arthur Gakwandi described as \u201cbarbaric\u201d the political and public perceptions that humanities and social sciences courses are of old age and cannot be at the centre of development, an argument government used to scrap off scholarships to these courses.<\/p>\n
The two retired literature lecturers asserted that both Science and Arts courses should be given equal treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a violation of our right to education, self expression; our right to choice\u2026the generalisation that humanities don\u2019t create jobs is not true. Look at the faith industry, the fastest growing industry, certainly every week, a new church is coming up and whenever, a church opens, there is a pastor, assistant pastor, you have a choir, ushers,\u201d Mr Bukenya said at the weekend.
\nHe asked the government to stop yielding to pressure from international donors who discourage critical thinking courses like literature.<\/p>\n
Mr Bukenya said the government shouldn\u2019t encourage producing \u2018robotic scientists\u2019 who can\u2019t critically question issues such as giving away mineral resources, land or formulating policies on friendly scientific technologies. These, the professors, say will accelerate\u00a0 neocolonialism.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause they (donors) know that technical people know how to do things but can\u2019t ask provocative questions, they can\u2019t be critical thinkers, that is why they train them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Prof Gakwandi said civil servants and politicians keep advising youths to create jobs yet they have held onto power and public offices for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoliticians used to say to the youth to go back to farming, now the same leaders are saying they want to create job creators not job seekers. These are people who have held public offices for over 30 years and they don\u2019t want to leave. They are now telling young people to create theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n
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