This archive report was first published on 27 April 2020.
Published on April 27, 2020, a lively discussion on The Morning Kiss with Kamene and Kibe took listeners back to their school days, highlighting the useless things they learned.
According to Kamene, some maths topics were really very irrelevant, while Kibe felt that some Swahili and Chemistry topics were equally useless. This sparked a wave of hilarious stories from callers, providing a much-needed laugh amidst the tough times.
Warui shared his experience with Kiswahili set books, analyzing characters and their moods, which he felt had no practical application in life. John echoed similar sentiments about periodic tables in chemistry, while Peter questioned the relevance of geography lessons on the earth's formation.
Other callers, including Johnte, Joyce, Ian, and Susan, shared their own stories of useless school lessons, from drawing angels to meet points in maths to learning about solvery processes in Chemistry. Kamene and Kibe reminisced about their own school days, recalling lessons on close and open stomata in Biology and the use of microscopes to identify cells.
As the discussion continued, callers expressed frustration with the education system in Kenya, feeling that it was overrated and a scam. They questioned the practicality of lessons such as kunyambua kitenzi and tanakali za sauti kulia kwi kwi kwi in Swahili, as well as Insha's and calculus in maths.
