by Benard Makaa | Aug 14, 2017 | Education
Einstein delivered the speech on October 3, 1933 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. As it turned out, the speech was something of a farewell address to his native continent. Four days later Einstein boarded a ship to America and never returned to Europe. The speech...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 24, 2017 | Education
A friend requested for this, and I thought it a good idea to just share with him and everyone else who might be interested. This is a very small percentage record of an event that took almost four hours. The guest’s had inspiring stories of their early beginnings and...
by Benard Makaa | May 15, 2017 | Education, Graduation Speeches
To Be Resilient, Don’t Be Too Virtuous I thought I was done with homework when I finished grad school. But I wanted to be prepared for my commencement speech. So I did what any self-respecting social scientist would do. I started reading studies of graduation...
by Benard Makaa | May 15, 2017 | Education, Graduation Speeches
MP3 Audio https://www.eeducationgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Amazon-founder-and-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-delivers-graduation-speech-at-Princeton-University.mp3 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate...
by Benard Makaa | May 7, 2017 | Education
We ask ourselves what a laptop would do to a child. Why the government would spent billions of Kenyan shillings in buying laptops for standard one kids? How can we objectively answer these concerns? Are there experiments which can help us?Many people have ridiculed...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 26, 2017 | Education, KCPE
This post is a response to a request I received from one primary school teacher to advise on how his pupils can prepare for examinations, and especially the KCPE(2017). I will give my response based on my experience and what I have learned so far. Mind you, at the...
