Topic: Indigenous education is as important as Western education. (Read 169 times)

I agree with you to some extent but it will be more clearer if we understand few things when it comes to indigenous education, firstl, there are some families that started there lives in the city which is far away from their local homes or village some of this people have not visited their homes since they were born in this case, how will they get indeginous education? do you suggest that a child be taken back to the his or her local village of origin just to acquire indigenous education? I think the best thing is for parents to teach their children about their culture, indigenous language and tradition I believe it will help them to get started.

You make an excellent point. OP, because this is happening in practically every home and every region of the world, it is easy to assume that traditional indigenous education and culture have been abandoned, and many homes now frown on it.

However, as long as people practise that indigenous culture, it means that some families still embrace it and take the time to teach their children about it, even after western education and civilisation have taken over. Whatever area of the world you come from, if your people do not forget their culture and identity, they can still instill it in their offspring and they will have both knowledge and will not be left behind in terms of current events and technological growth in the world today also.

When a person embraces an alien culture, they lose their identity and find themselves out of nowhere and at home unknown. One should constantly prioritise their identity because it is who they are and what they will be recognised with everywhere they go in this world. These should be fostered in schools and made a mandatory curriculum for kids so that they may absorb and cherish their culture as well as employ it in their daily lives.

When a child grow up the very education he will receive is indigenous education, first from his mother then from the household and the society. That's why parents are responsible for the whosever the outcome of their children education prowess.

Parents should be aware of the important of indigenous education on his child, its build the child up to the embrace peace and Harmony. Respect to the value and tradition of their society. We must encourage indigenous education and take it serious before Western education.

Yes, learning the basic language and traditions at home makes the child well grounded in the culture since the parent who are the first teacher will take the time to teach their young kids about their culture language and traditions so that even when they reside outside the country,  they will not miss anything in form of training in both ways,  because western education is also very impotent but the culture of the west is it so important and the most relevant is learnt through the education process.

I have seen some African parents making the mistake of teaching and allowing their children to practise Western culture both at home and school and at that makes them to become a single culture individuals who lack knowledge of their own culture in the long run.

One major reason indigenous education is almost now completely neglected is because of colonization and a well packaged exported culture that has been facilitated from colonial masters who visited some countries and were able to sell their culture and their beliefs as superior and better than the culture of the people that they are colonizing. They introduced new ways of doing things even down to language and religion, and because we accepted our ways as less, these cultures are slowly becoming history. It will be good to be in touch with your culture as you learn new culture.

I think that is a nice way to help the kids not to go astray by learning just one line of culture without balancing it out. To have children who are well knowledgeable in different cultures isn't bad but to have them learn from the home front is wiser. Like some homes make sure that they speak native dialect to the children back home and that helps the children to have advantage , speaking different languages. Those children who know, speak and write different languages perform very well in such languages during school exams than those who barely understand just one language.

We have to agree with the notion that we are in the jet age,  and the computer era has exposed kids to a lot of external cultures and this has created a seamless cultural diffusion among the young kids of this era and the best possible way to go is not to disassociate them with the reality of the time but to always try out means and ways to create cultural awareness for the kids so that while they're exposed to westernization,  they also at the same time learn the culture of their parent no matter the location.

That is why,  we must abide traditional methods of training and communication within the home and allow the school to teach the kids whatever that has to do we Western education and culture.

This is everywhere. Education and modern life have made many not know their roots or know where they come from. What they care about and know about is the modern way of life, nothing more. Anything relating to their indigenous education is assumed a local lifestyle. 

It is true the world is advancing in technology, societal and geographical civilization means of living, but that doesn't mean one should let go of his root, to call it an old fashionable way of living. 

In basic terms, we should all trace back our roots and embrace them than abandon them like is taboo for our culture to be made known to our Western friends and well wishes. 

Our forefathers used to say that "he who lost his custom and tradition lost his originality."  While receiving a Western education is beneficial, it is important to maintain your cultural heritage because it determines your lineage.

Education encompasses even manners, formal or informal way of learning, acculturation etc. Remember education is the process fashioned out from people's way of life too of which language, arts and socio cultural tenets are Integra part of it. So if you have education from someone, you are good as going to also learn all the integra part of it. Manners didn't come different from what is learnt in school, if you have a discipline parents from another educational background like expatriate, they can only do as much that they can when you are at home with them and what about when you are not at home and you are in school, church or mosque and other social gathering outlets?.

Indeed! I understand the idea why western education are being adapted and encouraged, it's because of globalization. Of course, our world is fast-evolving and we need to keep pace with it, and western education allows us to attain this by being globally competitive. But on what expense? to turned from our own culture? But I think we can still resolve this issue if the educational sector would provide a curriculum where they include indigenous education, with this we can still preserve and flourish our cultural heritage and at the same time, developed as a country and be competitive globally.

You can still teach them some basic things about your culture in order for them not to forget everything their ancestors preserved from their local dialect to some exclusive good manners. Because Western education is just teaching children about academics and other scientific stuff which mostly leaves manners. They only learn good manners when they have good companies and friends and when they don't have it, you find your children acting like gang members or other bad behavior. You also find them becoming hostile to their parents instead of loving them like how they used to love them when they were babies.

I can see this too, especially by comparing the childhood of my parents to my own and young kids that grow up now.
For clarity, my parents were children of the 50s and I was a child of the late 80s. People who were growing up in the 20th century spent a lot of time with others. You'd do everything in a group and play outside all day. The main difference between my parents and me was that they had to do a lot more chores, so they'd work around the house and outside, while I had no such responsibilities and would spend time outside playing, while all my chores were inside. Nowadays kids play and work inside. They go from a TV to a computer, from a book to a phone and they don't learn anything on their own, they're taught everything at school. My parents would learn by experiencing, walking around, touching things and observing nature. They'd learn to drive cars by sitting on their father's lap, but now it's not allowed. They'd be allowed to go to the forest on their own, go fishing, now parents are worried that somebody would attack and abduct them, so it's not allowed. As a little kid I'd know how to start a fire, how to cook a simple meal, like baked potatoes, I'd know how to find my way with a compass, how to follow the sun. My parents also knew how to shoot live ammo, because they were taught that at school. They'd know how to operate a radio, build a shelter in the forest, bandage a wound... Now a 5 year old kid knows how to install an app on a smartphone, but doesn't know how to boil an egg.

Children are even the first carrier of evolution, change, acculturation, civilization or whatever nomenclature it is called including globalization. The live of the past is quite far different from now. The rate at which the children learn and adapt to new challenges and situations are overwhelming and that is why you need to keep certain things away from the knowledge of children until they are old enough for it. Technology is not the same and you can get everything you want online, so some parents restrict android phones from their children but because of pair group, school, they will still have such information from friends though in limited form.

So is to be blamed on the death of traditional education. You said it yourself that you can't even give your own kids tradition education because you are not in a village but rather in a city. Traditional education still exists in our local villages,where our grand parents are,they are the right people to impact those knowledge on our kids because we the youths are carried away with technology and civilization.

How can you live in a city and teach your child tradition education when you want your child to be used to western education because you have plans that someday s/he will travel abroad. I believe that those people in the local villages are being thought tradition education. During holidays,you should allow your children to go spend their holidays in the village.

Nothing remains the same, many years ago there was coexistence with nature, but since Western civilization began to permeate every detail of our lives, everything began to change.

You cannot face evolution. You have to go with the flow and keep pace with the changes that are taking place in your society. You also cannot force your children to live the same way you lived because times are changing.

I don't understand first of all what is western education. If you see the overall education system around the world, it's really coming from all the parts of world right now. A lot of new discoveries in Science has been made in the East as well. Also a lot of mathematics has actually come from India as well so I don't understand why people say it's Western better world could be modern. Now talking about language, one should know English primarily because it's generally a world wide known language you'll often find a lot of people speaking it and will help you to adapt there. Talking about indigenous education, the problem is not a lot of cultures distinguish actual knowledge from blind faith, so it makes no sense teaching people Blind faith, but yes Local language is always better to learn.

I agree with you OP. And at that very side of a society, they ignorantly losses values of it's own by itself adapting to dump it's cultures and trace of origin while they adopts a socalled foreign cultures they have no trace about.

A oneness society of different diverse and ethnicities supposed to be of a high profile competitive moral exercises and fun being now seems irritating and abolishing to the so modality offsprings of their ancestors.

If they could dormant their cultures and traditions as much as this I wonder why they did not forbid it's traditional foodies. I guess they understand what life savings it is worth to them by nature.

Yes, upgrade and advancement to technologies is welcoming development but not letting go yours off your origin just to go catch up with an already made foreign.
Is it as any envy of you are only captured and attracted by the things that glitters?
Hell no. You can also be emulated from and your origin and cultures can also been pasted in the international and the foreign boards of notices for no cultures and traditions is inferior to me underrated.

We are not expected to remain the way we are yesterday or 30 years ago. Yes acculturation has taken place and some cultures have melted into others and producing modified version of it. This is the effect of modernity, it brings the good, the bad and the ugly but we need to follow what is right. In Africa in the past, you hardly see ladies dressing almost nude on the streets but today women find pleasure in wearing inner wears they are suppose to feed the husband's eyes with in the house, they expose them all to the public. The men too are not left unblamed, they have portion of their behaviour that have also changed.

The financial system have also witnessed quite a number of changes. As we know, the world financial system is fast moving from a fiat dominated financial system to an optional type with different levels of payment, investment, assets including cryptocurrency.

The aspect of local language that is fast disappearing, to me it is the fault of the government. The government has not made the language a priority rather like you said, foreign language is now an mirror to intelligence, brilliance and standard for achievement, because it is made primary language for the anglophones and francophone countries, this is unfortunate. Some continent however have kept their language and dialect intact like the Asian countries. They use their language as primary language and any other is regarded as secondary.

I leave in a society where our culture and indigenous education are fading away. Parents prefer to expose their children to Western cultures and neglect indigenous cultures. No doubt Western education and culture have led to technological, social, and economic advancement in my country, but we fail to understand that traditional education shouldn't be neglected.

The news of how four Colombian  Indigenous children survived the Amazon jungle for 40 days is a clear example of the importance of indigenous education. Their plane crash into the jungle killing their mother and other adults. The eldest was thirteen and the youngest was just eleven months. According to the report, the children were able to survive because of their indigenous education. They have learned through traditional education from their community how to survive on fruits, seeds, and rainwater. The oldest was able to take care of her siblings, build shelter and protect them from wild animals using local methods.

Today most children from my tribe can't even speak the local dialect because they think that speaking fluent English is education while speaking local languages is illiteracy. I remember those days as children when we can climb trees invested with ants without suffering a single bite with local techniques. When we can find our way home without a guide paddling our local canoes or wandering jungles using local navigation patterns. I also recall those times when we set traps in bushes for animals and go home later to celebrate our catch. I now understand that those skills are vital and that acquiring them was not a waste of time.

Today I look at my children and I see a clear difference between the past and the present. Their generation has been disconnected from their root and connected to a strange culture. I am also guilty of spreading the misconception that indigenous education is not important because I have failed to expose my children to them.