SAUT: STOP COMPLAINING, LET US STUDY

By: Gorwe J. Waryoba

Let me start this discussion by citing some quotations from different scholars on education.  Mandela argues that, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the World”. However, Aristotle states that, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet”. Its high time now, to start afresh with a new spirit, new power, new courage, and new mindset towards study, in this year of study 2016/2017.

As far as I am concerned, as a student at St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) for the third year now; even before joining the University: there had have been a lot of complaints and talks on the number of courses offered and the fixed time table at SAUT. Some students complain, that there are so many courses; which are so much involved at a short period of time. They lament that, when you enter into the campus, you become too busy, no time to rest.

Then, I wonder! When  I hear, even the secondary school pupils, who have not yet even entered in any University:  hearing them discussing on the matter, just by “only hear sayings” from some of  SAUT students on the street. Hence, when some choose and/ or selected to SAUT: as the first year students, they start following the same beat (complaining), which they had have been heard on the SAUT academic matters: even before starting their study.

However, there are good news that I am told by different people and I always here from different industries, and the streets I pass through all over the country about the high proficiency of graduates from the SAUT: in their field of study. If I can sight an example, in the field of education, which I am in; when we do go to the “field practice” in different schools, we meet with various student teachers from different Universities: student teachers from SAUT do the best, as far as academic matters are concerned. If I try to make my reflections on all the happenings, I thank God for the opportunity that I got to be selected to study at SAUT.

Therefore, I would like to urge you, SAUT students; study hard and not to complain about the number of courses and the fixed time table that we have in our University. These are the things which make us the best in our specialisations, and help us be useful, and marketable Worldwide; in different industries and the society at large. The nature of the University  mould us to be multipurpose, and self – reliants   in our lives. “Stop complaining let us study”. 

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