Bahamian Student Graduating in December seeks job.

[a1000]

Im sorry I guess I didnt read the whole thing I have put a copy of my resume at the bottom. Sorry about the format this thing doesnt allow reformatting
Education: Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience December 2005
Saint Augustine’s College Nassau, Bahamas
June 2001
Skills: Basic understanding of written and spoken French, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Works, Windows, Microsoft Publisher, Lab Skills (Biology, Chemistry, Physics,Psychology) worked with and taught kids from the age of 2 – 17.
Work Experience:
Summer 2001 & 2002 Holy Family Catholic Church Nassau, Bahamas
CAMP COUNSELOR:
• Supervised groups of at least 15 children ages 2-17.
• Taught elementary Mathematics, English, French, Religion and Physical Education.
• Developed recreation programs for summer camp.
Fall 2001-Summer 2002
Lafayette College Kirby Gym Sports Center
Easton, Pennsylvania
FACILITY SUPERVISOR:
•Supervised front desk and three 3 employees, a gymnasium containing three multipurpose courts, jogging track, 35-foot climbing wall, fitness center, aerobics area and weight room.
•Trained employees in policy and operational running of the gym.
Lafayette College Kirby Gym Sports Center
Easton, Pennsylvania
FITNESS ASSISTANT:
•Provided professional advice and instruction on equipment usage and exercise technique involving cardiovascular exercise, weight training, and stretching to maximize students and faculties work out plans.
•Maintained upkeep of a full circuit of 30 strength machines, free-weight area and over 30 pieces of cardiovascular equipment.
Summer 2002-Summer 2003
Lafayette College Intercultural Development Office
Easton, Pennsylvania
STUDENT COORDINATOR:
•Planned Intercultural and Diversity events on campus.
•Functioned as student representative on boards that focused on the general campus climate with respect to diversity.
•Established art exhibits, lectures, workshops, formal evening dinners for campus guests, discussion groups with guest speakers, alumni events, films, poetry slams, and community events that promoted a greater understanding of the importance of pluralism and unity.
Summer 2003
The College of The Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas
SUMMER SCHOOL TUTOR:
•Tutored high school children in Math and English for the pre- college program
August 2003 –August 2004
Lafayette College Student Activities Office Easton, Pennsylvania
STUDENT MANAGER:
•Worked with office staff in creating and facilitating well-rounded programs of co curricular activities for students that were educational, encouraged personal, leadership, and community development.
•Organized quality social and leisure-time opportunities.
•Also oversaw the student center facilities at night which included the Limburg Theater, meeting rooms, the multipurpose room, a student activities workroom, and the nine office space student organizations, programs, and services.
Summer 2004
Nassau Flight Services Nassau, Bahamas
TICKET COUNTER AGENT AND TERMINAL HOSTESS:
•Performed check-in and gate services.
•Actively looked for ways to assist customers.
• Prepared reports showing place of departure and destination number of passengers and passenger ticket numbers.
•Utilized customer service skills as well as management skills.
Winter 2005
Robin Hood Nassau, Bahamas
COLLECTIONS OFFICER:
•Planned, organized and coordinated Robin Hood’s collection functions.
•Collected and serviced delinquent funds from customers and businesses.
Spring 2005
Lafayette College Alumni Office Easton, Pennsylvania
STUDENT AMBASSADOR:
Worked for the college as a Public Relations Officer and Fundraiser.
•Served as a phon-a-thon caller soliciting donations from alumni and parents for Lafayette College.
Neuroscience experience:
Fall 2003- Spring 2004 Lafayette College
As group leader organized group project, facilitated communication between 4 group members, delegated suggestions and duties to other team members and structured PowerPoint presentation and report on the stereotaxic surgery on a Wistar Rat in order to record nerve activity in the nucleus accumbens while manipulating nerve activity using amphetamines.
Spring 2005 Lafayette College
Organized group project and report on the effects on neurogenesis due to shock on a crayfish in the 9 and 10 clusters of the brain.
Independent Study:
Spring 2005 Lafayette College
Created research project and wrote of antiepileptic drugs and other treatments used in childhood epilepsy on neurodegeneration in the brain.
Women’s Studies Experience:
Fall 2005 Lafayette College & Easton High School
Tutored and designed various grants, scholarships and programs for teenage mothers attending local high school in order to help them stay in school.
Awards and Certificates
BJC: Mathematics, English, Health Science, General Science, Social Studies
BGCSE: Mathematics (Higher Level), English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Physics (All grades C and higher)
Honor Roll – (1995-2001)
Extracurricular Activities
Lafayette: Fall 2001 to present, The Black Woman's Association (NIA), Lafayette Christian Fellowship, Treasurer and Historian of the Lafayette African and Caribbean Student Association, International Students Association, Association of Black Collegians, Phon-a-thon Caller, Concert Band, Intramural Women’s Flag Football, Minority Science and Engineers Association. Have acted in Vagina Monologues, A Tempest, and The Colored Museum. Choreographed Dances for: For Women Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Was Enuf.
Nassau, Bahamas: Track and Field (1996- 1998), National School of Dance (1990 – 1998), Piano (1990 –2001), Sunday School Teacher (1998 – 2001), Girl Guides and Rangers (1995 – 2001), Altar Server, Anchor Club, Math Tutor, Junior Achievement, Student Christian Movement, Computer Club, The Beacon (yearbook), Youth Choir, Liturgical Dance, Organist.
President of Youth Group: (2000- 2001)
Volunteer Experience:
Spring 2003 Kids in the Community (KIC)
In after school program assisted kids with their homework and created projects (e.g. arts and drafts for them as well
Spring 2005
Worked with the KIC program to introduce neuroscience concepts to kids in this after school program.

For all my granola crunching , dirt worshiping hippie comrades I am back, to all the non critical thinking block heads (and you know who you are) the heat is on, those of you growing and living in this continuum doing the best you can I feel you, and for the rest the seventh generation keep hope alive.
Wow it feels great being release from 40 days and 40 nights of internet fasting, as a healer I would say that this would be a great benefit to many of you in here to un plug your selves from the internet go and live among the people and listen to them and grow and love and dream with them.
However as my teacher John H Clarke taught me education has but one purpose and that is to make the student a responsible handler of power. Its unfortunate that you have not spent your time becoming a handler of power if you did you would not be seeking a job you would be returning home creating industry. I repeat my thesis that the country should put a moratorium on this higher level of ignorance and replace it with education, then just may be we can get are selves straiten out.

[bahmaboy]

I am sorry A100 but this creating industry sounds all good and well but do u know how difficult that is to do. this girl needs a job so she can live, pay off loans and stuff. are you willing to finance her while she makes no money but probably goes deeper into debt trying to create industry?

[a1000]

Marco Bridgewater: i never said it was easy but; If you were in a education program you would know how to acquire the resources that are necessary for your venture, this is what education dose for the individual. What passes as education is the training of persons to be clogs in the great capitalistic/communistic market. You should attempt to find ways around your challenges, this is what any educated person would do, i recommend studing the life of hanibal and his fight against rome, if you want to know about what a educated person can do? look at hanibal.

Bahamaboy aint it great when you can quote your own work, lol, but on the fo real tip, I am dealing with the concept of education, what it is and what it is not. Do you feel where i am coming from?

[bahmaboy]

Bahamaboy aint it great when you can quote your own work, lol, but on the fo real tip, I am dealing with the concept of education, what it is and what it is not. Do you feel where i am coming from?


yes i did get where you were coming from but the reality is this person needs a job not to create industry. the thought is nice but the resources are probably not there.

[AnjaNicole]

For all my granola crunching , dirt worshiping hippie comrades I am back, to all the non critical thinking block heads (and you know who you are) the heat is on, those of you growing and living in this continuum doing the best you can I feel you, and for the rest the seventh generation keep hope alive.
Wow it feels great being release from 40 days and 40 nights of internet fasting, as a healer I would say that this would be a great benefit to many of you in here to un plug your selves from the internet go and live among the people and listen to them and grow and love and dream with them.
However as my teacher John H Clarke taught me education has but one purpose and that is to make the student a responsible handler of power. Its unfortunate that you have not spent your time becoming a handler of power if you did you would not be seeking a job you would be returning home creating industry. I repeat my thesis that the country should put a moratorium on this higher level of ignorance and replace it with education, then just may be we can get are selves straiten out.



In reply to your reply. Creating industries has nothing to do with being a handler of power, its a manner of being a handler and an accessor of resources. Being a student IS being a handler of power. Knowledge is power. And with this knowledge we do have a responsibilty and the capacity to help others in some cases our country to expand and improve. But improvement does not come by with creating industries. Im sorry who ever told you that cannot be a Bahamian because if they were they would know that the Bahamas has many industries many of which are not at their best. So why create industries when we can improve the ones that we have in order to expand into other industries in the future. Dont be like Bush who crossed the waters to so call help other people when there are so many of his own people on the same continent in need of Government assistant. Deal with what we have now so we can expand in the future not sink. And by the way if you havent noticed I HAVE SPENT 16 YEARS OF MY LIFE BECOMING A HANDLER OF POWER.

[a1000]

In reply to your reply. Creating industries has nothing to do with being a handler of power, its a manner of being a handler and an accessor of resources. Being a student IS being a handler of power. Knowledge is power. And with this knowledge we do have a responsibilty and the capacity to help others in some cases our country to expand and improve. But improvement does not come by with creating industries. Im sorry who ever told you that cannot be a Bahamian because if they were they would know that the Bahamas has many industries many of which are not at their best. So why create industries when we can improve the ones that we have in order to expand into other industries in the future. Dont be like Bush who crossed the waters to so call help other people when there are so many of his own people on the same continent in need of Government assistant. Deal with what we have now so we can expand in the future not sink. And by the way if you havent noticed I HAVE SPENT 16 YEARS OF MY LIFE BECOMING A HANDLER OF POWER.In reply to your reply. Creating industries has nothing to do with being a handler of power, its a manner of being a handler and an accessor of resources. Being a student IS being a handler of power. Knowledge is power. And



Where are my granola bar crunching tree hugging, dirt worshiping hippie comrades when I need them? Namaste all, I trust that you do realize the time that we are in? Bahmaboy the argument continues i hope this helps to explain my position better. Sapadilly thanks for the application, however i am dealing with the philosophy of education itself and calling for a revolution with in it?
AnjaNicole:I am sorry; but there is a misunderstanding here, my post are concerned with the issue of a graduating student seeking a job, and the relevance of higher levels of ignorance (education?) as it relates to the development of the country. I am calling for a mandatory ban on higher levels of ignorance (education?) until the Bahamas can in still in its people the concept of nation building. Education as I formally learnt from John h Clarke, but I informally learnt from my family and in the village is the ability to handle power. power as it is used in this argument is the ability to define reality. I have made a distinction in terms of education and what goes on in most colleges, universities and grade schools because these train persons to become clogs in society, and you by your post provided me with the classical example. Go to school graduate and look for a job. This is in contrast to the concept of education as I am putting forth which is look at the Bahamas, look at your innate gifts and see how the marriage of these gifts lead to the development of self and country. If you had taken this approach then your life in the institution of ignorance would be much different, you would have left there with the ability to put your vision of the world into practice. Do you get it? Do you get it? Do you get it? What I am saying is that you have not been educated you have been made into a clog in the wheel of this economic system you don’t even have the capacity to see the world around you and take advantage of the trends, you are a body needing a job to grease the wheels of some company. You are in essence a slave to the dollar. I was that way once but now I am saved.

[YorickBrown]

AnjaNicole,

Your best bet is to apply for the 1 year work permit that is included with your student visa. As time is running short, go to your International Student Advisor on campus as soon as possible. Every Bahamian student abroad should try to get some US work experience under their belt and learn as much as possible before they come back home. Usually the experience abroad really develops one's appetite for enhancing their career, instead of totally squelching it, as is commonly the case here in this country.

In a specialty area such as yours, expecting to attain a job in The Bahamas right out of University will only test the limits of your professional patience. There are limited avenues for growth and it will be good for you to make professional contacts in the global arena before you enter the confines of the local medical industry.

Meanwhile, while you gain work experience (or if you want to forego gaining work experience abroad), you can fax your resume to:

Rand Memorial Hospital (Freeport) - 242-352-6791 (fax) 242-352-6735(phone)

Princess Margaret Hospital - 242-322-2861 thru 65 (phone)

Lyford Cay Hospital - 242-362-4493 (fax) 242-362-4400 (phone)

Sandilands Psychiatric Hospital - 242-324-3922 (fax) 242-324-1246(phone)

Doctor's Hospital - 242-323-4801 (fax) 242-302-4605 (phone)

The objective is to let the local industry hear about the wonderful things that you are doing over there. This way you can build professional respect and then make the decision of where your career is headed. It's all up to you.

[a1000]

So yes, I agree, we need to get away from this mentallity of just getting a job, any job. You are right we need to create new ways to contribute to our VERY YOUNG and growing society. However, I beleive the problem is changing the mindset and not just putting a freeze on higher education. We need to change the reason ppl are going to school (higher education) not just stop them from doing so.

I am very familiar with the work of Prof. John Henrick Clarke, he was a sociologist like myself and comes from a very the socialist tradition held by my current department at school. This is the very reason I am in the process of becoming a becoming a professor. Our children need to be exposed to these ideas, well before the leave the island to further there education. However, form a functionalist perspective coggs are needed to make society fuction , but we can equipe them with better ideals so that it can function toward the greater good and not just to sustain the status quo.

If we look at this scenario, it is very common in post-colonial societies and the work of thinkers like Fanon et al, is what our children need in order to become critical thinkers and not just accept that which has been embedded by our colonizers.


I just have to pay respect to my peeps in Flipmode Squad, My Country Folk, Those Block Heads and you know who you are, my granola bar crunching tree hugging dirt worshipping Hippie Comrades standing together and the seventh generation; to all Namaste.

Sapadilly: have you been in the company of Flipmode Squad? I enjoyed reading your post, its great knowing that there are others exploring the works of Franz Fanon. It interesting that you mention his name, as I am working on a study of leadership and changing mind set, along with rereading his material as reference.


I have been looking at the concept of what is called higher education for almost 20 years now, and I have come to the conclusion that the best solution is a moratorium. I don’t know how long it would last but I do believe that the revolution of the philosophy of education is a major undertaking. It will not be just aimed at the youth but it will be aimed at each level of society at its very core would be mandatory:


1. Critical thinking skills
2. World history studies, with special attention placed on Africa and the Carrie bean,
3. Language studies, (Yoruba, wolfed, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese are examples)
4. Mental and physical wellness
5. Martial arts
6. Citizenship redefine
7. Law
8. Cultural Maintence and defence
9 A new economic model
10 memory skills


These are the new key areas of this revolutionary educational shift, the moratorium is mandatory as it will allow our people at all levels time to grasp the deeper vision of the new society. The more I open myself up to the idea the more beautiful it becomes, but our people have to be able access various techniques but still maintain their cultural center. What we receive in universities are techniques, under are present system of education they call it education, I am saying that its not it’s the learning of techniques whether it be engineering, medicine, veterinarian medicine these are techniques this is what we have to instill in our people. These techniques do not come with out their cultural bias and one has to be able to strip that from the technique, therefore we cannot have our people interacting in the world from a position of naivety. As a people this new shift will allow us to use our time in a much more effective way, when one travels the path of being a student, ones mind is orientated in such a way that you are finding direct application of ones technique to society, you are constantly seeking out others in your field building professional acquaintances. Let us take a student say Anna Nichole and let’s say she has undergone this educational shift, she leaves and attends MIT to study mechanical engineering for 6 years at the end of which she will receive her PHD. Her actions would be finding other mechanical engineers building relationships with them learning from their years of experiences. She would have an idea of what is needed in the country, or what type of industry she wishes to bring into existence, thus she would be accessing persons who have carried out the task that she wishes. Not only would Anna Nichole be building relationships with professionals in her field but she would be building relationship among her peers, as she realizes that they can assist her and she them in their respective developments.

However the only way I see we can develop Anna Nichole is to pace that moratorium on higher levels of ignorance (they call it education) so that the time can be devoted to developing in these new students this grand vision of the Bahamas. Once again I say place a moratorium on higher levels of ignorance and do it now. this should be the call of every citizen, we cannot continue to participate in the world in this manner.

[Vicky]

Hello, sadly you need capital to start a business – let alone a new industry… I am a manufacture. At present, I can only manufacture software. It is one of the few things that can be done with little capital. Yet, it costs a lot – in terms of time and sleep.
I can also do other things, but my resources are limited. I’d be glad to start a new industry, but it is not as easy as you might think… Getting a loan is only a small portion of the problem. (Wish I had more “time” to discuss further :( )

Its easy to talk of new industry when you are only talking. The tariff system kills most mfg in the Bahamas. How do you get a loan from the bank if you don't know if the following year you will be approved for duty exemption. Then you have to deal with Bahamians that don't buy Bahamian. I can't wait for FTAA.

[Vicky]

Bahamaboy aint it great when you can quote your own work, lol, but on the fo real tip, I am dealing with the concept of education, what it is and what it is not. Do you feel where i am coming from?


Get all the training, education, and skills you want if you have no capitol you can't do anything. Most won't even hire you with no experience. Oh but how will you get experience if no one will hire you.

You have to remember it is not what you know but who you know down here.

Well that is if you are not going to work at one of these fast food joints.

Money goes to money. Who shops at Kelly's or the small shop on the corner.

[Vicky]

What I am saying is that you have not been educated you have been made into a clog in the wheel of this economic system you don’t even have the capacity to see the world around you and take advantage of the trends, you are a body needing a job to grease the wheels of some company. You are in essence a slave to the dollar. I was that way once but now I am saved.


You say you write computer programs... Ok name a few you have done oh great one.

What would you do if you had no computer???

[a1000]

a1000: No I have no idea who the Flipmode squad are (besides Busta Rhymes and his cohorts LOL). I understand your thinking but I beleive that we can change the mindset if we changed the cirriuclum as you have outlined.


We are seriously and dangerously entrenched in post-colonial mindset, which leads to further alienation, exploitation and oppression. I beleive that we can still provide an education to our youth, but we need to develope an indigenous cirriculum not one that simply mirrors that of our colonizers or benefactors, but one that serves the needs of the creolized society that we live in. We really need to begin to recognize the uniqueness of our identity and get away from the followoers mentality we have been programmed to beleive is the most benficial.


I have friends at thome in COB who are trying to do just that, I beleive in changing from within the system. Of course this leaves you open to being co-opted as E.W. Said taught, but if you are aware of it you can indeed rise above it.


So as a future Professor, I can not support a moratorium and but I do beleive that those us with true knowledge of self and our true identity can impart these things to the youth within the hallowed halls of the academy. After all that is exactly what education and the "life of the mind" is all about.
Peace and blessings
SAP
BTW, I spoke with my chari today about your view on Prof. Clarke, he was a very close frined and associate as they both worked at my school together for many years. If you want to talk fruther about him or Fanon, Chomsky, Trouillot or tothers IM me. Until then!
Re: Bahamian Student Graduating in December seeks job.

Sapadilly: Namaste, a Hindi word meaning I honor the place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, love truth and justice, when you are there and I am there we are one.


A small note on up coming events in January there will be the African student leadership conference in holly springs Mississippi, it’s a very empowering event I am going with a group I would recommend that you attend. Thanks for the heads up on the im and on chomsky may be we should do a conscious/ revolutionary book list post so that we can compare materials since our objectives are the same despite the difference in technique.


Returning to the argument, I am in agreement with you in terms of an understanding of what the nature of the problem. However where our disagreements lie is in how to solve the problem:

1. Impose a mandatory ban on higher level of ignorance ( aka some times called higher levels of education) over seas.

2. Work within the system.

I am pushing for a mandatory ban, due to the fact that there will be a change in the cultural matrix of the society; I have posted on the issue of the cultural matrix under the post armed police in schools and under the post civil liberties. There is a common thread in all these post and since I am afflicted with synthesis I read the entire collective of post from a cultural matrix perspective.


Why a ban? Time is needed for the society as a whole to absorb new concepts into its cultural matrix. Old and destructive concepts must be removed, this process will leave individuals weak and susceptive other cultural matrices, thus we would want to protect individuals and the society until it is ready to engage the world again. The society will be infused with a new vision, at each level, from the fetus level to the elderly adult, each generation is being given the cultural vision, such that it will be grow from generation to generation, at the conscious and subconscious level. This change will result in the sweeping away of old forms, that is the present system of education, general orders and would I go as far as saying that even the system of government would be swept away resulting in new dynamic holistic systems of living. In fact this revolution will manifest it self in all nine areas of a people’s activity:

1. economics

2. education

3. entertainment

4. labor

5. law

6. politics

7. religion

8. sex

9. war


I am calling on a mandatory ban on higher levels of ignorance (aka education) over seas, in part because at these moments we have the resources to create the educational system that is needed for our particular situation. The ban will force those lazadasical intellectuals that we have among us to come to the vanguard position, it will force the revolution of the boarded up schools, and there is so much possibility when a people stop looking to others for their salvation and look to themselves. This is the rational for the ban it forces us to look at our selves, and it will get rid of the reactionaries and the bourgeoisie among us who live for the exploitation of the people. I say bring on the ban bring it on yesterday back in 1992 when I campaigned for the FNM I thought the revolution had begun when we got rid of the PLP but we as a people did not push the envelope Now Is The Time, Ban Higher Education over seas.

No more students going over seas with empty heads looking to be filled and coming back looking for jobs. Make COB real, Make the educational system real. This is my position.

[CG]

.....I am calling on a mandatory ban on higher levels of ignorance (aka education) over seas, in part because at these moments we have the resources to create the educational system that is needed for our particular situation. The ban will force those lazadasical intellectuals that we have among us to come to the vanguard position, it will force the revolution of the boarded up schools, and there is so much possibility when a people stop looking to others for their salvation and look to themselves. This is the rational for the ban it forces us to look at our selves, and it will get rid of the reactionaries and the bourgeoisie among us who live for the exploitation of the people....
I think Pol Pot already tried that!

[YorickBrown]

Re: Bahamian Student Graduating in December seeks job.
Sapadilly: Namaste, a Hindi word meaning I honor the place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, love truth and justice, when you are there and I am there we are one.
A small note on up coming events in January there will be the African student leadership conference in holly springs Mississippi, it’s a very empowering event I am going with a group I would recommend that you attend. Thanks for the heads up on the im and on chomsky may be we should do a conscious/ revolutionary book list post so that we can compare materials since our objectives are the same despite the difference in technique.
Returning to the argument, I am in agreement with you in terms of an understanding of what the nature of the problem. However where our disagreements lie is in how to solve the problem:
1. Impose a mandatory ban on higher level of ignorance ( aka some times called higher levels of education) over seas.
2. Work within the system.
I am pushing for a mandatory ban, due to the fact that there will be a change in the cultural matrix of the society; I have posted on the issue of the cultural matrix under the post armed police in schools and under the post civil liberties. There is a common thread in all these post and since I am afflicted with synthesis I read the entire collective of post from a cultural matrix perspective.
Why a ban? Time is needed for the society as a whole to absorb new concepts into its cultural matrix. Old and destructive concepts must be removed, this process will leave individuals weak and susceptive other cultural matrices, thus we would want to protect individuals and the society until it is ready to engage the world again. The society will be infused with a new vision, at each level, from the fetus level to the elderly adult, each generation is being given the cultural vision, such that it will be grow from generation to generation, at the conscious and subconscious level. This change will result in the sweeping away of old forms, that is the present system of education, general orders and would I go as far as saying that even the system of government would be swept away resulting in new dynamic holistic systems of living. In fact this revolution will manifest it self in all nine areas of a people’s activity:
1. economics
2. education
3. entertainment
4. labor
5. law
6. politics
7. religion
8. sex
9. war
I am calling on a mandatory ban on higher levels of ignorance (aka education) over seas, in part because at these moments we have the resources to create the educational system that is needed for our particular situation. The ban will force those lazadasical intellectuals that we have among us to come to the vanguard position, it will force the revolution of the boarded up schools, and there is so much possibility when a people stop looking to others for their salvation and look to themselves. This is the rational for the ban it forces us to look at our selves, and it will get rid of the reactionaries and the bourgeoisie among us who live for the exploitation of the people. I say bring on the ban bring it on yesterday back in 1992 when I campaigned for the FNM I thought the revolution had begun when we got rid of the PLP but we as a people did not push the envelope Now Is The Time, Ban Higher Education over seas. No more students going over seas with empty heads looking to be filled and coming back looking for jobs. Make COB real, Make the educational system real. This is my position.


If your recommendations are the future of our educational system, then God help us all.

You are proposing the death of intellect in this nation, for the minute we ban sending the best of our kids (those who dont have a D average) overseas to more advanced universities and colleges, we will only be left with a bunch of insular island people.

Without my Post Bachelors exposure abroad, I would not have been able to succeed in my business field. Yes, I did come back home looking for a job, but that was only common sense. I knew that I had to get the pulse of the local industry before I branched out on my own. This is what universities abroad teach many of our students - that before you dive into something, you have to weigh the pros and cons, as well as doing your research towards your own continuous improvement.

Our survival depends on the continued sharing of information with larger more developed nations. I propose the exact opposite of what you do. Make going overseas mandatory for all students for at least two years of education - even if its only for trade schooling. The experience alone will open some person's eyes to their true place in this world.

With an island nation that cannot manage its own high school system properly, how in the world can you propose that we take the burden of all tertiary education for our youth? Get real. Do you know the investment that would have to be made in bringing foreign professors in to guide our kids towards some of the more advanced degrees? The Bahamas does not have the resources to take on all the tertiary education needs of our people.

This world is a rapidly changing place. Yes there are instances of colonialism running rampant, but your approach of "going it solo" only proves your naivety. You speak of revolution. You sound like the typical "do-nothing" revolutionary with pipe dreams of creating your own "world" for your own people. Guess what? You are not ready! Our leaders are not ready and our people are not ready. Be honest with yourself.

If you want to see a good plan of "revolution", I sugggest you look at the growing Latino population in the US. Watch them carefully. They do not foolishly try to circumvent the "system" or take it over. They work with it, learn from it and perfect it, using the tools given to them to carve out their own niche. Their success in the past few decades is undeniable.

The strong countries of the world would be foolish to accept those who dare to openly reject and fight against them. You dare to propose doing this without no solid plan of action to fall back on or anyone who is qualified to take on the challenges involved. The sacrifice has to be made. Our best minds have to be placed in the best countries with the plan of them returning to share that knowledge. This will ensure the future of this country.

You are nothing but a fraud and a misleading force who will only pull down those who are foolish enough to follow you down your misleading path. The strong will survive and right now you are weak - So weak in fact, that you grab hold of a few ideologies, piece them together and spit them out trying to make sense of something that you, nor those around you, are not ready for.

I chide you like this, 'cause I used to think along simliar lines. Then I realized that I was alone (with only a few others), punching the brick wall of colonialism. Here's a tip, if you want to eliminate the "brick wall", you have to use a bulldozer, and guess who you get one of those from? The very people who made the "brick wall". Noam Chomsky and his ilk are merely chisels in the entire scheme of things. You may make a slight dent, but you're really not getting anywhere.

You are a childish dreamer who dares to speak about a revolution that you have not the slighest clue of how to start. Take some advice from the "Art of War":

A wise warrior doesn't fight the battle until after he has already won.

Revolution? Ha! Revolution my arse.

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If your recommendations are the future of our educational system, then God help us all.

You are proposing the death of intellect in this nation, for the minute we ban sending the best of our kids (those who dont have a D average) overseas to more advanced universities and colleges, we will only be left with a bunch of insular island people.

Without my Post Bachelors exposure abroad, I would not have been able to succeed in my business field. Yes, I did come back home looking for a job, but that was only common sense. I knew that I had to get the pulse of the local industry before I branched out on my own. This is what universities abroad teach many of our students - that before you dive into something, you have to weigh the pros and cons, as well as doing your research towards your own continuous improvement.

Our survival depends on the continued sharing of information with larger more developed nations. I propose the exact opposite of what you do. Make going overseas mandatory for all students for at least two years of education - even if its only for trade schooling. The experience alone will open some person's eyes to their true place in this world.

With an island nation that cannot manage its own high school system properly, how in the world can you propose that we take the burden of all tertiary education for our youth? Get real. Do you know the investment that would have to be made in bringing foreign professors in to guide our kids towards some of the more advanced degrees? The Bahamas does not have the resources to take on all the tertiary education needs of our people.

This world is a rapidly changing place. Yes there are instances of colonialism running rampant, but your approach of "going it solo" only proves your naivety. You speak of revolution. You sound like the typical "do-nothing" revolutionary with pipe dreams of creating your own "world" for your own people. Guess what? You are not ready! Our leaders are not ready and our people are not ready. Be honest with yourself.

If you want to see a good plan of "revolution", I sugggest you look at the growing Latino population in the US. Watch them carefully. They do not foolishly try to circumvent the "system" or take it over. They work with it, learn from it and perfect it, using the tools given to them to carve out their own niche. Their success in the past few decades is undeniable.

The strong countries of the world would be foolish to accept those who dare to openly reject and fight against them. You dare to propose doing this without no solid plan of action to fall back on or anyone who is qualified to take on the challenges involved. The sacrifice has to be made. Our best minds have to be placed in the best countries with the plan of them returning to share that knowledge. This will ensure the future of this country.

You are nothing but a fraud and a misleading force who will only pull down those who are foolish enough to follow you down your misleading path. The strong will survive and right now you are weak - So weak in fact, that you grab hold of a few ideologies, piece them together and spit them out trying to make sense of something that you, nor those around you, are not ready for.

I chide you like this, 'cause I used to think along simliar lines. Then I realized that I was alone (with only a few others), punching the brick wall of colonialism. Here's a tip, if you want to eliminate the "brick wall", you have to use a bulldozer, and guess who you get one of those from? The very people who made the "brick wall". Noam Chomsky and his ilk are merely chisels in the entire scheme of things. You may make a slight dent, but you're really not getting anywhere.

You are a childish dreamer who dares to speak about a revolution that you have not the slighest clue of how to start. Take some advice from the "Art of War":

A wise warrior doesn't fight the battle until after he has already won.

Revolution? Ha! Revolution my arse.

To Flipmode Squad, The shenanigans , Seventh Generation, The Block Heads, Counterrevolutionary, impotent intellectuals, bourgeoisie and my Hippie comrades: I give my respects to those who make up the vanguard and are pushing the revolution into the hearts and minds of the masses. As the great African American singer Sam Cook Sang a Change Will Come.
Returning to the subject at hand; Yorick Brown this is an argument into the philosophy of education. Where the definition of philosophy is taken from The Random House College Dictionary copyright 1984 edition; Philosophy:


1. The rational investigation of the truths and principals of being, knowledge or conduct.

2. A system of philosophical doctrine.

3. The study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular branch of knowledge.

4. A system of principles for guidance in practical affairs.


it was spawned by the post of Anjanichole requesting employment, at this present junction in time Sapadilly and I have by various methods of reached an agreement that the present system of education in the Bahamas is pathologically flawed, a full discussion of the nature of that pathology has been expanded in post by sapadilly and myself. We are examining in this space/forum; the implementation of an educational system that is created for the people that embraces concepts such as nation building. Due to the colossal nature of our undertaking the only word that describes it is Revolutionary. however November is a month I have dedicated to the study of Malcolm X since he and John H Clarke were great friends, I remember Clarke saying that Malcolm had one of the sharpest minds, by extension one of the things that I have found amazing about Malcolm is that he did a study of the dictionary thus in his memory going back to The Random House College Dictionary Copyright 1984 edition Revolution:

1. A forcible overthrow of an establish government or political system by the people governed.

2. A complete, pervasive usually radical change in something often made relatively quickly.

3. A procedure or course as if in a circuit back to a starting point.

The Great African American Historian and Educator, father of Black History month in his monumental work The Miseducation of The Negro wrote that if you train a man / woman how to think you do not have to worry about them going through the back door as if there is not one they will make one for themselves. This was true in the 1940 as it is true in the year 2005 among the majority of college university educated persons in fact this malaise is not confined to just the post high school level but it pervades the psyche of the majority of educated persons irrespective of there level of education. In fact I must thank you for providing this argument with more supporting evidence visa v the following statements:

1. The ban on overseas education results in intellectual death?

2. University teaches students that before you dive into something you have to weigh the pros and cons as well as doing your research towards your own continuous development.

3. Our survival depends on shared information with over developed countries.

4. An island nation unable to manage its own high school system.


These are exactly the type of thinking that the system of education that I am proposing will eliminate, (in fact should I dare be so modest but I have out lined the core of the curriculum of this educational system as they say in Amway aint it great!) Each one of these four propositions has been careful examined and explained please see post to anjanichole addressing these issues.

YorickBrown this is an argument on The philosophy of Education, if you are going to be considered as a serious scholar/commentator then some changes in attitude will be needed first of leave the personal attacks at home, you don’t know who I am except for my post, and I don’t know who you are except for your post. I have engaged you before on various different topics I don’t agree with a lot of your analysis but that’s life. However in regards to the Art Of war I have been reading it form 1988 and I reread it twice a year. Asian philosophy is a philosophic interest of mine. I am having a great time working through this discussion with Sapadilly, and (along with encounters with Abaskan Moon-Angel,) in fact it is one of the most pleasant discussions that I have been engaged in since coming to this place. As this is an Argument if you are a participant, you will be expected to substantiate your claims, use as many sources that you like but don’t go on a rampage about Naom Chomsky unless you have facts to back up your claim .


Until the next post.