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 John Rutayisire is a Rwandan educator who has taught in Uganda , Lesotho and Botswana. Rutayisire is currently the Director of the National Curriculum Development Centre in Rwanda, where he leads policy development in curriculum, textbooks, language in Education, and most recently has been appointed Chairperson of the Teacher Development and Management Policy. In this video clip, Rutayisire talks about the importance of teaching self-reliance to Rwandan students, based on lessons learned from their recent history.
Transcription of video clip:
"The international community could have done much better than it did in terms of stopping the genocide. They didn't. And we have learned a lesson from it. At the curriculum and government level, we learned that Rwandan children must learn that they need to do something about their lives as they grow up, and not to expect that somebody somewhere will come to save them, so the issue of self-reliance in the curriculum; the whole issue of 'I can do it' in the curriculum is part of the whole process of developing an individual who later on as an adult will learn to deal with their problem first before they turn their eye to somebody else in the international community."
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