Uganda, Feb. 25 -- Maybe I should have begun by correcting myself on the title above: it is not that government is paying Arts teachers less money as such.rather that it is paying Science teachers more. You don't get it, right? That's precisely the point!

One of the dumbest policies that have been crafted by Uganda's current government is calling for children to study Sciences, with the rather strange and ideologically bankrupt reasoning that it is Sciences that will take the country forward, because then they will cause rapid industrialisation, blah, blah. And that Arts subjects are not particularly useful - and stuff like history should be ditched, because the leadership feels it cannot play any role in, say, industrialising the countr...