The Power in the Human Mind

The Human mind is the solution to boosting opportunities for  the youth in Africa. Such a cliche, but an honest one at that.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them". Einstein.
This is definitely not the first time this topic is discussed, and it won't be the last. Agriculture, entrepreneurship, small businesses look like the definite answers, but they are the common answers. And to date since the topic begun, we have made impressive steps into creating opportunities but not at a good enough pace to outrun the problem. First because only a few individual are trying to outrun the problem and the many lot of us don't even know that we are the problem.
The Human mind is a power house or a power problem. And thinking is it's main super power or super disadvantage.  Furthermore a child learns how to think from what he/she is taught and the questions he/she is allowed to ask. The biggest part of the Tanzanian education system is a Prussian based system, that was instilled as a memory training system that is spoon fed where by kids are taught to accept without question, assume without proof and to believe and memorize whatever is taught. An education to provide skilled workers who are in other words slaves to a system but don't really feel so. The problem now is that we are over supplied with skilled workers, and the difference between this century and the last is that we don't need so many!
While we talk about entrepreneurship and innovation, our education system is all about "don't question the system, work for it." The entrepreneurship mindset cannot materialise unless we transform the way we approach education and how people think or question.
Investing in the Human mind is the solution to unemployment in Tanzania. For a brilliant mindset will see opportunities in chaos and will not wait for opportunities to be created by the government or others. It is time to change what we feed our young minds throughout the whole education system, "Samaki mkunje angali mbichi". When the education you acquire does not make you think, question, want to learn more, solve problems in new creative ways or innovate in this particular day and age, I had rather you don't go to school.
We don't only need a small number of youths to aspire to be entrepreneurs and to think differently. We need the whole government and society to think differently. We need people, who even though most will not start businesses but their mindsets will enable them to support these ventures into growth and even invest in them.