Traditionally, the girl child would receive informal education from the aunts and grandmothers. She was supposed to learn a practical example from the mother. From the time the girl child would start understanding that she is, her role as a woman in the society would start taking shape. Most fathers never associated themselves with the girl child or showed affection or fatherly love to her. If anything went wrong in her life, the father would blame the mother. It was assumed that the mother did not do a good job at rising up the girl.

In traditional African setting, the girl child was taught how to rise up a family. The mother would teach her how to prepare meals for the husband and children. The aunties were charged with the role of teaching her on sexual matters when she became of age. They would teach her on the body changes she might be experiencing, how to avoid pregnancy and subsequent shame to her and the family and how to behave in marriage. When formal education was introduced in Kenya, most families did not see the need of educating the girl child.

They saw this as an exercise in futile for a woman’s role was predestined even before birth. Traditionally, a woman could not fit anywhere else but in the kitchen. Therefore, they would argue that a girl did not need to go to a formal learning centre to learn how to bring up a family. The government has had to really sensitize the masses on the importance of taking even the girl child to school. The saying, ‘when you educate a woman you have educated a whole nation’ is very popular in Kenya.

However, if children are educated in this informal willed intend to enter the certificate because the level of formal education is higher, so participants informal education can take the test PKBM equality through non-formal institutions or similar test equality.

During this informal education was not known by the public, although this is the most educational model ‘buhun’ (the Sundanese word), or classical. First time parents, when schools have not yet, only have one choice to educate their children, educate yourself with. Even if children act on other people, it is done for the other special skills that are not under their parents. Foundation of education remain on the family.

Well, how the role of informal education for the change this nation to become better? I think it will be very significant. Moreover, if it is supported by the government, menguatnya to instil awareness of the family foundation of education at home will make the children have had a clear vision of life, feeling optimistic with the future, and have the attitude of living a more posisitf because it is in support of families who are concerned with them as a whole.

This is a most typical value education more informal than other models of education is, the greater the likelihood will be and potential of every child controlled maximally. Think, many children who attend school in the formal school, with a variety of subjects gave on them, in fact, ultimately make them have no skills to detect their own talent, and eventually they were trapped in the confusion of selecting the field that they want to Go.

There are a faculty lecture Literature German bankers, but ultimately so. There is a lecture on the Economics department, so even after graduating artists. So many cases in which the field of the life and work that does not comply with the field they like in school. Why be so?

I believe that it is because children can not realize their talent early. Talents often found outside the school building. But if the parents and the children are able to find talent, since their small, the result surely will be different.

Would like to try? Informal education is not bad for Dilirik by those who want a very fundamental change from the younger generation of this nation.