The Raspberry Pi can work as a regular computer—you can surf the web, send emails, write documents, watch videos, and so on—but that’s not its primary purpose. You can experiment with, hack, and play with the Pi to build your programs and inventions. The Raspberry Pi and similar boards made it possible but easy to get involved in the world of electronics and programming, resulting in an outpouring of creative inventions all over the globe. Now, it’s your time to invent something.

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Yes, but curiosity also teaches the Cat. What is education for? Education is the ability to awaken and keep alive the desire to solve today’s and tomorrow’s problems by learning from yesterday. And the only way for anyone to be genuinely interested in learning about the wins and losses of yesterday is to have an unquenchable desire to know more. Like Wallace D Wattle said, learn, do, and be more. Wherever you find innovators, inventors, and problem-solvers, at the heart of their endeavor is curiosity.

I didn’t particularly appreciate asking questions when I was growing up, which could be because it also needed to be installed in me. On the contrary, nothing was done to stimulate and grow my curiosity. And most Ghanaians who grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s can relate that the Inquisition was not well encouraged. The only interest we heard of was looking for information to gossip about other people rather than discovering how valuable things were created in some communities. While inherently, some human motivations develop with little or no help from others, the stimulation toward transformational, functional education requires much deliberate fostering.

The partner begins when people ask questions such as, how did they land on a rocket on the moon? Can we design our own Aeroplane that fits our climate and needs? Can we build a bridge on the river that lies on the way to my grandfather’s village? How come our hospitals need more types of equipment? Can those types of equipment be made here? 

How do they build medical robots? How did Elon Musk develop an electric car that will change the automotive industry? How do they make viruses, and how do they develop vaccines? How do they do it?

Not only an end user but a maker too.

Africa believes in education just as much as India believes in education, and most African parents believe their children are only well to do if they have achieved some education. So that begs the question, why isn’t our education putting us at the forefront of changing lives in communities? And helping us eliminate some of the old-age problems synonymous with Africa. Like over-importation, lack of added value to natural resources, coming up with proper structure and organization for the internal affairs of our countries rather than always looking to others to solve our problems? 

In a book about Raspberry Pi’s development, the author asks a question in the book, which I want to paraphrase. The question was, how do you make every child in school not think or see themselves as only an end user but also as a maker? Not only to think from the application level but to want to know more about the other hidden layers and building blocks of the applications. From here, we can start looking for tools and materials to equip these thinkers and makers to explore more and discover more than what they knew yesterday. Raspberry Pi is a low-cost visa card size computer that is helping developing countries bring computer science into every classroom. 

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, the Outliers, he writes that successful people don’t just become successful from nothing, and there are contributing factors that help steer successful to success. He writes the immediate and extended environment of these successful people plays a significant role in how they are mentally and physically shaped by their surroundings toward success.

We mainly build our future upon what was instilled in us from childhood. Those cultural values, coupled with purpose, hard work, continuous learning ability, intelligence, and opportunity, could make a big difference in the final positive outcome of any person’s life. Pursuing coding, learning more about making things with computers, and programming computers can position anyone for a better life. 

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