Hey Carol, my math's teacher told others and I who didn't get past the half mark to go tell our parents to get us flour and be cooking mandas by the road side,lol...Si I felt bad because I had been sent home for school fees and came back to find a whole topic on statistics had been covered and a CAT was glaring at me... Those words really made me hate the teacher and feel woiye for my self...I started flopping in math, I averaged at D but getting to fourth form I remembered I wasn't damn in Math and I put so much effort and passed my KCSE Math paper... Statistics ended up being my best topic even in uni. I wish to have practised in a statistic field....Teachers should know there tongues are very powerful.
wow! what a story. I can relate to this very much. One teacher used to call me ''macho red, she often told me you will end up selling mandazi'' . I once met her outside Kencom 30 years after I left primary school. To my surprise my entire body got swarmed with goos pimples as I looked at this old woman.
I’ve rewatched this one after watching the new one (Saved from Myself - April 2022), and it hit me that those watching 10 years from now might fumble with the hairdresser billions reference (he he). And the Maya Angelou quote is one to live by; it features in the most recent video too. Always a joy listening to Carole.
I will never forget how you made me feel every time I encountered you Carol Musyoka. I'm priviledged to have worked with you and I love you! Yes, you do infact laugh loud, long and often. Stay blessed
Oh wow... This brings fond memories of my high school math teacher Mrs Mwanthi. During a parents teacher meeting in first term form 4. She looked at my maths grades all through form 3 and they were all E’s. She looked me straight in the eye and said “This is not you. You are one of my A students in math and if you just believe in yourself and work, you’ll get an A in Math in KCSE. It’s like I was woken up. True to her word I got an A in math and the day the results were she said to me “I told you”. I’ve never seen her since as she left the school. She made a huge impact in my life yaaani.... she has no idea. I’m so grateful to her.
This talk has me crying because I was that girl too. Headmistress told me I would among to nothing after my beauty faded. I feared and failed math in high school because of that woman and avoided any career path that required it for me early years. Now as woman in the tech field with both an accounting certification and a computer science degree, I look back and know that there were many in my shoes that never made it because of those words. I was just lucky that I had parents who believed in me fully no matter how hard I fell. Teachers destroy lives on the regular when they are meant to nurture it which is sad. I absolutely enjoyed Carol's talk and can fully understand why she succeeded in spite of those words
Story of my life. Mine would make me stand in the class and ridicule me. The disappointment was that I was among the first two in languages and humanities. Funny enough good in sciences-chwm n bio but maths hapana. Wee-wee.....I have tried never to blame him but I see his contribution in my failing maths.
6 years later but the statement still fresh, people forget what you said, people forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel 😢
This made me smile so much. I am a teacher an I can assure you that I have lived through my career knowing to believe in my students and tell them they can, even if it seems they can’t. Thank you for sharing, Carol
I had an almost similar experience. At some point in high school I lost my mum and I just lost all the guidance and focus. Was failing miserably. I remember in form 3 our maths teacher Mrs Akatsa told my aunt,"Sharon is beautiful but performs so poorly". Those words hurt so bad I never forgot. I wanna meet Madama Akatsa and show her my Masters Degree
Caroline I totally identify myself with your story. Especially primary school & high school. Thank God that doesn’t define us now. Your talk was refreshing insightful & quite enjoyable. Blessings 🤗
Recently went to one of my sibling's academic clinic, he had drastically dropped in one of the subject... He later explained to me how the teacher had said something in class that made him lose some esteem and dislike the subject... I Tried making some sense to him that it's to his own gain to learn... Teachers need know better on what they say to the students
Great talk Carol. I wanted you to keep talking... Beautiful spoken English, your sense of humour is just off the hook and you have a very beautiful set of teeth. Thanks for the awakening topic...I am writing my own narrative.
Wow,I can relate to everything you said. Mrs.Okello taught me too.I hated maths more than I can fathom and I just got lost and was never found even with tuition.I was so bad and was simply ignored. On the other hand,my art teacher, Mr.Ohanga changed my world view and made life bearable.I think he saved my life in some ways.
was in Boma too i can relate.. at least you had beauty..i just got lost in the system..math n chem did not help the situation either...but life goes on and success meets you somewhere along the way
I know how it feels to come from top ten percentile to the bottom average. Why? Because it happened to me. And some seven odd years later we still talk about it with my form one desk mate. Funny thing though I needed up taking strategic management in campus which is an amalgamation of mathematics to predicts trends to set up strategies in order to prepare a response. Currently in sales and marketing actively and still using maths!! The damn thing never leaves. But hearing your story, maaaan! My mama has to watch this. I thank God she understood what was going on and kept encouraging me. This is a n encouraging story. Thank you.
That was Mr Wamalwa for me at township primary school....I never survived maths ever..... Come high school I met a miss Ali at St Brigids .....sharp tongued 👅..eti we will never see the gates of university. But thanks to God for Mrs sitati....she gave me hope 🙏 ❤️
Not me a math teacher watching this and am laughing😂🤣but i appreciate you cracked it after, its a mindset subject: Take home: don't let anyone define you by their perception about you. Go for it.
i can relate to this story my primary teacher told me that I will never be anything in life,..I used to believed it even after my own dad told me he can never take me to highschool because I will end up like a house maid...but mungu halali, penye nifika sahi ni kwa nguvu zake mungu
Silvia Pamba that is sad and horrific. You know the best "revenge" for such people... Is be the BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF. They steal your self worth...l don't understand why an adult would do this to a child. Amen to God bringing you this far 😇
I hate the damn subject too!My high school teacher told us she had only two students in her class and that we could consult them if we didn't understand....I moved from an A student in primary to a C minus in high school....I still hate Math! Thanks for sharing Carol.
Omg!!! So she went from consolata to usiu on her trail!!! I purposely didn't take collage algebra cause of that woman till I moved abroad just to avoid her 😂😭
I had a dream killer teacher too in high school who I really liked but didn't like me back. A European Finnish woman with squinty eyes married to a Kenyan man. She hated Kyuk students and openly favoured those from Western Kenya. Her name was Mrs Owindi she nearly wrote my narrative. Yet I was pretty good at her subject but she didn't like my personality. Then there was anther Mrs O something also from Western In primary school and one in my sons primary school class also a Mrs O something all were terribly harsh teachers with no compassion for their students. The one in my sons class made me return in the middle of my studies and move him to the US at the age of 4 years because she was so cruel mocking my son because his mother was studying abroad and asking him why he was living with his grandmother. She died soon after may she rest in peace. You're a smart lady and a great speaker yet your beauty rubbed your trwc her the wrong way. Shame on her!
All the subjects are important except that some of the teachers taken them too personal like we all have to be equal. We are born with unique skills and talents. Respect and dignity is more important when teaching. Human beings are diverse in their gifts and this has to be respected and appreciated. Not everyone has to be a mathematician or physicist
Hey Carol, my math's teacher told others and I who didn't get past the half mark to go tell our parents to get us flour and be cooking mandas by the road side,lol...Si I felt bad because I had been sent home for school fees and came back to find a whole topic on statistics had been covered and a CAT was glaring at me... Those words really made me hate the teacher and feel woiye for my self...I started flopping in math, I averaged at D but getting to fourth form I remembered I wasn't damn in Math and I put so much effort and passed my KCSE Math paper... Statistics ended up being my best topic even in uni. I wish to have practised in a statistic field....Teachers should know there tongues are very powerful.
Proverbs 18:21 and James 3:6
wow! what a story. I can relate to this very much. One teacher used to call me ''macho red, she often told me you will end up selling mandazi'' . I once met her outside Kencom 30 years after I left primary school. To my surprise my entire body got swarmed with goos pimples as I looked at this old woman.
Same story! Now am a Doctor!
I’ve rewatched this one after watching the new one (Saved from Myself - April 2022), and it hit me that those watching 10 years from now might fumble with the hairdresser billions reference (he he). And the Maya Angelou quote is one to live by; it features in the most recent video too. Always a joy listening to Carole.
Madam Carol, your speech and you lingual dexterity is up there ☝️. Now that's how I speek my mother tongue, the only language I'm good at🤗🤗
I love her poise, eloquence and seamless intelligence that I gather through word use to bring the story alive in my mind...
I will never forget how you made me feel every time I encountered you Carol Musyoka. I'm priviledged to have worked with you and I love you! Yes, you do infact laugh loud, long and often. Stay blessed
Oh wow... This brings fond memories of my high school math teacher Mrs Mwanthi. During a parents teacher meeting in first term form 4. She looked at my maths grades all through form 3 and they were all E’s. She looked me straight in the eye and said “This is not you. You are one of my A students in math and if you just believe in yourself and work, you’ll get an A in Math in KCSE. It’s like I was woken up. True to her word I got an A in math and the day the results were she said to me “I told you”. I’ve never seen her since as she left the school. She made a huge impact in my life yaaani.... she has no idea. I’m so grateful to her.
Beautiful 🥰
This talk has me crying because I was that girl too. Headmistress told me I would among to nothing after my beauty faded. I feared and failed math in high school because of that woman and avoided any career path that required it for me early years. Now as woman in the tech field with both an accounting certification and a computer science degree, I look back and know that there were many in my shoes that never made it because of those words. I was just lucky that I had parents who believed in me fully no matter how hard I fell. Teachers destroy lives on the regular when they are meant to nurture it which is sad. I absolutely enjoyed Carol's talk and can fully understand why she succeeded in spite of those words
Story of my life. Mine would make me stand in the class and ridicule me. The disappointment was that I was among the first two in languages and humanities. Funny enough good in sciences-chwm n bio but maths hapana. Wee-wee.....I have tried never to blame him but I see his contribution in my failing maths.
She speaks like she just ate 3 compositions from Alliance girls😃... and the 791million joke, OMG😂😂
This is a Bomarian... Mrs Okello.. 🙈🙈🙈.
Oh my God, has she seen herself? She is gorgeous. Don’t look beautiful anymore? Absurd. Carol you look stunning. And have you seen your skin?
Girl, your literature sits comfortably on your expressions. 🙌🏿🙌🏿❤️❤️
6 years later but the statement still fresh, people forget what you said, people forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel 😢
Mrs okello is now a lecturer @USIU_A still teaching mathematics woooow she is still a 🔥
This made me smile so much. I am a teacher an I can assure you that I have lived through my career knowing to believe in my students and tell them they can, even if it seems they can’t.
Thank you for sharing, Carol
Carol speaks really well..I thoroughly enjoyed this presentations! More of Carol please👌
Carol you speak beautifully.. Powerful talk
Your command of the queen's language is quite respectable
I had an almost similar experience. At some point in high school I lost my mum and I just lost all the guidance and focus. Was failing miserably. I remember in form 3 our maths teacher Mrs Akatsa told my aunt,"Sharon is beautiful but performs so poorly". Those words hurt so bad I never forgot. I wanna meet Madama Akatsa and show her my Masters Degree
Caroline I totally identify myself with your story. Especially primary school & high school. Thank God that doesn’t define us now.
Your talk was refreshing insightful & quite enjoyable. Blessings 🤗
Write your narrative,story not based on what people say or think about you!👍 Thank you Carol. God bless you.
Watching this for the tenth time especially after her recent talk again ,i would love to have a sit down with her for sure !
Hii Kenya watu walijifunza wapi English? My English teacher must have been fake.
Hehe it's about exposure though
Mine too
😂😀😁
Hahahahahahaahahahah! So funny
English spoken or written.. hehe...
This is such a powerful talk about controlling the narrative. Thank you +Engage Talk for posting this up
You speak fantastic English....
This Lady Carol Musyoka.first you still very beautiful 😍 I really enjoy listening to you .you are blessed,your story relates with my stories .
Boy oh boy! Mrs Okello was my maths teacher! I can relate to you Caroline. She used the same words on me. She was horror
Recently went to one of my sibling's academic clinic, he had drastically dropped in one of the subject... He later explained to me how the teacher had said something in class that made him lose some esteem and dislike the subject... I Tried making some sense to him that it's to his own gain to learn...
Teachers need know better on what they say to the students
The power behind the tongue. I love this narrative. I will also write mine.
Great talk Carol.
I wanted you to keep talking...
Beautiful spoken English, your sense of humour is just off the hook and you have a very beautiful set of teeth.
Thanks for the awakening topic...I am writing my own narrative.
Weeewe, Why haven't I seen these talks before? Your so real,never stop talking and you make me want to see more in our women.
I think this is the tenth time I am back here. .... Story very well put across.
Your story telling skills are on a higher level. Am charged by your story
Wow,I can relate to everything you said. Mrs.Okello taught me too.I hated maths more than I can fathom and I just got lost and was never found even with tuition.I was so bad and was simply ignored. On the other hand,my art teacher, Mr.Ohanga changed my world view and made life bearable.I think he saved my life in some ways.
Good memory ..
I have to share this video with my Son's. Thank you Carol. FYI ,you're still so beautiful!
was in Boma too i can relate.. at least you had beauty..i just got lost in the system..math n chem did not help the situation either...but life goes on and success meets you somewhere along the way
Mr.Keru taught us in 1k2 back in 80s
I like your
so descriptive expression
Carolinya.... beauty without brains..
I came back in 2022 to listen....😍😍
It's timeless
Me too,😂😂😂...still timeless
Same!
I know how it feels to come from top ten percentile to the bottom average. Why? Because it happened to me. And some seven odd years later we still talk about it with my form one desk mate. Funny thing though I needed up taking strategic management in campus which is an amalgamation of mathematics to predicts trends to set up strategies in order to prepare a response. Currently in sales and marketing actively and still using maths!! The damn thing never leaves. But hearing your story, maaaan! My mama has to watch this. I thank God she understood what was going on and kept encouraging me. This is a n encouraging story. Thank you.
Wow! This is awesome. Real talk.
And for the record, I don't know Mrs okello at all😂😂😂
Check your roots
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow... Intelligent lady... Thanks for sharing
That was Mr Wamalwa for me at township primary school....I never survived maths ever.....
Come high school I met a miss Ali at St Brigids .....sharp tongued 👅..eti we will never see the gates of university. But thanks to God for Mrs sitati....she gave me hope 🙏 ❤️
Fantastic English carol, I love ur sense of humor too. Kudos
some people just talk to communicate but not be understood,but this one is more touching ...kudos!!!!!
So amaizing story,so eloquent..inspiring..more of you please carol..
This lady is addictive!! I like listening to her
daamn, this lady's oratory skills.
I’ve always looked up to this lady. Love this talk ...
Absolutely love this. Writing my own narrative 🥳🥳
awesome. short. sweet. effective. great job Carolynya
Not me a math teacher watching this and am laughing😂🤣but i appreciate you cracked it after, its a mindset subject: Take home: don't let anyone define you by their perception about you. Go for it.
Bullys make people freeze in the moment.I would never let a bully make me freeze.I am with the power.
I love Carol so much.... A woman to emulate... She's a force to reckon with.
i can relate to this story my primary teacher told me that I will never be anything in life,..I used to believed it even after my own dad told me he can never take me to highschool because I will end up like a house maid...but mungu halali, penye nifika sahi ni kwa nguvu zake mungu
Silvia Pamba that is sad and horrific.
You know the best "revenge" for such people... Is be the BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF.
They steal your self worth...l don't understand why an adult would do this to a child.
Amen to God bringing you this far 😇
Silvia Pamba Amen. Gods plans are not human plans.big up
Silvia Pamba When u blv in urself
I hate the damn subject too!My high school teacher told us she had only two students in her class and that we could consult them if we didn't understand....I moved from an A student in primary to a C minus in high school....I still hate Math!
Thanks for sharing Carol.
I love this woman!!!
still beautiful
Hey Carol, i really love your English
Beautiful talk thanks
By far the best!
Nice one, let's stand in the gap for one another.
Cool. Well done Carol.
Nice presentation
Thank you!
She’s a lecturer at USIU now ..ebu look for her ..face your fears Carolina,beauty with brains 🧠 30 years later
She taught me Algebra in USIU. I found her humourous
Awesome talk.
I loooooove this woman's brains...lots of lov carol
Touching Story .
Still the best talk
You’re gold girl
Hahaha. Carolyna still no brain but beauty gone(Must admit the beauty is still there)..Well delivered though.
I could listen to you all night!
I am the one who loves you Carolinya,leave this other commentators
Mrs Okello😂😂kudescribiwa nayo
Carolina....beuti without brain part made me cry ....ribs broken.......
I was late for this.. though better late than never.
Awesome.........
Omg!!! So she went from consolata to usiu on her trail!!! I purposely didn't take collage algebra cause of that woman till I moved abroad just to avoid her 😂😭
She is dope! ❤️❤️
I love you !! Awesome
I can relate. Ms Okello, waa she was something else in this earth. My self-esteem went to close to zero
excellent talk
I love this! I can relate
Carolynya you are beauty with brains and more.
I missed being in Mrs Okello's class..
wow.my high school story.....waahhh
And now kenyan all over right now we're like " mwalimu wa maths, hapa ni wapi?"
I bet Carol relates
I had a dream killer teacher too in high school who I really liked but didn't like me back. A European Finnish woman with squinty eyes married to a Kenyan man. She hated Kyuk students and openly favoured those from Western Kenya. Her name was Mrs Owindi she nearly wrote my narrative. Yet I was pretty good at her subject but she didn't like my personality. Then there was anther Mrs O something also from Western In primary school and one in my sons primary school class also a Mrs O something all were terribly harsh teachers with no compassion for their students. The one in my sons class made me return in the middle of my studies and move him to the US at the age of 4 years because she was so cruel mocking my son because his mother was studying abroad and asking him why he was living with his grandmother. She died soon after may she rest in peace. You're a smart lady and a great speaker yet your beauty rubbed your trwc her the wrong way. Shame on her!
My daughter's went to school in Nakuru, had awful kiuk teachers who hated students from the West.Made them hate school.Yet they were great students.
@@sarahjustice526 these teachers should be held accountable for their actions
I've never related more!!
Thankyou.... Wooow!!!
This is so me... in high school.
YOU ARE SUPER FUNNY . LOVED THE TALK SO SO MUCH.
Mr Keru was my Mrs Okello. How ironic.
Yeah 👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻Carol ..👊🏻💪🏻
All the subjects are important except that some of the teachers taken them too personal like we all have to be equal. We are born with unique skills and talents. Respect and dignity is more important when teaching. Human beings are diverse in their gifts and this has to be respected and appreciated. Not everyone has to be a mathematician or physicist
So who said it better-Carol Musyoka or Kendi Kamanja- the teachers ''...Beauty without brains'' line?
You follow really well haha...I think Carol said it better.
Thank you
Most humourous
She is really interesting 🤣🤣🤣
Mathematics went from my favourite subject to nightmare subject thanks to Mrs Okello
Haha! Mrs Okello scared me but lucky for me she never picked on me!
Mrs Okello🤣. My college stats lecturer
Mrs Okello was a nightmare