Burama, I guess my THEORY question is making you uncomfortable. By theory what I simply mean is a plan articulated on paper but not implemented in practice. Bring it down to the budget you talked about... If you planned your budget last year, advocated for others to do the same but you actually never practice what you written then it is only in theoretical format... So again my reference to theory here only means... Documenting a plan, articulate it on paper and on the airways which is perfectly fine... so the next stage is to implement it for actual results...Am not being dismissive of your theories far from it... am just saying great job writing it and articulating it.. In fact am a big advocate of written plans as a business student... , NOW let's find a way to implement those great ideas.. Hope that helps... 

Thanks

Demba

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Writing is an element of proper and verifiable documentation of actions and/in actions

Documentation is not only an essential ingredient of functioning democracy but also rule of law (source of evidences).

By writing if we mean - theory. Isn't that a problem?

Who amongst us last December forecast his/her annual earning, estimate expenses and free cash flow. How did you benefit from that information in the 10th of the year? Or this is theory just go week to week.... That's it! 

Well whatever your view - I hold that we were fortunate to be schooled to be different in better ways than my non school parents. Better in practical ways!

Why road at X place and not Y. Why order these tons cement and not that much? Why cook 10 cups of rice for lunch at home and not 20? Why build  19 high schools and not 50?  Many at times real life situations are even more complex but our best answers are in the most accurate available information otherwise a guessing game.

Burama


On Sunday, October 26, 2014, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
what is it?

Articulating your dream building plan on a piece of paper? Is that theory? 

Map our the journey to Mars? 

Stick kids chore chart on a fridge door?

Annual estimation of plans and budgets?

Annual estimation of remittance to family and friends?

A proposal how I think we can make Gambia a functioning democracy?

What's theory?

Recollect from high school -  titration theory in chemistry, Newton's law in physics, Pythagorean theorem in mathematics, demand and supply in Economics, Galileo theory, etc. Do any or all of these make any sense to your daily living today? I bet they do! At Muslim High School I used to frown about negative numbers or ab + ax. 

What's theory? What's wrong with theory? Or do we mean anything written is theory- that appears to be the case

Burama 
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