ON EDUCATION


Let me ask you, what is your own definition of education?
Can someone be educated without ever being a university student?
Can one who is a university graduate be considered uneducated?
Can one,without formal education be considered educated?
Someone defined education to be: equipping people to be relevant in the society but we have people who we consider well educated yet they are irrelevant in the society, what do you call what they have?

I have seen and experienced the deleterious effect of our inclement educational system. In my solitary erudition, I have discovered only a few people are educated and this has nothing to do with PhDs or being a candidate of one higher institution or the other.
I have seen university graduates who are still uneducated even when they graduated with first class.
The question is not whether they bought the results or not.
I am actually talking about those who worked tenaciously for their results.
The problem is that these set of people were only indoctrinated and not educated; they acquired the wrong education, such that they will never make use of.
In my words in an article titled: WHEN EDUCATION BECOMES AN INDOCTRINATION which was published by The Guardian Newspaper on the 3rd and 4th of November 2015 and can be read here: http://soulerhymezinspirations.blogspot.com/…/when-educatio… , I stated that when schooling becomes indoctrination, only the truly educated ones becomes successful. Thus a large chunk of unsuccessful/ unemployed graduates here is evident that schooling here has become indoctrination.
I might offend your sensibility as I always do but until we stop accepting the unfit gifts passed down to us by the whites, we might not make head ways.
I struggle to believe that the blacks might never overcome their slave mentality but our educational system is a glaring evidence.
It is lugubrious that up till now, Africans have not been able to define what true education is.
Our bigotry and gullibility is infectious and thus becomes generational.
We take what is passed down to us without asking questions as to whether they are good for us or not.
With these ill-filtered developments, I dare to say Nigeria and Africa as a whole is a society in need of true education.
Our educational system has produced more employees than employers and without employers, employees will be unemployed.
This reality is here with us but we still don't think we have a crippled educational system.
With all these problems so glaring, all we need are bold and selfless people who are ready to make a change despite the odds against them.
People who can sacrifice their selfish gains for the betterment of everyone including them.
People who can talk about what affect them to effect change when others have their mouths tamed by fear of rejection.
To be a part of this change movement tagged TRUE EDUCATION CAMPAIGN please send TEC to +2348163800077 either via text message or whatsApp message.
In this regard, watch out for the must read write up for all Africans in Africa and in diaspora, especially Nigerians.
It is a series titled A SOCIETY IN NEED OF TRUE EDUCATION. It is an expository write-up that define true education and how to attain it. It is going to be published by newspapers, blogs and websites home and abroad but will be shared with you if you wish to see it.
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