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True Education: Passion Versus School

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I have seen a lot of young people neglected, considered uneducated and treated as useless, because they rejected some form of schooling to pursue their passions. This is due to general ignorance of what education is. Education here is generally limited to schooling and pays less or no attention to passion & talents. This is no doubt, the reason why we have a lot of unbaked and unemployed graduates, with no vision, purpose and sense of belonging. It is easier for an average African family to come together to sponsor a child who got admission to the university, consistently, for more than four years, giving no attention to what becomes of him after school, than to sponsor the same child's projects outside school, if at all, for four years. This trend is popularized by the well furnished ignorance that education could only be acquired in certain schools. Being educated is not at all time a function of schooling, although it helps in some cases where one studies the right cou