Thursday, 21 July 2016
The world and it''s Educational sector
If 2y(5x-7y) -6y X +6 = 45 find x.
Yesterday i was in the sitting room watching a
program called China24 on CCTV NEWS, an
electric lamp manufacturer was interviewed
together with his workers in his factory. The
workers are kids between the ages or 12-18 the
most beautiful part of it was that the kids can on
their own manufacture same. Now let's come
down to Nigeria. Nigerian students are busy
searching for "x" while students in the developed
countries are manufacturing things for the
development of their country. In Nigeria, our
engineering students spend nearly all their time
solving difficult equations and searching for "x".
In Nigeria, students will be asked to search for
"x" I do smile and ask myself how can we use
Algebra and simultaneous equation to boost the
economy. How can we use the located "x" to
solve the challenges facing us? In Nigeria, teacher
will draw a circle having dots in it on the chalk
board and tell the kids "this is an Orange"
imagine. In Nigeria, a teacher will be in the class
room using acid to change litmus paper to red on
the chalk board. In fact, in Nigeria the best place
to mix acid with base is on chalk board. In
Nigeria, a teacher will be in the class teaching
rock and it types and expect the students to be
able to identify them in real sense how possible?
However, the above are some of the reasons why
at 50+ as an oil producing country we are still
importing tooth-pick and matches. Our brain has
been channel to the fact that failure to go to
school will end one up as a domestic servant of
the educated ones which I seriously disagree
with. We can't all be in the class room at the
same time and expect us to catch up with the
developed countries, it never done; we will keep
depending on them with such barbaric idea. Let
those that are willing to go into sport be on the
field or track not in class room, Christiano
Ronaldo of Real Madrid FC was expelled from
school at the age of 14 and today he is a world
footballer. Let take those that are good in
construction to factories or workshops not class
room. Let's take away pen from our engineering
students and send them out of class. Let's take
away pen from those that are willing to take hoe,
cutlass, hammer, saw, screw driver etc. Our too
much dependent on pen is sending us backward.
To me, spending 5, 6 or more years in tertiary
institution is nothing but a total waste of time, 3
years is enough for engineering courses. 12
calender month is enough for food related courses
and 3 or 4 years is enough to be a lawyer. At this
juncture, I will like to call on the government at
all level to look into this and find a lasting
solution to it. Lastly our government should stop
sending the talented ones away by sending them
aboard for training and failed to establish/provide
where they will be discharging what they've learnt
or the skills they've acquired upon their arrival. If
we can do this, I believe that few years to come
Nigeria will be the greatest country of the world
while others will be on the queue at our back.
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