The old men in those days saw the need for education as they felt cheated by their colonial masters, hence they made progression in bringing formal education into their culture.
Speaking from this day and time, former education has been condemned by insensitive youths with the statement, SCHOOL NA SCAM, as in the Nigerian pidgin English. However, I would love us to learn from this piece the reason we must value school since its not a scam as perceived.
From the brief history I gave, you could see that the school was accepted into the African culture to solve a prevailing problem of ignorance and also low use of the brain. African men and women in those days had lesser brain power and could not efficiently proffer solutions to problem, so rather developing in their practices, they remain stuck to a common routine and practice.
Former Education brought about intelligence and this intelligence is what the school is giving to you.
The school is not a failed system because its actual purpose was to stretch your mind and work on your intelligence until it's able to run your life efficiently to producing maximum outcome.
If why you think the school failed is because there is no Job in the society to accommodate your knowledge then check this out in you, YOUR THINKING SYSTEM. The only failure the school would have is when the thinking system of the educated and the uneducated is still the same.
Don't accommodate the mindset that school is a scam because it isn't.
There was this popular quote back then that says
"If you think schools is too expensive try ignorance"
Every day I appreciate my lovely dad who make sure I graduate from school even when most people believed then in our local community that education is a waste of time.
The saying SCHOOL NA SCAM! wasn't as popular and discouraging how it is now...
Nigeria made things worse and made people have that believe that you can achieve nothing with Education..
In Nigeria, imagine a first class graduate working in an hotel as a bar man..
Some graduate doctors are teaching in primary schools..
Imagine when I graduated, I did my youth service (Nysc) in a primary school, isn't that discouraging, I'm a first class graduate for God's sake...
The Education system in Nigeria needs restructuring, why most kids and young boys go into fraud is because the people that the people they had hopes on, the people they were following their footsteps, the people the called mentor are carrying files all day looking for jobs after getting good grades from school...
How do you expect the younger ones to believe that there is hope for them after going to school..
I'm not supporting the assertion that SCHOOL NA SCAM BUT NIGERIA AS A COUNTRY NA SCAM
Our Nigerian are doing well outside the country and they are being congratulated and encouraged with good scholarship offers, but Nigeria here has nothing to offer graduates...
PRAY FOR A BETTER NIGERIA
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STOPI think that the narrative many young ones attach school and education with is that We go to school in order to earn a living!
But that is not entirely true, I mean we live in a technologically advanced world now where there are trades and businesses that require no form of education and hence many people falling into the trap of SCHOOL NA SCAM
But School and education are much more than that... Education should be rather seen as a blessing rather than a scam!!!!
Well done for this wonderful post
I was brought to your Hive post through @dreemport
-If our aim why we go to school is to learn and acquire knowledge initially, our path is always straight! Not only in Nigeria, here in our country, I also see some students who's mentality when it comes to education is not right.. Their main purpose is to have a good job that is why they wanted to have a good education, its fine, but it shouldn't be the main reason ..you should build a strong and big capital first in your self by absorbing all the knowledge you get or may get in school! Well..this was an awesome post..and I got into this informative post through @dreemport Please keep writing! Have a blessed night!🙏
I don't know about Nigeria but education has become a huge business here.
Everyone gets into it these days because they can mint money. Private tuition even for play school tiny tots flourishes.
Even the poorest of the poor know the worth of education.
Even small villages are literate, they run adult schools and night classes for working adults.
It is sad that young men think education is a scam.
What can they do without education?
I pray that these youth will embrace education and make something of their lives.
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In many countries the public schools are esteemed to be of very low quality. But that doesn't mean they don't bring value to the nation's life. They may not be perfect but they are much better than nothing, IMO ;)
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What does it mean to be literate? When you say education, what do you mean? Africans had language, writing, laws and mores long before the first ships manned by white people found their way to her shores. That we did not communicate in the English language does not make us illiterate. Education is not the purview of the British colonial empire. Every culture has education as one of the pillars of their society.