iamsegsy: why not give us millions of successful people who went to school and get dis crap outta here...... dis are d kinda things that discourages youth from studying hard.... they all wanna be lyk wizkid,davido....it might work for them but not for all

u should encourage us not discourage us...

kunlesehan:
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What a powerful independence day message this is.

icekidgodfrey: And the aim of this post again is to...?


See, things like this mislead our youths, now everybody thinks they can be musicians. Not everybody would make it through the fast track! The number of touts is increasing, I fear for the next generation

menesheh: are you quoting ironically or what?

hifaif:

What you ended up saying is that no man is an island.

Moreover, 3 out of the world's top ten famous software engineers have no degree.

John Carmark pioneered Adaptive Tile Refresh (used in Command Keen)

Ulf Michael Widenius wrote the MySQL Server and Maria DB fork

Jamie Zawinski contributed significantly to Mozilla and XEmacs.

They were engineers with no degree.

gebest: those dat made it without education are few, but those that made it with education are too numerous to mention.

NwaAnambra: Arthur Eze, G.U.O, Bishop Okonkwo, Sir Emeka Offor, Chikason, Seaman, Fenabros limited and so on

Mobsync:

Seun went to OAU

rattlesnake: But somebody else who went to university on their behalf was behind their success......

Don jazzy cant make music without some software developer
Coscharis cant sell cars without the engineerw who made the cars
Famfa oil cant do business without the oil engineers
Mercy Johnson cant have Big braests without Dr 90210

etc etc etc

I will rather go to school

Rastamann: Are you using this forum to discourage people from getting a good education?
Yes not all those that got education makes i in life, what proportion of those with education make it in life compared to the proportion that had no education.

Guys, get the education and wait for the opportunity....Abraham Lincoln

bolukaz: 8 succesful people alone? Why not take a short trip around your hood and observe scores of uneducated people living 'just' around the poverty line, these people just happened to get a 1-in-a-million chance of making it big in an education-driven society

rattlesnake: wth is DB fukc

NwaAnambra: Arthur Eze, G.U.O, Bishop Okonkwo, Sir Emeka Offor, Chikason, Seaman, Fenabros limited and so on

micolaj: pls don't brainwash d youth, everyone is unique in his or her own way nd whether u like it or not education is the pillar of any DEVELOPED nation, hw many LIONEL MESSI CHINESE pple get? or if dey giv u Visa 4 deir u no go go?

madridfc:

sexzskil: It is either this op has no hope of going to a university or failed badly while there.

iamsegsy: why not give us millions of successful people who went to school and get dis crap outta here...... dis are d kinda things that discourages youth from studying hard.... they all wanna be lyk wizkid,davido....it might work for them but not for all

u should encourage us not discourage us...

hifaif:

The OP said '...who never went to a university'

You can be educated without going to a university. In fact, education is relative.

emmanuelogbe: Why do I get this feeling that it is only in Nigeria that we don't value education? Having a degree may not necessarily determine your tomorrow, but it gives you an edge over others in the future. It commands respect from the society, and it also defines you. There are lots of people in school today who should not even had bothered about going to school because, they are not receptive to the purpose of formal education. They just don't want to learn. Their only purpose is to experience that form of education. I'd advise such persons to go into trade or learn a vocation. For those who realise their areas of interest in time, it is a great opportunity for them to begin to explore their potentials.
But then, you must understand that there is no one formula to success. What works for one may not necessarily work for you. Even education comes in quality. Not everybody can become an entrepreneur. In as much as you advise people to go into trades and vocation, we need people in the society who can contribute their quota to societal development. People who are trained formally to be professionals in the field. In as much as we need entrepreneurs in the society, we also need Academicians, Actuaries, Doctors, Lawyers, Economists, Accountants, Pharmacists, and so many others. How would you become any of the above professionals without a tertiary education? Look at those in the oil and gas sectors, banks, military, civil service commission, telecom, insurance companies, hospitals and others; how do you expect to thrive successfully in such organization without tertiary education? I know a lot of people who work in some of these places without their degree but are in regrets and are striving with so much effort to get their first degree.
The bottom line is this, know what you want in life and pursue it. Do not try to generalize because you see that things aren't going well with others because, you don't know the story and situation surrounding them.
No matter how you look at it, Education is indispensable and Tertiary Education is very important.

rattlesnake: But somebody else who went to university on their behalf was behind their success......

Don jazzy cant make music without some software developer
Coscharis cant sell cars without the engineers who made the cars
Famfa oil cant do business without the oil engineers
Mercy Johnson cant have Big braests without Dr 90210

etc etc etc

I will rather go to school