Fellow Nigerians have you observed that Education is in a very sharp decline in our country? Visit a regular secondary school in your neighborhood and you will observe that our education is in shambles. I am neither a brainiac nor an Albert Einstein but I can proudly say in my time education was in a far better shape.

In our time many students wrote WAEC and JAMB without assistance and still had reasonable results but today "Miracle Centre" is the order of the day. Secondary School Students of today jumble tenses, spell woefully and show just little traces of intelligence. One would think that in this computerized world, with even toddlers having access to browsing phones, information at our fingertips and access to google, wikipedia and tonnes of educational materials, there would be an increase in the intellect but sadly, reverse is the case. Social media such as 2go, whatsapp etc have even worsened the basic spell-ability of our youth.

You don't need to go far, check out comments of fellow nairalanders and you'll get a glimpse of this anomaly. Is it that aridity is now our societal norm? God forbid. The question is who is to blame?

1. Society: The Nigerian Society emphasizes more on paper qualification (Machiavellian end-justifies-means) than ability necessitating parents to enrol their children in Miracle centres. Educational competition prize money can be as "high" as 100,000 while Big Brother Africa can earn you N10,000,000. Please where is the encouragement?

2. Parents: Parents have little to no interest in their children academic performance. Some even force the school to "jump classes" for their children to finish quickly

3. Schools: I believe our schools (esp private schools) carry a very large chunk of the blame as they directly/indirectly condoned student's indolence, indiscipline and lackadaisical attitude to studies. Have any of you heard of any students repeat of late? Repeating classes is now "old school"

4. Exam bodies: Exam bodies are co-conspirators in this crime. They not only turn a blind eye on malpractices, they reduce their standard. Checkout WAEC questions of today, very cheap. I faintly remember once when Jamb cut off mark for medical students was 270 but now....

5. Teachers: Let's face it even the teachers of today are not as intellectual as the teachers of old. Many teachers today are just teaching to pass time till they get better jobs. Some are quite intelligent but are not trained to impart knowledge.

6. Students: I believe most students do not know the enormity of their actions YET else they would sit up but I think society at large is to blame because we are products of the society we live in.

Please nairalanders what do you think should be done to curb this unfortunate condition of our educational system in Nigeria?

Many Secondary School students join cults and get themselves involved in all kind of vices, forgetting that they are ruining their own lives. God help us.

@op even u sef you don fall victim


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No one pays attention to that section, all elected politician focus on oil! And oil alone even our dear educated GEJ did same. *smh*

God help our dearest country IJN

That reminds me of Mr. Lawal

this is a very serious problem we are facing in term of education. if we are to change the face of education for good all hands must be on deck. from government to the parents and the stakeholders in education. good write up bro

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Please this post deserves as much attention as possible. Pls promote this to fp lalasticlala, ishilove

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@op even u sef you don fall victim


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You're very correct I guess I'm still learning the art of posting. Thanks nonetheless

Good write up, it will get to fp

Its still not on frontpage?

Richiez:
Good write up, it will get to fp

I don't think so its almost growing white beards

tpiander:
Its still not on frontpage?

Its still not. I don't even know what qualifies for Fp no more. Issues like this needs more attention for our own sake

discipline is the most important,most of the secondary schools in Lagos lack discipline.


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Don't expect the illiterate to do anything about it though.

It is rather unfortunate

Guy, I'm a secondary school student and virtually all problems you have listed don't exist in my school. Please where did you find all these?

Teachers: No! I think the teachers should take less the blame because flogging has been abolished in secondary schools and that is the only tool a teacher can use to discipline his students.

Parents: Yes! Why? Because the tend to defend their children at all times even when they know that their child is recalcitrant and obstinate.

Also support illegal ways of manoeuvreing their wards way through.

Society: Largely! Reason is not far fetched. Everyone seems to condemn in all ramifications punishment of any sort by the teachers.

Government: Largely! Low pay and bad working conditions. If a teacher gets assaulted by the student, there is supposed to be a law protecting the teacher and punishing the student.

Students: Partly! They are in the society as such take everything the way society presented it to them.

Social Networks: Not at all.

u hit the nail on the head.undiluted truth.Not only 2go,whatsapp.u fail to add mUsic/betting the latest in town(gamble). When a student write something like'' Yelz,k,amu,how U,zup ''etc.How they'll pass remain a puzzle..one can't help but shake Ur head.We have a long way to go/curb dis madness

Everything Jaga Jaga......... I will like to blame our political class. do u know that state governors now encourage exam malpractices because they don't want opposition to blame them for mass failures of student during their regime. Meanwhile, u won't see them boosting intellectual capacity of the teachers.

Qualification over specialisation

I take exception to number 5, few are born to teach, other learn the ropes of teaching and a handful have passion for it.

Yes, many teach to pass time but in the process find fulfilment in teaching, some use it as a stepping stone to reach there destination. My Aunt, left a very lucrative job for a teaching job because she did not find fulfilment in the job. When asked about her action, she said, "I find fulfilment in moulding young mind, it was what I was born to do".

We have many teachers that can't spell properly, based on a research I did those that take their time to read and write proper english without spelling errors are either 45 yrs and above and those that use abbreviations are of the new school, the WhatsApp age.

A proprietor complained on a thread for teachers about an applicants inability to spell properly and he decide to inquire about his performance from his students, they advice the teacher should teach Kindergarten.

My Dad taught before he reached the zentih of his career, my Mum is a teacher, My Uncle taught before he left the field and I also taught. My mum was the only trained teacher among us.

Examination Malpractice is the order of the day, miracle centers is no news to teenagers, assisting student in WAEC/GCE is stale news and this is because hard work is no longer in vogue......lies!!!!!!! My ex-girlfriend went all the way to Osun for miracle center, even when I warned against it, her actions and the after effect. My close friend went through miracle center to make his O'level papers but today find it difficult to graduate since 2012. I repeated Primary 3,5 and S.S.2. I wrote Jamb four times, but that did not deter me in achieveing my dreams. It is odd for student to repeat classes in this 21st century.

The family is to be blamed, charity begins at home. A family where they think it is OK to cut corner, cheat and lie is not a problem, the child see it as a norm. Why would you tell your child to tell the visitor you are not around whereas you are in the room?


Most parent do not want to hear or see their child/ward fail(ed) a particular subject, they assume the school is incompetent forgetting that they also have a role to play in assisting in assignments.

Yes, we have teacher that are not even trained, some do not have the qualifications, a few have been teaching without even trying to be certified by any relevant awarding body or institution, even the graduates in the noble profession do not take the job serious and so they give less than their best.

The government have failed in it responsibility hence the need for many mushrooms schools.
#my opinion.

Fashola tried for education in Lagos state,,in terms of infrastructure and others..

I think INTROVERT has secured a job for herself. She is no more making FTC these days

DrayZee:
Guy, I'm a secondary school student and virtually all problems you have listed don't exist in my school. Please where did you find all these?

Anywhere there is secondary school in South west

Is quite unfortunately we most times relegate tins we need to priortise to d background...Wen SON,MAN,NUC,NUT, to mention juz à few, are filled wit mediocre without any know how on standards...definitely dat wil be d résultant effect...
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Talking abt Secondary schools sef, no Naija Uni amont d best 1000 Unis worldwide.. Can à Naija sec skool made d 1st 100,000 sec skool worldwide

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The 36 state governors who are constitutionally responsible for secondary education need to be castrated all of them.

Special treatment should be reserved for ex-Kano governor Kwakwanso who built $1 billion school in Niger Republic while almajiris continue to roam the streets of his state.
Another candidate for special punishment is Fashola who is a smooth operator cum talker but EMPTY in delivery to the people.


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If I am not mistaken the Eko Project is the $90 million loan from the World Bank that Fashola did not want to disclose how it was spent because "FoI does not apply to Lagos state"