I believe, there y ,should be First things first and not last things first.Yes!! Education is the best Legacy,but we are getting it wrong in our preparation.
As a parent,one must ask themselves ,what can my child do without first going to school or without yet entering Tertiary institution?
And when u get a reply, u wud feel really sad and discouraged to find an answer as a big NO!!!!

A child cannot drive
A child cannot fix and repair things
A child cannot maintain things talkless of handling things-bad Managment skills.
A child owns nothing
A child cannot be trained to find solution to problems
A child who cannot go to the Farm or own a farm before talking of school
A child cannot engage in Skill aquisition/vocational skill centers.What would he gain after 4 years in a tertiary institution?
A child that cannot know how to manage Funds/finances.
A child that cannot save but spends money on trivial things
That is why i keep saying things ,the whites who own the Education themselves do not place too much emphasis on Paper qualification.

What they place emphasis on is ''what you can do''
what you enjoy doing.
That is why in their primary school/elementary,the foundation is laid through exhibitions by each pupil.
The resources to create things with different types of skills are there and it is practicalised and they develop from that stage ,only to master it in University.
But in Nigeria we have no foundational development and are only bookish,bookish bookish than practish practish practish!!!

It is a shame Japanses kids are building calculators while Nigerian kids r folowing their parents all about.
American kids are inventing software programmes while Nigerian kids only know how to steal meet from the poKorean kids would be working in a clothing factory,while Nigerian kids go street hawking,even those in schools.

Ask yourself, have i even had time for my children to find out wat they love doing.
Eg a parents who notice that Junior always fixes electrical appliances at age 7 should have already taken him to learn at an electrician while still going to primary or secondary school, no knowledge is lost.
But our mentality here is to beat, shout and rant ''hey!!! Junior is that your book? C'mon go and take your book.That is the stupid mentality we in nigeria have and thats how we kill talent and frustrate early interests and development in our children.

There is no shame in allowing ur kids learn as an apprentice!!!

You would find young british kids doing expriments in their classes while Nigerian kids make noise and hit their desks even in the school.

When would all this stop??
I blame it on the parents who kill talents .some parents also impose course of study on their children .you wud hear ''you must study law!!! Whereas the poor lass or chap wants to study medecine or engineering.
When u force that kid in his youth, he would be bitter against you for the rest of his/her life.

I tell you students are sick of reading their books nowadays mostly in tetiary institutions!!!
Those who selected practical course of study prefers to do things practically,but when they get to the tertiary Institutions and meet crap there, they would loose interest in reading:

To make matters worse education is now been commercialised ,thus making it expensive.
It is making a lot of parents become poor and without hope because they had no occupation prior to their kids Admission.

No plan to save, no plan to train or aquire a skill for their children's survival.

It is all frustrating and thats why students donot find their books intresting.
The female ones would go into hairdressing,tailoring,cultism,prostitution and lesbianism while in school just to survive and make up for what their parents cannot afford to give, while the male ones do menial jobs outside campus,join cults and occults ,some join Gayism and some do horrible things which just to give an impression that their parents have tried and cannot help anymore.
After Graduation, they r back to square one.
Parents who keep thinking that it is their kids that should be giving to them would be surprised that their kids would still be collecting from them.

Iam not surprised, he/she didnt have a skill or get time to develop their talens or what they know best doing while at home or before gaining admission.
Time for parents to see this mistake and correct it.