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Many people strongly believe that academic qualification is overrated.

Why is this important?

There is confusion about whether or not education guarantees success in life.

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Educated or not, everybody has a role to play on earth and the most important thing is we can all strive to make the world a better place (if we choose to).

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Popular American rapper, Killermike once said; “education’s become a pipeline to prison, simply a tool used for mass incarceration, call it the new plantation, call it the new era of slavery...” Before evaluating the validity of his comment, there is need to define what education is vis-a-vis the school system.

Education is as old as the world itself, from the days of ‘The Hunter’ to the Computer age, whether formal or informal, everyone has some form of education. My focus here is on the formal education cum the school system. Individual purposes for pursuing education can vary, understanding the goals and means of educational socialization processes may also differ according to the sociological paradigm used.
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