abdulwastecx:
In my 200 level, my engineering communication lecturer was accusing me of having a northern accent and not been able to pronounce some words properly. he told me that English language has made it possible for scientific principles to be expressed properly. The question I ask him then was why Japan with 127million people has produce several nobel prize winners in science and technology and can be boast of several world class infrastructure, engineering capability and third largest economy by speaking a japanese kanji language

you see why dem moffoz will always challenge the internet for enlightening us... The ages when dey won't be able do deceive us with professorship of ONLY WHITE BUSHY HAIR is here abeg

AfricanApple:
he is right in every way and does make sense. what have u been reading and writing on NL, herald, na wa u o, seems your addiction to Nl is on a high level. most of d things u read here aren't even true.
talk about writing, u know very well that we all don't write our words in full, we abbreviates and dats not a good way to learn how to write correctly.


the internet can never in any way be compared to books, d net is full of fakes and wrongs. it makes pple become lazy in reading books where they can really learn and discourage those who are already lazy and would have been willing to learn


I support what he said a beg

some pple can browse (mostly chat) from morning till night but can't read one leaf of book in a day, that's a big shame.

AfricanApple:
u seriously say d medium through which u read does not matter? all I can say is hmmmm cos something is obvious here.

so u think Google has authentic answers to every questions uhn

abdulwastecx:
In my 200 level, my engineering communication lecturer was accusing me of having a northern accent and not been able to pronounce some words properly. he told me that English language has made it possible for scientific principles to be expressed properly. The question I ask him then was why Japan with 127million people has produce several nobel prize winners in science and technology and can be boast of several world class infrastructure, engineering capability and third largest economy by speaking a japanese kanji language

AfricanApple:


so u think Google has authentic answers to every questions uhn

AfricanApple:
did u just write sis, hahaha

Blakyclyde:

Bros, check inside dat locker wella.
I don dey find Akpan and The Smugglers, Chike and the River, the Tortoise and the Elepant since before Prof. Soyinka was born. If u see am, abeg, ping me.

On the issue on ground,
When Richad Quest of CNN asks business men (on READING FOR LEADING) how they prefer to read--by Tablets of books, majority of them said books!
Even Oscar Onyema of the Nigerian Stock Exchange said he prefer books!


The prof has said it all, but that doesn't mean I should throw away my laptop sha.

Dahjhi:


Don't mind that baba.. He's old.. Just because students now challenges their same old methods and junk feedings.. We now asked dem questions they can't handle off hand... We are now councious of our environment and happenings , we are now growing with the space the global world is growing..
Baba with due respect you can now go and face your politics now self.. Eshe pupo..


My 5naira

OrlandoOwoh:

You're misquoting the professor. Yes, the internet revolution has helped in some ways, it has its own negative side. Where else do people write in mnemonics if not in the internet. We have, for example, people who write "cos", "fget" and "cr8t" for "because", "forget" and "create" respectively. Can you do this in an examination? You answer will be "no." But do you know that some people now do it in the examination without knowing.
The internet is a blessing to this generation, but it shouldn't be misused. What positive impact do you think the internet has on a high school student that doesn't do more than 2going?
The way a person uses the internet is what would determine if the prof. is right or wrong. As for me, I do research, using it on facebook, nairaland, politics, etc. In doing anything here, I make sure I engage serious minded people whom I learn from. In commenting, I make sure I pay attention to my use of punctuation marks and expression.

herald9:


I know sarcasm when I see one
My locker doesn't contain such books...The first intriguing novel have ever read was gotten from there: MINE BOY BY ABRAHAM PETERS.... Then ROBOT OF DAWN BY WILLIAM ASIMOV...

It's not just made up of novels...Other life enhancing books are there like GOOD HEALTH AND LONGEVITY... DICTIONARY OF MIDWIFERY....HUMANS ANATOMY IN DIAGRAMS... etc


The importance of books cannot be overemphasized...

But then we can't condemn the internet because some people find It's presence a threat to their career...

And by the way...The vision of a green world can be achieved by the reduction in the amount of trees cut down yearly...

@bold

Blakyclyde:

It wasn't a sacarsm, brother.
It was meant to be a joke.

Don't tell me you don't read books because you're trying to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer!

3coins:

"sis" is in the dictionary,sis.

Rooneyboy:


With the internet around our lecturers/Doctors/and professors can't deceive us anymore, these days they know we go back home to do our investigation/findings ...

A doctor tried one rubbish with me some months back ,i went home and consulted my best friend "google" , I came back to his office the following day educating him on the subject matter , I saw the shock written all over his face. A priceless expression on his face that day

This single act saved me from his knives, cos he was really agitating for a surgery.

.......... # I refuse to be a passive patient/ student

webninja:


AfricanApple my girl, Your comment looks retarded.

Rooneyboy:


Stop spewing rubbish dear , the positives of the internet out muscles the negatives.

Ur argument holds no water @all.

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter Party Affairs, Senator Ben Ndi Obi, who endowed the Zik lecture series, said the project was started three years ago to immortalize Nigeria’s first President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in whom the school was named.

herald9:

No no no

Not at all...

I read books

I read e-books!

darne:
This man has a very strong point, i am hoping to become a writer/novelist someday too

AfricanApple:
POV, my opinion is not rubbish.
d prof said d truth and u are all vibrating. d truth is indeed bitter

as a matter of fact, measuring d positivity and negativity depends on what u are using d net for.

for communication, d positivity outweighs d neg

but for info, d neg outweighs d pos


becos d prof hit d nail on d head, he is suddenly wrong, na wa o

blink182:
Obviously, professor has been left behind. Writing and reading has even improved with technology and technology will make education cheap.