Our Too Much Dependence On Pen
Is Sending Us Backward
“If 2y(5x-7y) -6y X +6 = 45 find x.”
Yesterday I was in the sitting room watching
a program called China24 on CCTV NEWS,
an electric lamp manufacturer was
interviewed together with his workers in his
factory.
The workers are kids between the
ages of 12-18. And the most beautiful part
of it was that the kids can on their own
manufacture same.

Now let's come down to Nigeria. Nigerian
students are busy searching for "x" while
students in the developed countries are
manufacturing things for the development
of their country.

In Nigeria, our engineering students spend
nearly all their time solving difficult
equations and searching for "X and Y".
In Nigeria, students will be asked to search
for "x", I do smile and ask myself how can
we use Algebra and simultaneous equation
to boost the economy? How can we use the
located "x" to solve the challenges facing
us?

In Nigeria, teacher will draw a circle having
dots in it on the chalk board and tell the
kids "this is an Orange" imagine.
In Nigeria, a teacher will be in the class
room using acid to change litmus paper to
red on the chalk board. In fact, in Nigeria
the best place to mix acid with base is on
chalk board.

A teacher will be in the class
teaching rock and it's types without rock samples and expect the
students to be able to identify them in real
sense. How possible?

However, the above are some of the
reasons why at 50+ as an oil producing
country we are still importing tooth-pick
and matches. Our brain has been channeled
to the fact that failure to go to school will
end one up as a domestic servant of the
educated ones which I seriously disagree
with. We can't all be in the class room at the
same time and expect us to catch up with
the developed countries, it is never done; we
will keep depending on them with such
barbaric idea.

Let those that are willing to go into sport be
on the field or track not in class room,
Christiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid FC was
expelled from school at the age of 14 and
today he is a world class footballer.
Let's take those that are good in construction
to factories or workshops not class room.
Let's take away pen from our engineering
students and send them out of class.
Let's take away pen from those that are
willing to take hoe, cutlass, hammer, saw,
screw driver etc. Our too much dependent
on pen is sending us backward.

To me, spending 5, 6 or more years in
tertiary institution is nothing but a total
waste of time, 3 years is enough for
engineering courses. 12 calender month is
enough for food related courses and 3 or 4
years is enough to be a lawyer. At this
juncture, I will like to call on the
government at all level to look into this and
find a lasting solution to it.

Lastly, our government should stop sending
the talented ones away by sending them
abroad for training and failed to establish/
provide where they will be discharging what
they've learnt or the skills they've acquired
upon their arrival.

If we can do this, I
believe that few years to come Nigeria will
be the greatest country of the world while
others will be on the queue at our back.

Do you agree with me ??

Quite agreed bro tnx!

lecturerdabo:
Quite agreed bro tnx!

bro ure good.

Yes indeed. If all this finding of "X" were a valuable skill, you would have seen long time ago the finding of the missing loot.

Math makes the mind sharp but there are so much more basics that are applicable to creating useful things in life.

19naia:
Yes indeed. If all this finding of "X" were a valuable skill, you would have seen long time ago the finding of the missing loot.

Math makes the mind sharp but there are so much more basics that are applicable to creating useful things in life.

. Yh that's true

How can we achieve all these without our govt because i no they won't help. They are more than wicked.

whitestar01:
How can we achieve all these without our govt because i no they won't help. They are more than wicked.

that's d main issue