Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein

From the student perspective; not only do the Nigerian school want 'our fish' to climb a tree, they want it to fly high in the sky like a bird, which at it's entirety can never happen. We are not robots!


*The modern day Nigerian schooling and the government! and the staff*


To every leader out there in the system; is anyone of you proud of what you're doing or have done so far? Do you realize how many kids relate to that fish?
-thinking there is no point in this 'old-school' type of educational system? Thinking they're forced to believe and repeat the same thing, attending different lectures, virtually the same way- same boring way everyday!

Enough of these boring theories!

Shall we proceed? �

The world has progressed, students who are creative and innovative, and who can think independently and critically should be recognized.

Not those that can memorize a whole physics textbook, without being able to prove a dime about Isaac Newton's law of motion practically. Again, the world has evolved. Let's do more of hands-on teaching. �

A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods.�‍♂

Little wonder why an average Nigerian student is a genius overseas, where adequate and efficient hands-on educating methods are conducted other than a persistent inadequate, ineffective and inefficient, noncreative form of education. We read the news everyday- Nigerian graduate bags first class here and there overseas.

Every scientist would tell you no two brains are the same, and every parent of course, would confirm that claim.

```So tell me why a teacher would stand in front of students with different needs, different dreams, different gifts, and teach them the same thing, same way all round the year! That's horrific! �����

I call this educational malpractice! ```

Imagine a doctor prescribing the same drugs to all of his patients.�

The result would be TRAGIC.

You complain of poor performances almost everytime. Wait a minute..

Why would students be forced to offer series of 'meaningless and stressful courses' (courses which some students are extremely bad at) from other departments. They're forced to offer these courses for years, yet retaining the same boring traditional teaching method. This is an act of intellectual abuse. It is time wasting and dream crushing.

Yet you force us all to compete for the "A"s. A letter better used to determine a product's quality. Grade "A" palm oil for example. Not our grades!

Some tests are too crude for students. I'm not preaching laziness here. It's obviously the naked truth.

The school is an ancient institution that has outlived it's usage. Compare for example the modern day communication, � automobiles�� and hospitals�� to how they used to be in the 70s. There is big difference right?
Obviously, the change has been significantly constant.

Now compare the modern day schooling to that of the 70s. No difference!! Still the same traditional boring, noncreative stand-and-deliver way of lecturing while the world has massively evolved. Yet our teachers complain in front of the class every now and then. How disheartening � Attached is a picture of the Nigerian classroom in the 80s.

In literally over half a century, nothing has changed in the schooling system.
Yet they claim to prepare students for the future, but the question here is are we preparing the students for the future or the past?

Isn't the past even far better? In the past, there are big chances you get employed- as in get paid as an undergraduate. Government sponsors your education, companies come competing for fresh graduates and all that..

They say education is the best legacy, well that's true but not in the modern day Nigeria! A country where heartless looters are celebrated.

I accuse people of authority for killing creativity, individuality, and the intellectual of the students- the budding leaders!

Well, most of the people who created or rather approve these curriculums never had the experience of being a teacher, oh! they don't even have the potentials of being one.�

They fly their own wards out of the country! Leaving them out of the ill educational standards/policies they formulated. Since they are successful, they care less about the future of the unsuccessful citizens.

In conclusion, let's talk about the way the government treats the employees.

The heartbreaking issue is 'underpayment of staff'. Let's talk about the teaching staff.

Teachers have the most important job on the planet but yet, they are underpaid.

Let's be honest, teachers should earn as much as doctors.

Doctors can perform surgical operations on the heart of a kid, agreed. But a great teacher reaches into the heart and soul of the kid, he prepares his mind for a better future.

When these teachers are not adequately paid, they are hardly motivated to genuinely deliver their various teaching duties.

They would save a future drug addict, a kidnapper, and an armed robber who would ruin, and negatively influence the lives good people, only and only if they are adequately paid and appreciated. .


Stop underpaying our teachers. Save the future.

It's time we start imitating a country like China.

Both the government and the school staff should focus on aptitude tests and boost the creativity in students, other than those theories which even the teachers cannot prove.
I wonder how a biochemist is able to work perfectly in a banking hall.

What's our d^mn stress gan?? ��

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On the other hand anyways..
If the lecturers are well paid, such cases as ASUU strike would never occur.

We all know the effect the six months strike had on students. Bad things happened. The outside world is real!


_...a concerned Nigerian student.._


*GBADEBO GBOLAHAN A.*


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*PHENOL*

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