We as Nigerians are complaining of lack of good governance but how many of us are talking about our educational system?
To me it seems like the system was intentionally designed to create unemployable graduates. The system is extremely theoritical. Inventions are churning out of the white man land not because they are spirits but because of the educational system. For instance, in my two hundred level in the university, we had a course on enterprenureship which of course was supposed to be practical in life. In fact, exams weren't supposed to be organized for the course due to it's nature. But exams came.
Now I was expecting the questions to be applied ones that involves practical reasoning on the side of the students. Unfortunately, questions that came out were ones that encouraged cramming. Questions like, "who stated this?" "In what year did this happen?" "When was this published?" in enterpreneurship course again? Must questions be about cramming?
Initially I was expecting questions that had to do with business founding and growth, but I was disappointed..
The state of Nigeria academic system is not one that encourage rational thinking but that which encourage following the multitude. That's the reason why job seekers are being produced yearly not job creators. And when these graduates go into politics they become problem creators not solution providers. Despite the state of the nation today, if we had solution providers in power today, somehow we would manuvered our way out.
Take mathematics for example. 99.9% of all who mathematics in our schools in this country don't know the real life application of that subject. They simply see it as an abstract course that is just there to fulfill all scriptures. Students simply calculate and calculate and calculate without knowing the meaning of what they calculating. At the end of the day, all the calculations become useless to them.. in fact, every mathematician(except teachers and lecturers) in Nigeria don't use mathematics for any real life problems.
Furthermore, graduates don't use what they studied in school for anything in most cases. Our tertiary institutions are just certificate awarders not sources of innovation. How many patents have been registered in Nigeria in the last five years? We should stop designing exam questions in such a way that promotes cramming. We should stop "Define..." "In what year..." "How many.. " "List..." "Which of these..."
Rather than write out a chemical equation and asking the student to balance it, tell him to go into the lab, mix the chemicals, describe the reaction between the elements AS HE OBSERVES IT, and explain the final product. This way he is forced to think and not follow anything he is thought in class. This is how it's being done in the developed world.
The theoritical and cramming style of academics in Nigeria is the root of exam malpractice. Since exams has to do with you replicating what you are being thought in class without disagreement. A lecturer once looked me in the face in school and told me, "Here, nobody cares about your point of view. Simply write what you're thought." How do we then expect our own Mark Zukerberg to emerge? How do our Bill Gates rise? Where is our Elon Musk?
I can talk about the poor infrastructure in our schools but that is a full topic for another day.
In conclusion, before we talk of nation building, our educational institutions need to be transformed first. From our curriculum to our teaching methods. In reality Nigerian schools are academically boring due to its abstract nature. Someone can become a proffessor in biology and have never seen a cell, in chemistry and not seen an atom, in history and never been to most historical sites in the country.
Remember the strength of a society rests on the contents of the minds of the members. And the contents can only be altered by its educational system.

Mynd44, OAM4J

What do you expect, the government does not take education seriously yet they expect magic

edoairways:
What do you expect, the government does not take education seriously yet they expect magic

Without proper education, we are going nowhere in this country. Look, we import virtually every thing we consume. In other words, we are slaves to China, Germany, USA and other industrial country...
We have engineers that produce nothing, dumb economists, incompetent teachers etc

Michaeltreasure:

Without proper education, we are going nowhere in this country. Look, we import virtually every thing we consume. In other words, we are slaves to China, Germany, USA and other industrial country...
We have engineers that produce nothing, dumb economists, incompetent teachers etc

That is what ASUU has been fighting for.

The problem is not the educational system. Educational system problem in Nigeria is just a problem among many that's glaring..

The citizens will still queue behind exploiters, looters & deceivers in 2023.
Oh God of creation! Help our youth, the truth to know.

Any politician that patronizes foreign education, healthcare, goods and services cannot be trusted to develop the critical sectors that will help Nigeria grow.

Concerning education, the problem is multi-faceted.
China and India started with patronising homemade 'inferior' goods and services.
They learnt from their mistakes, and moved on to improve every sector.
Unfortunately our leaders and celebrities don't patronise made in Nigeria.

Our taste for foreign goods and services killed our education, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Thus, reduction in employment opportunities for our youths.

We desire a working system but indirectly destroy our own.
We mostly perform well in systems we don't fully control.

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Insecurity, Poverty and Unemployment.
Exploitation, Sabotage and Embezzlement.