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A stitch in time saves nine...


The Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Once said no fewer than 1.8 million graduates in the country
Moves into the labour market every year

Laughs softly...


Like they say: "A stitch in time saves nine."

High time you start to see things differently.


1.8 million graduates yearly, no jobs, more schools being built

And more trooping into classes in same box

Wearing a disgust smirk, I shake my head and cover my face in my palms

Just one stich will save every other from surfacing


"A stitch in time saves nine."

A timely effort will prevent more later

I see the Nigerian students falling out of school boxes

Every year just like the dummy packsges fall out of factory machines finished


Except that these students were never started let alone finished


Eyes like crimson


Without potency of whatever kind that they might have received


To expand their horizon


And our prominent Authority says


School expand our horizon


Well they ain't lying just that they don't know no better themselves


That's the reason they always have to say that


Well schooled for about 16 years or more of their lives


Without the impact or an iota of education (chuckles...)


I shake my head and cover my face in my palms out of grief


The Nigerian students seems like an accident going somewhere to happen


Having a first class doesn't make you educated


Just like it sounds


First class, the first in the class


Not the first in the real world


Haven't you seen that certificate are not ruling the world


School is not preparing us for the real world


But education is


Let me show you this


An educated man can attend school and never score a ""


BUT he performs excellently in the real world


While a schooled man is always flying with colors, "As" everywhere


BUT put him in the real world and you see a new breed of a failure


And that's what is happening today


I'm not saying school is not relevant


But it should be to cultivate our mind to educate ourselves


As it doesn't have the capacity to prepare us for the real world


There's this joke going viral:


A group of the Nigerian lecturers boarded a plane


And as soon as they've all fastened up


It was announced that the plane was built by the Nigerian students


All the lecturers jumped out


Except one from the north


They asked him why he was confident in the plane


He replied "No, I'm not confident in the plane, I'm confident in what we taught them Because it can't fly the plane."


What a shame.


That should tell you something he that relies on school


Malcolm X, is renowned for what he taught himself in a prison


Not what he was taught in school


I think now you know better


That's education


Education is largely a function of life transforming information


School is just a box where fishes are taught to climb trees


And monkeys are taught to swim


It could be a place where creativity is confused


A place where creativity is marred


Now that you know these


What do you intend?


Just like they say: "A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE."





-All Poems on this thread are originally written By Cyrus Jesunifemi