₦airaland Forum

Those who loot Central Bank so that their children can study RKRK Yoruba, Igbo and Islamic Studies abroad also got "good education " abi?

Hard to accept that once colonialists change your orientation to pursue and to yearn foreign indoctrination, you are better than locals.

casualobserver:
If Nigerian degrees had value why do you not see children of Nigerian elite going there? In my time rich man and poor man’s children went to the same universities here in Nigeria.

By Nigerian degrees I mean public universities.

If Nigerian degrees had value why do ordinary middle class Nigerian struggle to send their children abroad? You think it is everybody that sends their kids abroad that is rich? You think I will pay $50k dollars in fees abroad and expose my children to the nonsense abroad like gay and transgender no sense if they could get a good education in a Nigerian public university?

nobaga:
Those who loot Central Bank so that their children can study RKRK Yoruba, Igbo and Islamic Studies abroad also got "good education " abi?

Hard to accept that once colonialists change your orientation to pursue and to yearn foreign indoctrination, you are better than locals.

You are missing the point. I am a firm advocate for reversing the inferiority complex and colonial mentality that we have as Nigerians, speaking in fake accents, having foreign names, always consuming western products and copying western way etc etc t. You will see this theme in my past posts whenever the need arose. I have even posted several times that I believed the biggest problem we have as a country is that our education is in English and not our native languages. That is a different matter, if your schools are bad they are bad. If you go to a bad school, most of your graduates are bad, it doesn’t mean you won’t have a few good ones but your university will gain a reputation for incompetent graduates and that reputation will contaminate the exceptional students just like a dullard who goes to a highly rated school will benefit even though he does not deserve it. If you go to a university that doesn’t have the right equipment, they don’t have the right equipment and that’s that, you can’t have the same knowledge and experience as a student who went to a university with that equipment. Foreign universities also have bad schools. How many Nigerian universities are rated?

Universitiy of east London for instance is a 3rd tier university, Yet today It is ranked higher (851-890) than the highest ranked public university in Nigeria I.e University of Ibadan in 1057. It’s not that UEL is a bad university, it is just ok, it is average, it is just there, it is nowhere near the best and yet our best is ranked below it? In the 70s and early 80s our universities used to be ranked along some of the best in the world. In the good old days even university of Ibadan will not employ a lecturer who graduated from the university of east London.

Put it this way, there was a time when a university of Ibadan degree was a university of London degree, that is how highly ranked our degrees were. Not equivalent to o! Not similar to, your degree from UI was B.sc London, same as someone who studied in London at imperial college, LSE etc etc.,

In the 70s and 80s our professor were renowned internationally, they were among the foremost authorities in their fields. That’s why we had professors like Wole Soyinka and chin-up Achebe, to name a few. How many Nigerian professors in public universities can hold their own with their international peers? The only exception is law.

Thank you for your points.

But good schools and standard can only be achieved over a period of time and good competition at home. We have wasted those days because we can get "good education" outside. People and countries started out with standards below par and work their way up. Unfortunately, we are working our way down because the only thing that matters today is how to acquire foreign currencies by any means. It's a sick culture and education suffers because of it.

It is crucial to point out Nigerian schools still teach Arts and Culture better today in real environment than foreign universities. Of course, sometimes we wonder if foreigners and Blacks that take our Arts and Culture seriously may have to be imported to teach our Youths because of their warped outside indoctrination.

A delicate balance right now when other achievements have been ignored for only one thing - money!

You may remember the days when teaching and teachers were the nobles endeavor.

casualobserver:
You are missing the point. I am a firm advocate for reversing the inferiority complex and colonial mentality that we have as Nigerians, speaking in fake accents, having foreign names, always consuming western products and copying western way etc etc t. You will see this theme in my past posts whenever the need arose. I have even posted several times that I believed the biggest problem we have as a country is that our education is in English and not our native languages. That is a different matter, if your schools are bad they are bad. If you go to a bad school, most of your graduates are bad, it doesn’t mean you won’t have a few good ones but your university will gain a reputation for incompetent graduates and that reputation will contaminate the exceptional students just like a dullard who goes to a highly rated school will benefit even though he does not deserve it. If you go to a university that doesn’t have the right equipment, they don’t have the right equipment and that’s that, you can’t have the same knowledge and experience as a student who went to a university with that equipment. Foreign universities also have bad schools. How many Nigerian universities are rated?

Universitiy of east London for instance is a 3rd tier university, Yet today It is ranked higher (851-890) than the highest ranked public university in Nigeria I.e University of Ibadan in 1057. It’s not that UEL is a bad university, it is just ok, it is average, it is just there, it is nowhere near the best and yet our best is ranked below it? In the 70s and early 80s our universities used to be ranked along some of the best in the world. In the good old days even university of Ibadan will not employ a lecturer who graduated from the university of east London.

Put it this way, there was a time when a university of Ibadan degree was a university of London degree, that is how highly ranked our degrees were. Not equivalent to o! Not similar to, your degree from UI was B.sc London, same as someone who studied in London at imperial college, LSE etc etc.,

In the 70s and 80s our professor were renowned internationally, they were among the foremost authorities in their fields. That’s why we had professors like Wole Soyinka and chin-up Achebe, to name a few. How many Nigerian professors in public universities can hold their own with their international peers? The only exception is law.