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I don't understand why the bot keeps banning me. I have decided not to use my brutal response and pasted it to ChatGPT so an AI can use my words to roast them. These are my words but was reworded a little.

kpankpangolo:
Somebody should explain to me. It’s not the same in sane climes. I understand it’s not a suitable word but some people with only SSCE qualifications are so annoying that I blurt the word to destroy their self esteem.

Calling people “illiterate” just to destroy their self-esteem says more about your insecurity than their education. If someone can read and write, they are not illiterate. Using that word incorrectly only proves you spent years in school without actually understanding the language you claim makes you superior.

Education is not limited to a university classroom. Human civilization was built long before modern degrees existed. Farmers, craftsmen, traders, and apprentices created functioning societies centuries before the modern academic system appeared.

The university system itself expanded largely during and after the Industrial Revolution to produce specialized workers for growing economies. It was never meant to be the only path to knowledge.

Today, someone sitting in a small room in Enugu with internet access can learn physics, engineering, or programming from world-class sources. Meanwhile, some university students spend those same years chasing women, abusing drugs, joining cult groups, and graduating with little practical skill.

A certificate does not equal intelligence.
In fact, calling people “illiterate” simply because they followed a different path — such as apprenticeships or vocational training — only exposes how shallow someone’s understanding of education really is.

And by the way, if we follow your logic, you’re also an illiterate in every language you cannot read or write. So the problem isn’t other people’s education. It’s your definition of it.

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SmartPolician:
That's because the vast majority of people who didn't go beyond secondary school cannot read and write. Their spellings and sentences are often terrible.

If you doubt me, check people's comments on social media. Being an illiterate means someone cannot read and write well.

This is the most unfortunate comment I have read this week and I feel so bad for wasting seconds of my life reading this. I have never met a single person who went to high school and cannot read. I know legends who have built multimillion dollar online businesses and they had to drop out of school to concentrate.

Maybe you should change your environment and stop shoving your reality into our throats. You feel like a fool because most of those who built the forum and social media you enjoy today weren't wasting away in college like you did.

It's a shame that in 2026, you have such an archaic mindset. I now understand why people like you hate AI so much because it has made it easier to show how majority of you university graduates wasted away your life in school.

Go to the supermarket and get some shame, you need it.

Another roasting from ChatGPT using my original article.

kpankpangolo:
Somebody should explain to me. It’s not the same in sane climes. I understand it’s not a suitable word but some people with only SSCE qualifications are so annoying that I blurt the word to destroy their self esteem.

You had to insult people to “destroy their self-esteem,” and somehow you still think you’re the intelligent one. That alone says everything.

First, if someone can read and write, they are not illiterate. Using the word incorrectly only shows that all the schooling you brag about failed to teach you basic language.

Second, education did not begin with universities. Human civilization functioned for thousands of years before modern degrees existed. The expansion of formal schooling accelerated during the Industrial Revolution because growing economies needed trained workers, not because a certificate suddenly became the measure of intelligence.

Today, knowledge is everywhere. Someone sitting in a small room in Enugu with an internet connection can learn physics, engineering, programming, or economics from the same material used in top universities. Meanwhile, some university students spend those same years doing drugs, chasing women, joining cult groups, and graduating with nothing but a piece of paper.

A certificate is proof that you attended school. It is not proof that you are intelligent.

The real irony is this: the moment you start calling people “illiterate” simply because they followed a different path—apprenticeship, trade, or self-education—you expose how little you actually understand about education itself.

And if we apply your logic consistently, you’re also an illiterate in every language you cannot read or write.

So the issue isn’t other people’s education.

It’s your arrogance.

There are still lots of people with university degrees who can't even speak proper, simple English or even write properly or even read with understanding. Your formative years are enough to know these and not any university degrees. A school cert holder that knows how to read, speak and write properly with understanding is not an illiterate. University degrees are for specific learning to go further with career choices. University degrees doesn't make one literate

kiddaz:
There are still lots of people with university degrees who can't even speak proper, simple English or even write properly or even read with understanding. Your formative years are enough to know these and not any university degrees. A school cert holder that knows how to read, speak and write properly with understanding is not an illiterate. University degrees are for specific learning to go further with career choices. University degrees doesn't make one literate

These people are extremely ignorant. They genuinely believe they need degrees and higher degrees to think for themselves. If everyone thought like this, humanity wouldn't have reached this level of technological advancement. This is why they expect to get rich after school.

Modified: Just because someone can speak English doesn't mean they are intelligent. English is just a language like Igbo, Hausa, and so on. The only people who should brag about languages are those that can speak multiple languages without these horrible accents these so-called graduates torment my ears with.

I'm challenging any Nigerian college "graduate" to come here and prove that people with high school education are "illiterates." There's absolutely nothing a graduate can teach me except what they studied in school (and that's if they paid any attention in school).

And even if they know what they studied, I will teach myself right here in my home country and still beat them.

If you are NOT a University Grajet, you are an Illiterate.

But as a man, if you Train your Girlfriend in the University and she graduates, then you too is a Grajet.

I guess Bill Gates is also an illiterate.

Samantha125:
I guess Bill Gates is also an illiterate.

Oh yes . Don't even go too far, I know a 16 year old who made hundreds of thousands of dollars while he was still in high school. He just dropped out of school, he made his first million dollars this January.

The reason I brought the money part up is because here in Nigeria, these "graduates" believe you'd never go far without going to uni. They believe they know better than anyone who isn't in uni while using Nairaland and Facebook built by school dropouts.

They probably watch one of that guy's videos on YouTube.

You go explain tire.

SuperOnyi:




I don't understand why the bot keeps banning me. I have decided not to use my brutal response and pasted it to ChatGPT so an AI can use my words to roast them. These are my words but was reworded a little.

Vinnie2000:
If you are NOT a University Grajet, you are an Illiterate.

But as a man, if you Train your Girlfriend in the University and she graduates, then you too is a Grajet.

Do we still have men training their gf in school while they themselves don't have a degree

SuperOnyi:




I'm challenging any Nigerian college "graduate" to come here and prove that people with high school education are "illiterates." There's absolutely nothing a graduate can teach me except what they studied in school (and even if they paid any attention in school).

And even if they know what they studied, I will teach myself right here in the home country and still beat them.

Of course it's well known. There is a difference between being schooled and being educated. Education is about acquiring knowledge and it is life long and not institution bound. Of course a lot of Nigerians only read to pass exams and stopped reading the moment they graduate from school. So it's well known. Of course most Nigerians are well schooled but not educated. They went through school but school did not pass through them.