crixuss:


There are lots of people without university degrees that are smarter and more informed than majority of people with degrees. I mean no disrespect but there are people even here in Nigeria without degrees whose level of thinking are way above yours. And deciding to judge someone's intelligence or way of thinking based on the ownership of a degree is quite naive. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't own a degree. Steve Jobs didn't own a degree. Lot of the brilliant tech guys working in silicon valley don't have degrees. In fact 35% of the world's billionaires don't have a degree. Degrees are really over rated and given the present financial climate and market dynamics of today's society, I wouldn't classify anyone who decides not to have a degree as unwise.
Stop quoting out of context. Mark dropped out of Harvard same as Bill Gates I guess. Have u ever wondered how they got into Harvard in the first place? You must be super good. All those countries like America and UK that people quote are not in the same league with Nigeria . They have working economies.

The reason for going to school primarily, is to acquire the knowledge and exposure to enable you do something better than those that did attend higher learning not necessarily to work at a white collar desk.

A graduate that sets up a shoe making outlet would not think in terms of a shop but a shoe factory with requisite marketing, management, and better technical know how in terms of equipment handling.

A graduate of Agriculture would rather think in terms of mechanized farming.

Bet it, time is up for all those opportunist mentioned earlist.

There was a time in Nigeria, when all u needed to be a minister of the Federal Republic or a Director in Federal parental was just your closeness to the C n C, even Primary School Cert.

Nowadays, events have overtaken such realities. That's why you see some members of the political class running to Ivy leagues!

YelloweWest:

My dear I agree completely with u.
Marriage is not all about money and success. You want to marry a person whom u share common ground with and reason alike.
An educated woman with a non educated man is a bad mix!
1. His ego: everything she says will be met with "because I no go school abi" no matter her purest of intentions.
2: no amount of money can give a person the experience and exposure from the four walls of a university.

My sister with a masters degree married an oil worker with no university exposure.... that marriage is just hell to say the least!
There sense of reasoning is on two completely different levels.

grossintel:
Your sense of reasoning seems to amaze me, you lack exposure and your mindset and understanding are greatly impinged by the messed up country you live in. Do you know how much you get paid for an hour work minimum without a degree in Sweden? $13, how about with a degree? $13. How about a technical education of the required field you work in? $15, $17,$18,$20, how about with years of experience and technical education? $100k per annum. Your country is messed up, out there no one cares about your degree, as long as you know how to do the job, that makes you qualified. Nigeria is messed up and incredibly corrupt, the reason why a lawyer can be the minister of power and housing. There is a huge difference between being educated and owning a degree, you simply have a flawed mindset of what a dropout should look like. I have a friend who dropped out of a uni in Nigeria because he is too intelligent to be schooled by Nigeria's applauding educational system. He went to a technical school for an IT course in the U.S.A and landed a job with a tech startup in bay area California (Silicon Valley), today he earns about $100k per annum. Of course, if he returns to Nigeria, he will be tagged an illiterate, why? over a worthless piece of paper that can be bought in Nigeria (literally), but in a developed country he's regarded a man of intellect. Back then in school I once had a heating argument with the most intelligent boys in my class, over an incredibly stupid statement. "Airplanes fly with black magic and demons make them fly", believe it or not, there are idiots like this with a first class in Nigeria, graduates who think javascript codes are spells or mathematics, graduates who think it's right for a military man to slap you for answering a phone call at a military checkpoint. You need a man who values education, but a degree? I'm not sure you know the difference.

HRHQueenPhil:


Thank you, dat is why i cant marry a person with such mentality, u av ur preference and i have mine. this country is in dire need of educated people. the people u are mentioning , many of dem accumulated wealth due to connection with rich people. so mentioning them makes me pity you.

yeyerolling:
which bsc does indimi, ahmed musa or emenike have . Having a bsc doesnt make u a beta or worse person. In the uk (who colonised us) secondary school education is seen as enuf. A female doc can marry a gardner or cleaner. And no fuss wud be made of it. We really have a long way to go in nigeria. Some have bsc they cant speak or write good english. All those expats in julius berger, cappa and d alberto, and those oil workers in PH . most dont have bsc just vocational courses. Smh for nigeria o

johhnnie:


Kindly address issues and not personality.

See, your friend that earn 100k in silicon valley is like earning 30k else where. See, the real manager's of these technicians earn from 350k upwards. I have see investment bankers on the wall street who earn $ 1m plus with good MBAs. A seasoned medical doctor in the US earns around that. Let us assess horizontally and not vertically.

Go and do your research and compare what someone who has just CCNP earns relative to someone who has in addition to CCNP, a B.Sc or an NBA.
This is the knowledge age and schools are set up and funded for a reason.

The annual budget of certain schools abroad is much more than the entirety on Nigeria's budget for 3 years. Those countries are not fools.

Thank You!

BluntBoy:


Having a degree does not mean you will reason alike. I know of a PhD holder who would rather his wife learnt a trade when she obviously wanted to get an MSc.

From some of the comments on this thread, I have deduced one thing: many people can't separate education from degrees. Do you know there are people who buy degrees? What if you fell into the hands of a man whose degree is not worth more than the paper it is printed on.

After serving my country, I got work in a hotel owned by an Alhaji. This Alhaji has nothing other than a primary 6 certificate but you need to see how much he values degrees. His children are schooling in the United States and he never tires about telling me how he regrets not "going to school". When I told him he could still go to school, he told me he was no longer interested but he would make sure his children get the best education. His wife recently got admitted to a part time program.

Esepayan:


you are really enlightened i have been living outside Nigeria for years and i try to keep in touch with naija here i am really amazed how backward they tend to think its really sad

yeyerolling:
which bsc does indimi, ahmed musa or emenike have . Having a bsc doesnt make u a beta or worse person. In the uk (who colonised us) secondary school education is seen as enuf. A female doc can marry a gardner or cleaner. And no fuss wud be made of it. We really have a long way to go in nigeria. Some have bsc they cant speak or write good english. All those expats in julius berger, cappa and d alberto, and those oil workers in PH . most dont have bsc just vocational courses. Smh for nigeria o

Dasherz:
I can .. so far he's not a dumbo ... a degree doesn't make you enlightened ... you choose to be enlightened in the mind degree or none

cupidhero:
I might not know anything about girls but i know say the ones wey owu dey blow no get much choice...as long as you can provide COMFORT this girls will marrry you. Just get your stacks up. See as all this small girls dey lie. na wa.

jelel6:


Hey bro, it is applicable. the fact that you don't have any reason or be in a position to apply it doesn't mean someone somewhere isn't applying it.

sykah:
the last I checked, Bill Gates doesn't have a certificate and he is the riches man in the world. And believe when I say, all those who claim to be intellectually grounded in their field of study wouldn't be able to have a simple conversation with him because only then will they realise that the philosophies they quote where all said/written by lay men

MaritzaNL:
These folks you are calling up and down are in a civilized society, they are in developed country where they learn worthy skills without a degree and are very fluent in English, the non degree holders here mostly can't even make a correct sentence, most of them. So I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I will keep correcting someone's grammatical errors and blunders, thereby making me feel embarrassed and ruining my image which means a lot to me. Also why I said our thinking level won't be the same is because most of these non-degree holders perceive you as acting or feeling big because you have a degree and they don't, I don't know if you are getting my point, you can't give him your opinion or advice as a husband without him saying "Is it because I didn't go to school" or reminding you of him not being a graduate, there is this inferiority complex they carry around , I'm not cut out for that shiit.

Also I never made mention of one having a degree will make him automatically smart, going to school or being in school is a guide not really what makes you smart.

MaritzaNL:
No, make no mistake, I don't see them as inferior but I just know that his thinking level and mine won't be the same.

pocohantas:
NO. Not just having the degree, but being grounded in his field...academically.

Please, nobody should come here to form holier than thou and smh for Nigerians. We all have something that attracts us to the opposite sex, love isn't blind after all. That's why some guys won't marry that hardworking girl selling fish in the market, you'll prefer the hardworking banker.

For some, it's religious inclination, some educational, physical, financial, cultural...etc. It doesn't make you better than them, you also saw something in your own partner that they probably won't care about, because it's not something that ticks the box for them.

Except you can marry that uneducated, timid, disabled [I mean no offence to this group], and not too good looking male/female, don't just try to form better than others.

We all have our choices, If you're not condescending about it...no probz.

MaritzaNL:
These folks you are calling up and down are in a civilized society, they are in developed country where they learn worthy skills without a degree and are very fluent in English, the non degree holders here mostly can't even make a correct sentence, most of them. So I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I will keep correcting someone's grammatical errors and blunders, thereby making me feel embarrassed and ruining my image which means a lot to me. Also why I said our thinking level won't be the same is because most of these non-degree holders perceive you as acting or feeling big because you have a degree and they don't, I don't know if you are getting my point, you can't give him your opinion or advice as a husband without him saying "Is it because I didn't go to school" or reminding you of him not being a graduate, there is this inferiority complex they carry around , I'm not cut out for that shiit.

Also I never made mention of one having a degree will make him automatically smart, going to school or being in school is a guide not really what makes you smart.

YelloweWest:

Have u checked the quality of their marriage regarding being married to an educated woman?
It's not all about money o in marriage.

You want to be able to reason with your partner on certain key issues... when one is educated formally and the other is not, hmmm big wahala dey be that!

Dasherz:
I can .. so far he's not a dumbo ... a degree doesn't make you enlightened ... you choose to be enlightened in the mind degree or none

musa7m:
MaritzaNL HRHQueenPhil...QueenSekxy and the rest you people need to change environment once in a while



May una no worry at all....na degree holder..una dey look for abi?

By the time you reach 40 years for your father house...mr right with degree no show......na that time una go know say to fine husband no be ABC