burticious:
What's stopping us from teaching the kids right from nursery the three languages

tspun:
thanks for educating them, I can't believed some nairalanders still reason like primary 5 pupils, Taiwan is a small island nation that speak Chinese as there main language, what other language do they expect the diagram to be labeled?

Noaril:
say una see say na Korean him dey use label am... but 4 9ja here, we go carry English for head like dandruff ni

ewebiodun:

That's what we are talking about , accepted norm in contemporary Nigerian society is English as general language. If it changes to pidgin I am more than cool with it. If this was a pidgin forum I wouldn't have had any choice

UbanmeUdie:




If he likes, let him turn his head upside down to draw more of those caricature with eye pencils.

He is definitely not as good as Uncle T the legendary anatomy lecturer at college of medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

BluntBoy:


So, which would you pick as the official language without causing conflict?

burticious:
What official language.. Wetin concern the local people with official language.. The people in the village care about English? They just want to speak their local dialect, those pupils at these local places find it hard to understand teachings in English.. And If you can't understand what they are teaching from that age..it will be hard to meet up

jstriker442:

Pidgin has no structure, its almost useless, we just use it to COMMUNICATE,. Nothing more. Its presently unacceptable.

BluntBoy:


Official language unifies us. How would you teach Biology to a class in a school in Abuja or Lagos? You will use Yoruba? Or would you make three diagrams and label one in Yoruba, one in Igbo and the last in Hausa?

When we say official language, we are talking about the necessity of a unifying language in a formal setting. Nigeria is a multi ethnic state. She needs an official language, at least, for formal interactions.

burticious:
All I'm saying is this all subject can be simplified and explained better in our local language if it can be explain in Chinese and Spanish etc.. Our education system needs to be reformed.. We cant go further as a continent if we refuse to develop with local languages..if you understand something you should be able to explain in your local language

ewebiodun:

I am not a linguist but I believe pidgin can be standardised. The lexicon can be enriched with even borrowed vocabulary. All languages in d world went through a transformational process.
If I may ask, is it same English spoken in d middle ages that is been spoken today or sane Yoruba or Igbo of our grand parents spoken by our generation, even d English of d 1900s is different from d one we speak now.
I would have suggested our local languages but that can't work because we are a multi lingual country.pidgin is the only language universal in Nigeria.

BluntBoy:


Korean language is not just a local language, it is the official and national language of North and South Korea. But here, our official language is English. How will you label a diagram in Yoruba when some of your students are Igbos or Hausas? English is the unifying language in Nigeria.

jstriker442:

Pidgin has no structure, its almost useless, we just use it to COMMUNICATE,. Nothing more. Its presently unacceptable.

BluntBoy:


Are you trying to say that schools in Yorubaland should teach in Yoruba; schools in Igboland should teach in Igbo and schools in Hausaland should teach in Hausa?

SmallSimba:

Excuses excuse Excuses. Finalnd has got only 5.4% of its population as Swedes and yet Swedish is used as a medium of instruction up to University level. Why can't you start by adding another language to english? Start with elementary school, then secondary school then state universities and technique.

UbanmeUdie:




If he likes, let him turn his head upside down to draw more of those caricature with eye pencils.

He is definitely not as good as Uncle T the legendary anatomy lecturer at college of medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

burticious:
All I'm saying is this all subject can be simplified and explained better in our local language if it can be explain in Chinese and Spanish etc.. Our education system needs to be reformed.. We cant go further as a continent if we refuse to develop with local languages..if you understand something you should be able to explain in your local language

UbanmeUdie:




If he likes, let him turn his head upside down to draw more of those caricature with eye pencils.

He is definitely not as good as Uncle T the legendary anatomy lecturer at college of medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

SmallSimba:


Yes. Its called schools in the catchment area. Those who don't want, can go to private schools which will teach in English. A few schools schools should pursue Bilingualism. What is going now in Kenya and Nigeria (I'm Kenyan) is one of the reasons for underdevelopment.

SmallSimba:


This is a very ignorant statement. How can you have a language without structure? And what is teaching except COMMUNICATION? Would you say Chinese has structure?

Yesterday i go to work. Today I go to work. Tomorrow I go to work. Inferior, enslaved minds.

SmallSimba:


You are talking to people who can't grasp a very basic concept. Iceland has a population of 350,000 people - that's less than the number of teachers in Nigeria. They use Icelandic from pre-primary to university level. The people are just giving excuses because they think that Education must be in English.

ewebiodun:
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All these is just bout protecting and buying our very OWN bah. In as much as i might oblige to your assertions, i'd say ts not our probs now. Maybe we can consider it later.
Sorry I keep coming back. But u must please understand that the failure of our educational system is one of the very major root causes of the lacuna we are in as a country.
U can't build a country without an educated populace. Even majority of the supposed educated Nigerians are either undereducated or highly miseducated. That is why things are this bad in our country.
We need to effectively tackle the challenge of our very inefficient educational system by effectively getting all our citizens educated by further simplifying the process and instructional content.
Sorry once again for taking ur time

jstriker442:

No need to be sorry frnd, we learn from healthy discussions.
You should know by now that our problem is not language based. Tribe i'd agree to, but not language. Education is communication, communication is understanding.
Pidgin cud actually make us understand better, but it will not solve our problems. It will even create more of ts own in the long run.

Even the native english speakers do make mistakes u knw. But that doesnt limit their thinking.

ewebiodun:

Really nice post. "education is communication, communication is understanding". I would say education is knowledge, knowledge is power. How can u explain to an illiterate that it is possible for man to go to the moon and even live there if not by building his knowledge through formal education. You have enlightened him and he is no longer ignorant, he begins to seecd world different from is myopic mindset.
The reason I believe u r less if a problem to the betterment of Nigeria is cos u r formally educated.
The fastest way to equip every Nigerian for development of the country is by simplifying education.