₦airaland Forum

Kobicove:
Nothing happened to Peace Hyde...the naughty guy is just imagining what he would like to 'do' to her in za oza room

janellemonae:
What happened to her?

UbanmeUdie:
It is alright to have an opinion but it is insane to have a stupid one.

Benita27:
Op, you're right on the aforementioned, but these are the superficial. If you scratch a little deeper; psychological maturity is what I look out for in these set of guys...how he behaves, his reaction in certain situations, and general mindset. Can't deal with an overgrown kid.

ArchangeLucifer:
You left out Satanists.

That's an affront.

gbzed:
Self employed sure pass.

But not everybody can b self employed cos who will do the work?

omoelerin1:
I want to believe you are not a half-baked but a fully- baked, then what are you doing? Where is your innovation? where is your contribution? Who tells you that those guru in technology are professors/first class grad? Did you know majority of them are drop-outs? Are those Arab project managers professors or graduates?

ToZaraWithaZ:
Rapmoney, nice write-up. You spoke the plain truth, and I agree with you.

The MAIN problem is that ordinary schools, especially the ones in Africa, are designed to churn out people who can read and write, haven't set their ambitions too high, and will be able to fit into the working world where they will carry out a menial and bureaucratic function for average pay.

There are so many people with astonishing potentials, but have had them killed because of the education system. One of the worst mistakes the state can make is to shovel all children, no matter their differences, into "one size fits all" schools where they get a standardised curriculum that is never tailored to any child's particular needs and talents. If you provided everyone on earth with a one-size-fits-all set of clothes, most would look terrible, while, for a lucky few, they would be a perfect fit. So, it is with education. For a few, the education system is just right - for everyone else it's a lesser or greater disaster.

The students with the best grades are often not the most intelligent ones, but the ones with the best short-time memory or best at rote, robotic learning. After an exam, they usually forget most of the material.

That's why, like you said, it's the outsiders, the non-conformists, the freethinkers, the rebels and heretics who find the system nauseating, that tend to create anything worthwhile.

Education ought to be about discovering what children are good at, and what they're not. If you teach mathematics to a person who has no mathematical aptitude, you will shatter their confidence and self-esteem. Don't keep making people do things for which they have no glimmer of talent. It's pointless, counter-productive and psychologically damaging, and in the end, their real talent remains undiscovered and unexplored.

ivolt:
@Rapmoney, this is a very good question.

The answer lies in Nigeria's priority.
As you know that scientific development is largely dependent on money
We don't have enough money for food and health(allegedly), so R& is
relegated to the back room.

What is even surprising is the mindset of many Nigerians even the learned
ones, I can see some posters already blaming Britain for the problem we face
when the same britain colonised singapore, malaysia and South Africa, yet
some seemingly literate people think that britain hid the
"true education" from Nigerians.

Until our schools start encouraging thinking instead of linguists-only and the
government stop mismanagement, the first class and professors will
continue to do what their predecessors are doing, collecting salaries and
getting by while blame continues to be passed around.

oluwamitomisin:
OP and commenters in support of him/her, all I could read here is some form of hatred for a particular set of people- first class holders and professors.

Mind that you are a graduate of whatever class you got from the higher institution also, and the burden is on all to improve our society at large. Stop being inferior!!!

I wish I have more time to reply y'all.

Nukilia:
@Desyner is not correct with the abusive words used on HND graduates. We have smart guys who have HND and are doing great. I guess the problem is with the idea of everyone trying to get a certificate and they don't know what to use the knowledge acquired for in the society.

When an Engineer becomes a comdeian and people hail him because he/she is making money, then you know there's problem with the system.

When a biochemistry graduate start making money from frying "Akara" then his pastor will tell him that frying "Akara" is his calling.

We have lots of problem in this our country, and all will be solved the day our universities and polytechnics review their curriculum and get enough funding for research and direct application of result to national problem.

Desyner:
What's the use of a brilliant mind that's subject to dull retærded illiterates? You can have a First class and still be under a smelly illiterate with HND because everything is by quota arrangement. Let's restructure the hole.

Phinity318:
of course, I will use ur Nl moniker, I assume.

Phinity318:
Permission to Kofi Alhaji Rapmoney

tosyne2much:
This is very insightful oga Rapmoney

CornelG:
That is the evidence of working with a Man of God especially a product of Daddy G.O #PastAdeboye unlike the likes of Atiku/Namadi and others. My Hero and My Role model @Osinbajo please keep it up Sir!!! More Grace!!!!!