₦airaland Forum

I think the op is right to an extent but saying this kids are lazy is just unnecessary generalisation because its not necessarily true


I remember during my teaching practise, the school didn't have any social clubs like the debate and the press e.t.c they didn't even have a library and were in their classrooms almost all throughout the day and it was we the student teachers that introduced this things to the school and the number of students we had applying for the debate society shocked us, they said the principal barely gave them time for such and all their teachers cared about was giving them books upon books to read without really allowing them opportunities to express themselves, you also find out that such traits are carried over to the universities

As an English Language undergraduate, we had to read sometimes 10 novels "per course" in one semester sometimes and during exams a lecturer asks you, "In two lines, summarise the novel" and that's it mind you this might be a 200 to 400 page novel and one would barely get an A in such a course, now tell me why i would want to "kill" myself the following semester to read any novel when i know most of the lecturers only want you to in 5minutes summarise what you read......The system is just messed up, most lecturers set exams for students to "pass" and not the other way round, in my opinion even though we can agree that the reading culture has fallen, current economic situations don't really help matters too


And as much as we want to blame parents for this very ugly trend, the govt also has to take a chunk of the blame, i remember my love for English Language started so early because i had some of the most devoted teachers back then especially in primary school, today though you would hardly find such, teachers are paid peanuts monthly compared to other professions and in my opinion, i don't see why a doctor should earn so much more than a teacher that's just the truth, a lot of teachers are underpaid which in turn affects their output to the children that's why they stuff these kids with so much assignments because they'd rather do that than waste so much time and energy explaining stuff and in the end get paid 30k at the end of the month now that's just disgusting


I don't totally agree that the reading culture of our generation is that bad but it boils down to all sorts of factors


And sidenote a lot of these folks(the older generation) screaming on this thread about how bad the reading culture is now and how easy it was in the past are also a major part of the reason why the reading culture is what it is now