WHAT MANNER OF EDUCATION
Hi, this post is the continuation of what i started yesterday if you have not read it, you need to quickly rush there and read.So also i didn't give yesterday thought any title,todays title is for the two. Enjoy:
Sometime ago the raging issue was a dress code for students of schools of higher learning, then I asked should we not be ashamed that we have stooped this low, what happened to days when the fear of a teacher was wisdom. The fear of a teacher was enough for a student to know he/she needs to dress decently. Now to hell with the Vice Chancellor, after all he who goes to equity must go with clean hands..
We cannot guarantee any form of free education, most Governors have turned state bursary allocations into political tools, that is when it is not intelligently and crookedly sent to England to buy a mansion in cash. Government at the center is confused, one minute it is 6-3-3-4 system, now we hear it would be 9-3-4, only Allah knows if the next one won’t be 16-16-16. Till this moment no one has explained the rational behind the change, the merits or otherwise why we had to abandon the last system which was barely practiced for a decade plus. A nation that jokes with the education of its youth nay its citizen would have itself to blame not just in the future but even now it suffers it.
Teachers...crave my indulgence some months back in Nigeria, yes our Nigeria, our beloved naija parents made their kids sit for the yearly GCE exams and to imagine that the parents in question needed the result to register with the Teachers' Institute. One wonders what direction our insanity is heading towards. Teachers no longer teach, they no longer reach out to their wards, not that one blames them, with a President that has never hidden his disdain for teachers and education we cannot expect better.
At the just concluded National Council on Education meeting the Minister For Education, Mrs Oby, came out smoking but then give her and this government some time the smoke will die down to a point you hardly will notice the ashes, all she had to say was on the indiscrimatory award of honourary doctorate degrees, to this I wonder what she was talking about, the problem besetting the educational sector has gone beyond the award of degrees, there is a Governor, at the last count has 13 all from Nigerian Universities, so my Sister Oby, leave that one. Before Oby, was the post -JAMB woman, how did she end. Already I hear there is a power tussle between the current Minster and the Senate committee chairwoman Joy Emordi, while our education is on fire, those concerned with salvaging what is left are engaged in personality clashes.
In my daily routine with Newspapers I am beseeched with adverts for schools offering better education, from Cyprus to Singapore to Jamaica and no one bothers about the number of parents and students seeking alternate education.
Why do we like to lie to ourselves...I never will know, I can tell you that in some states of the federation by random sampling no public school has a functional up to date complete computer unit with Printer and Governors will tell you how they have transversed from Galilee to Riyadh in improving education and the government at the center is preaching info-tech.
The school feeding programme has stopped were it started because it was more political than not. Again we are pursuing a dumb, deaf and blind policy of free education tagged UBE, what happened to UPE, nothing other than failure of policy and it is already happening to the UBE reform. The Government does not have the manpower to cater for the children that are going to start the programme, some states are not even prepared, so we are going to employ crash teachers to teach crash pupils that will crash retrogressively till they crash land with empty heads.
I intend to establish a primary school right in my car garage because I love kids, no, because its good business, just imagine I have 200 children and they pay only 10 thousand Naira and I have five teachers who have no qualification whatsoever, the only basic requirement is we are of the same faith or tribe, what else does one need to tell you that business is good. What the kids are taught is secondary and off course they go on a lot of excursions which the parents pay for. This in summary is the typical run of the mill private nursery and primary school and we looked at these kids and called them future leaders, I can say that tomorrow, certainly is bleak, if we don't make a change.
I have blamed government, teachers, but sadly the worst culprit in falling standards of education remains our parents whose values have also taken a deep, the days when parents insisted that their wards passed with good grades to move to the next class has been substituted to an era that this same parents now buy question papers ahead of the exams, bribe examiners, make sure the kids study courses they lack interest and lack the required basics, and then we turn around to blame government is double hypocrisy and crying wolf where there are no rats.

Parents do not even know what their wards are doing in school; “let me see your homework” is now a strange phrase in families. Who really cares, the Ibos to Alaba in droves, and our Yoruba brothers to the mechanic workshop and how about hausas in the North, its worse because the leaders are fighting for a center. These are no apprentice by calling but because of lack of choice. An uneducated populace is one of the recipes for catrostrophic socio-eco-political, cultural and steady future, a nation where anything will always go. We need to go back to the All-Wise One, or else, this terrible reality will go a stage beyond repair. We need to wake up, but like i said in the begining, all hope is not lost.There is a new generation coming up in this country, you don't need to look far before you see one, they are very passionate about this country, they are the take over generation ready to make all the necessary change . Nigeria is waiting for you and me to make a change, wake up my people and rescue our country from the hands of this crooks that call themselves leaders.
LONG LIFE NIGERIA!
SHORT ALL THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS!!