A call to companies and organizations to help in the development of education from the grassroots. We need the days of JETS, DEBATE ,QUIZ competitions and the likes again else our educational system is in dire distress I read this disturbing yet noteworthy piece somewhere and I trust to share it using this medium: Dear Nigerians, the reasons for mass failure of our teenagers in public exams are not far fetched. 1 FACEBOOK,YAHOO,TWITTER,MYSPACE and generally browsing on the internet instead of reading their books 2 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE and EUROPEAN FOOTBALL LEAGUES, it is easy for an average Nigerian teenager to know the the names of all Chelsea players but same youths cannot tell you the square root 25 in mathematics. Worse still is that these days instead of seeing inscriptions like UNIVERSITY or SCHOLARS on the exercise books, what you see are pictures of Paloma,Drogba,Beyonce,Wiz kids etc 3 DSTV,Home video and African movie magic, watching television and films endlessly.European champions league,English premiership, Spanish league etc 4 GSM and BLACKBERRY, the average Nigerian teenager uses the latest and expensive gsm phones just to show off that they belong, when they are actually nothing. 5 GSM TEXT LANGUAGE, I will not be surprised to see students write words like Ur(for YOUR), 2moro( For tomorrow) in their EXAM sheets 6 QUEST FOR CHEAP FAME AND WEALTH, The government,electronic media(Television and radio) and companies have not been helpful at all. The average Nigerian youth especially the girls want to BE silver Birds most beautiful Girl and get cheap money and fame(Nobody has remembered all the previous miss world,but we still remember MOTHER THERESA),they want to win IDOLS WEST AFRICA, they want to be in NOLLY WOOD, they want to be TWO-FACE, they want to win Maltina street dance ,they want to win star quest and GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH Warning is that wealth gotten by vanity shall DIMINISH. 7 The new craze of TALENT SHOWS: Suddenly The only talents our youths now have are music,dancing,acting and stand up comedies, they no longer have talents for maths,physics and entrepreneurship. Check out the list:MTN PROJECT FAME,BIG BROTHER,STARQUEST,MALTINA DANCE ALL,AMBO,GUILDER,IDOLS WEST AFRICA,PEAK TALENT HUNT ETC…What a bad distraction It is only COWBELL that sponsors national mathematics competition and give scholarships to outstanding students in exams. A call to companies and organizations to help in the development of education from the grassroots. We need the days of JETS, DEBATE ,QUIZ competitions and the likes again else our educational system is in dire distress I read this disturbing yet noteworthy piece somewhere and I trust to share it using this medium:
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:47:56 +0000
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