Education in Nigeria is a funny thing, you do well in school and the first thing people say is that you must be an Engineer or a Medical doctor. But the irony is that the people that really run the world, are not Engineers or Medical Doctor’s, they tend to be the politicians and business men, the ones that nobody paid attention to in school, sometimes the drop outs, they end up in charge of everyone and everything. There is really nothing wrong with that, but what if we stopped pigeon-holing the intelligent? What if we stopped forcing intelligent people to be Doctors? What if parents felt as proud of a son with a Political Science degree as one with an Engineering degree? You see you shouldn’t have to be an engineer, doctor or architect to be considered intelligent in school. You don’t need to understand further mathematics either. Sometimes you could just be intelligent in Economics and Political Science and that is okay, but that is rarely the case. Imagine what would happen if we could do that … diversify our intelligent students across various subjects. Maybe we might have smarter politicians, smarter writers … Remember Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie, they both were once pushed into medicine, imagine if they never rebelled and moved into ... continue reading ofilispeaks/funnyintelligence/
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 11:13:55 +0000