Sunday, December 4, 2011

Education

Hi everyone.
I hope you are all okay, well rested and ready for the week.
For me I am and happy for various reasons.
Before I forget: " A big shout out to my new followers thank you so much for making secret lilies your home, and for the comments I love them.
Thank you.

I have been thinking about our educational system for a while now:
Men!!!! we have a long way to go.
I joined a friend to the art institute in Atlanta, and I was shocked at what I saw. This school is a school that's focused more on hands-on than book work/ reading. They do the general courses which is mandatory for every higher institution but they focus more on practicals than theory.

It got me thinking a lot of my mates, friends, parents, Nigerians, do not know what they actually want to be when they grow up. We almost all go into the university studying courses to please our parents or because society.

I have always said this if I have a university I will not offer courses like law, medicine, engineering etc. I will not have the traditional school. I will have courses like cartooning, game creation, interior design, drafting, agriculture, farming, etc.. I will like my students to be able to come to school and get a degree in whatever they want to do, not what their parents want

In Nigeria we look down on polytechnics or yaba tech, etc cos they aren't the traditional universities?
Even when the state governments or organizations offer scholarships to students, they offer the traditional courses. So if I am in the Arts I can only get a scholarship to study LAW nothing creative. Science: engineering etc and Medicine...

I have a friend who loves making-people up, but she will not go to a cosmetology school because her father will not pay her fees, so she is stuck with one science course and hoping that one day she will be able to fulfill her dream..

I pray and I wish that we will all fulfill our dreams.
At that school yesterday I felt like going to enroll and start all over again, this time spending 4 years doing what I like not what my parents want or what society feels is accepted..

I wish and I hope that we will all fulfill our dreams cos this life is short.

Do take care of yourself and have a lovely week ahead.

P.S. A big thank you to Atilola. She gave me some very good points for my book. I am sure I will dedicate the book to her when it is eventually finished and published.

7 comments:

  1. I have always admired the way that people in polytechnics are taught. It is pretty much hands on. And to imagine that this is even after we all agree that the standard of education has fallen. Makes you wonder what it was like back in the day!

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  2. Wow, can I steal this whole blog post? It's excellent.

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  3. 1000000000000000000000000000% on point,My first Uni interview made me realize Africans need to loosen Up a bit,especially the parents. have to friends who also went to college to study Disk Jockeying "DJ" . We sure have a LoooooooooooooooooooooooooNg Way to go.

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  4. @Natural Nigerian very true.
    @T lol u can steal it no problem.
    @DIDI r u for real they went to college to study Disk Jockeying? I will like to meet them in person. I am impressed.

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  5. you're so right. even here, people that go to the polys/colleges make as much as people who went to universities and they even learn much more hands on. I hope things turn around soon

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  6. Too true. i have a friend who spent about 4 years in medical school, another 4 in maths before finally rebelling and going for Arts. It can be very frustrating

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  7. @stelzz u can just imagine.
    @Toinlicious r u serious. wow thank God she finally did rebelled. But men she wasted a lot of years.

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