Frankly, many individuals on their path fail to be “visionaries,” or persons who can see the future and prepare for it appropriately. Reality in this context refers to concern for fact of being actual, real and rejection of the impractical and visionary especially in the education sector while fantasy is something seen but having no physical reality, emanating from one’s imagination; a phantom or apparition still in the education sector. It is terrible to realize that education has failed to represent what it should reflect. As such, this treatise will discuss the problem with the Nigerian education system, how it affects us and the aftermath of its effect on the learned individuals.
First off, life has taught us so much while we were growing up. Schooling is intended to expose one to numerous realities of life, but the academic curriculum has only catered for a handful of things it should accomplish for us. Schooling should be our priority but we ought to have an alternative. We should not stay deafened to what we hear and blinded to what we see. If life has failed to teach us these fundamental truths, should schooling even refuse to provide us with this chance, where we have spent essentially our whole lives depending on it. At Lagos State University (LASU), there are a group of students dubbed stream two students; they are being offered an entrepreneurship course alongside their bachelor’s degrees. It is high time we began to wake up to the idea that we must plan considering the points that will be covered following the discussion here.
Most importantly, while you keep fighting to thrive academically, you’ve got to wake up to the factual knowledge that schooling has got nothing to do with what life may or may not provide you at the end of the day. As a consequence, while in school, you must have the ability to back up your degree in this 21st century. Everyone has got his/her fate in his/her hand. You are your moulder, and you may mould it to any form and status of your choice. Your panurgy should get you a penny.
Also, many graduates have decided to opt for the “japa syndrome” (the act of fleeing from the nation) as a remedy to poverty, which is obvious in the faces of both the young and old. The imbroglio of poverty has been one of many to be tackled in a growing nation such as Nigeria. It is helpful to know that anything a bird consumes will help it fly. The heart of the situation is that there is no such spot that should be considered fruitful or infertile since there is always a plant appropriate for every terrain. What is germane is the insight into the land you want to plant on. It is excellent information that may birth a brilliant idea, not the inaccurate knowledge taught by the school in the revised form most times. With a touch of the practical world, a bit of it gives answers to a life issue.
Lastly, get a feel of the outside of the four walls of the classroom! “E get why!” There are laws to transgress, some of which represent questions that the school would not address or have an effect on since it has a defined curriculum that must be followed. These are questions that life will ask you, and you must provide wonderful replies.
Omotosho Funmilayo Temitope is a 200 level student of the department of English Education, Lagos State University (LASU).
