Saturday, May 2, 2020

Ill-literacy (unProductivity)

Few days ago a friend introduced me to a website that offers free online courses. While he was going through it, I saw him skipping courses so he could get to the examination session. I saw it and I laughed.
Several people are jumping into websites to take free courses that have absolutely no connection with their purpose, career, or what they love. Just to obtain certificate

Our so called civilized generation has turned out to become a 'C.V-lies' generation; our CVs more often tell lots of lies.

Our educational system is tailored to prepare man for a future that does not exist.

A case were people spend years in school just for the sake of acquiring certificate. Therefore they read to pass exam and not to be productive.

We live in a blind generation were almost everyone thinks they're heading the right way.
Your Education is incomplete if you lack the ability to see the unseen
People pass through school and come out with good grades not knowing how to ignite their creativity.

It is a slap on our intellectual dignity that Nigeria still imports little things like handkerchief, toothpicks, etc.

We must refrain from seeing school as activity to enhance our ability to make money. Schools are  rather design to enhance ability to create solutions. To create answers and not to answer questions.

Ignorance is a monster of two lives: the Visible and the Invisible life.
The visible life of ignorance is Illiteracy while the invisible life of ignorance is 'ill-literacy'.
Illiteracy is conquered at the point of acquiring knowledge, but 'ill-literacy' is conquered at the point of knowledge acquiring man. In other words illiteracy is the inability to communicate with the world
But ill-literacy is the inability to be productive, to create and contribute to the world.

The best an African First Class graduates and professor can do is 'paper presentations' and 'policy formations'. No surprise most of them serve as special advisers rather than 'special inventors'.

Don't just acquire knowledge, be a creative thinker.
If we cannot improve on the inventions of our fathers, then we are not educated, we are simply decorated.

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