The Wall the School Confines
THE WALLS THE SCHOOL CONFINES BY ADEYEMO PRAISE ADEOLU Record has it that when I was in kindergarten, pre-school, nursery and junior high, my teachers would always come to class then and teach lots of “important” stuff to us. Brilliant! But I do not think my dad ever uses his quadratic equations and several theorems he had learnt in sustaining the family. This is just an eye opener. We go to school to learn what the syllabus has to offer, we do not learn what we need do to give back to the society. And that is the unfortunate situation our educational system subjects us to. So many a great graduates are turned out everywhere into the saturated economic market and have no clue as to how to survive. Common sense! They do not know how to, simply because they are clueless. This piece was birthed in a very boring class on a fateful Monday afternoon. And I asked myself how the knowledge of what I was being taught would lead me straight to hitting the jackpot. Don’t get it twisted, many wo