I feel as a sense of duty
to continue this weekend's write-up from whence we last bid goodbye. If you
have been following all along, you will allude to the fact that we had earlier
addressed some life's social challenges. You should recall that we categorized
the term life into seven different parts and
today, we shall be looking at the educational aspect of life; what it entails,
the threats associated with it and some solutions proferred towards overcoming threatening situations..
The oxford dictionaires
defines education to be ''The process of receiving or giving systematic
instruction, especially at a school or university: a course of education''. In another vein, it defines education as the ''information about or training in a particular
subject''. Need I inform or remind us that education is divided into two
catgeorizes, namely; formal and informal education? While formal education
takes place in the classrooms, informal education usually take place outside of
classrooms such as libraries, after-school programs, museums, at home, and so
on.
The
challenges that betides one educationally are either external or internally
induced. Some external factors as you may be aware includes: lack of
sponsorship or inadequate financing, inadequate/ lack of access to educational
facilities, lack of supply of basic educational ammenties/ equippments,
untrained/ unqualified teachers/ personnels, lack/ inadequate enabling laws,
neglegncy/ failure/ inadequacies of the regulation authorities, unstable homes,
ineffective parenting, exposure to so many distractions such the internet,
television, games, telephone and technologies of other kinds etc.
From my personal
experience, I have come to identify some internal induced challenges to the
acquiring of the needed education as follows; lack of exposure to the needful
information, lack of self awareness of ones ability and capcity, inability to
create a quality study time schedule, or lack of adherences to it. Another
factor is, lack of the desired motivation to study, bad companionships, truancy
issues, no educational role model (where necessary), no set goals, no dreams,
no visons, no aspirations and so on.
Haven said that, we need
to be careful as to whats we grasps also, since as too much of everything is
not good . Some persons know too much of what isn't needed and which of course
cannot be helpful to them. The other side of the coin is that no education
gained is a waste, In any case, the role of education whether formal or
information is vital and cannot by any chance be underemphaized, It is said
that when you give a child a fish, it can come begging for more. But when you
teach the same child how to fish, you have given him a skill for life. A good
education is better than money, because education can teach one how to make
money. Hence,''the only person who is educated is the one who has learned how
to learn and change ''says Carl Rogers a renowned humanistic psychologists. I
have always said that 'life is a school, we keep learning till we die'.
Hence, I feel very
particular about internal induced deficiencies towards the acquiring basic
education and as having to excell in it as there is no height that one cannot
attain, only if he belief that he can make it (edcuationally). I do not believe
that anybody can be responsible for your failures but you, because in the first
place, you allowed them to take possession of your life. Nothing is responsible
for your failures either, where if you gave it a chance to take possession of
you.
Be that as it may, take
charge. It is possible, We all may have different Intelligent Quotients (IQ),
yet it is not everybody that make use of what gift or talent that has been
given him. The entire human race is awaiting our manifestations, innovations,
inventions and solutions, something that comes as a result of knowing what
other never knew, and decided to act upon it where they failed. and such
opportunity can real good be facilitated by a quality education.
As I come to a close. I
shall leave you with a rhethorical question which is; educationally speaking,
HOW FAR BEHIND ARE YOU?
From: HENRY CHIKE OKONKWO.
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