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Here are the question and my answers
WRITE AN ARTICLE SUITABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN YOUR SCHOOL MAGAZINE ON WAYS OF IMPROVING READING CULTURE AMONG STUDENT.
MY ANSWER
Recent findings have revealed that students have lost the culture of reading. The reading culture among youths has been said to have waned away. This is unfortunate. In fact, the rate by which, Nigeria recorded failure by Nigerian students in the West African Examination Council WAEC, and National Examination Commission NECO including, other examinations taken in Nigeria is quite glaring that this is true.
My first suggestion on how to go about improving the reading culture among students will be to organize trainings for youths and workshops for students.
There should be series of such training programs for young people in the country on reading culture, and course of study counseling, and Parents Teachers training, including, child development workshops across the country.
For instance, government and corporate organizations and non-governmental organizations should volunteer in hosting students of public secondary schools and students of private secondary schools across Nigeria, for instance, all for the purpose of enlightening the students on the important of imbibing the culture of reading, because this approach will help make these students brilliant and best brains, and subsequently make them responsible citizens in the future, that will contribute outstandingly to nation building.
Another way that I think will improve and promote reading culture in among students will be in the area of students’ debate and students assay competition.
I must tell you that this is one of the key factors that will actually help in achieving an improvement in the area of reading culture among youths and students.
Therefore, there is need to organize inter school debate competition and inter school essay writing competition for both students in public secondary schools and students in private secondary schools across the country.
While organizing for these student competitions, prizes must be given to the best performing students in the competitions, as well as the participating schools.
This gesture will encourage Nigerian students, as well as, their teachers to put more efforts, so that they can stand a chance of winning the prizes next time there is such competition. By so doing, there is all indications that, the reading culture among students will improve.
Again, if free books can be donated to pupils and students in both private primary and secondary schools, as well as public primary and secondary schools it will contribute towards improving reading culture in among students.
That is why it is important and necessary for Nigerian government and other government agencies, including, non-governmental organizations and corporate organizations to take upon themselves the running of campaign programs, where free books can be donated to students in both private primary and secondary schools and public primary and secondary schools.
Good enough, some students particularly, those ones in private schools are privileged to study in environments that have well equipped modern library facilities with books that even promotes reading culture and promote research but unfortunately, students have been carried away by those set of things that do not add value for their studies, for example, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and Twitter, as well as, other social media platforms which have distracts them from studying.
In fact, some of those students, whose parents are wealthy and influential believed that, with their parents wealth disposition, they will sort their way out.
These behaviours and attitudes on the part of students should be discouraged, and they should be redirected to path of being book friendly, as well as imbibing the culture of reading.
Examination malpractice has remained one of the evils that have bewitched Nigerian students, to the extent that, the students have lost the culture of reading, let alone to read and prepare for examination.
In my opinion, I will be suggesting that, there should be campaign and advocacy against examination malpractices. This platform can also serve as a forum, where issues concerning the role of stakeholders in investing their time and resources and energy towards eradicating examination malpractices in Nigeria can be discussed.
It could also serve as platform, where members of the public can be sensitized on how they can collectively work to assist in complimenting the efforts of the government in eradicating examination malpractices in Nigeria, and promote reading culture.
There is need therefore, for Nigerian government to rise up and be committed in making sure that it promote better education philosophy in the country and as well, restore reading culture for the purpose of eradicating the problem of examination malpractices in Nigerian schools.
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You are a chief speaker in a debate on the topic: our forefathers upheld our cultural values more than this generation. Write your argument for or against the motion.
MY MOTION
Good day ladies and gentlemen panel of judges, accurate time keeper and my co-debtors.
My name is David and I want to support the motion which states that our forefathers upheld our cultural values more than this generations.
With this following points of mine.
I would like to start with the definition cultural value, what is cultural value? These are the core principals and ideals upon which an entire community exists and protect and rely upon for existence and harmonious relationship. From the above definition of cultural value I will buttress my points. Let me focus on the cultural arts which are part and panel of the cultural values. Our forefathers usually give maximum respect to arts belonging to their culture, they value these arts and cherish them with all their being because they feel it is a part of their culture. This generation, also known as the computer age pay utmost disrespect to cultural arts, instead they focus on the arts on social media and arts of other countries, they revere arts from countries that are not theirs, arts that are not of their culture and doom their own cultural arts which is very much unfair to the cultural values of their mother land.
The beliefs of a particular community is also part of the cultural values of that community for example, the Indians believe that the women must pay the man's groom price, while in Nigeria we believe that the man must pay the bride price. This generation has come to practice less of these cultural beliefs. But those days our forefathers dare go against beliefs, they worship and respect it to their grave. But I can bet you that in the nearest future, the only beliefs that would exist would be personal belief. When it comes to music, cultural songs have gone totally extinct with the help of this generation. Those days, our forefathers cherished cultural songs,they derived in explicable pleasure and fun from cultural songs. But the new age people are not interested in cultural songs anymore. They are not interested in cultural rythms, instead they have clouded cultural songs with what we now know as circular songs. In traditional weddings and ceremonies, instead of playing cultural songs, they play circular songs instead because it is what people now love. Language is a cultural value but these generation prefer speaking other people's language than their dialect. Our forefathers use to adore their languages like a demi god. They use it all the time without shame, but these generation some are ultimately ashamed of using their dialect in public, they feel embarrassed and by so doing these language are not known to many people out there. I have numerous point to defend my opinion but I hope with these few points of mine, am able to convince you that our forefathers upheld our cultural value more than this generation.
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