School Ain’t Scam – You Just Expect too much

This slang “las las school na scam” meaning school is scam is a trend that is in the mouths and hearts of a lot of youths in my country Nigeria; discouraging education which is known to be the light in the dark which is needed for growth and development of a particular country or state. It is worrisome that the teens a are becoming laxed and not putting as much efforts as they should in school and using this trend and other reasons some of which I’ll share later in this article as an excuse.

What is ironic is that the people who are actually promoting this trend using their songs or social media platform are actually graduates with good results yet allowing many others not to go through the process that they have passed through. This is also an excuse for people too as they’d say ‘if a man who almost drowned on a river tells you that it is deep, you do not have to do same thing in order to discover what has already been discovered’

What are the major reasons why people think school is scam?

There are lots of graduates that are jobless: This is true in Nigeria. There are many of graduates that are unemployed and idle and as we know the idle mind is the devils workshop so a lot of graduates have ventured into bad acts like scamming, armed robbery and many others with the excuse to make end’s meet but how is all of these the university’s fault? A university is a learning hub where people from different walks of life come to gain knowledge to ___. That dash is not an error but it is actually a big problem that we are having in this part of the world. ‘The Why’ the reason behind knowledge is one of the causative factors that is making people jobless and idle. Normally, we gain knowledge to apply it and provide solutions and that’s why you see a Chinese boy of 10 creating wall sockets and many other inventions; exporting it and generating money but in here ‘we gain knowledge to get a job and not just any job but a white collar job with a huge office and a nice pay’. This is the stereotype that a huge chunk of Nigerian youths go into the university with. You now see them cramming just to have a good results that a company cannot refuse and when they get pass that level, they totally forget what they’ve learnt cause as we know cramming does not stay in the head for a long time instead of allowing the knowledge impact them have an open mind to see what can be created or what solution can be provided with what they’ve received. They do all of these things without realizing that the real result is not the grades on the papered certificate they receive but what is being created or acquired with the knowledge they’ve gotten. The time they get to realize this is when they’ve been idle to three years, life has dealt them a bitter lesson you’ll now hear them say ‘ah its not about the certificate or school o’ and those who do not understand will say ‘school na scam jor’

People who studied a particular field end up practicing/working in another field: This is also true and its in two ways. First, I’ve seen couple of lawyers working in a bank. You now ask what is the correlation? Rumor has it that those half baked lawyers cause they’re not fully lawyers yet(you’ll know why at the end of the end of the sentence) that could not pass Law School exam which is a criteria to be fully called to the Bar as a full lawyer by the body of benches or so as they call it so they’ve got sort after other alternative. The second way is that maybe while studying a particular course, one now fell in love with another thing entirely different and they go for it. I fall into this category too. I’m actually studying to be a doctor something that I love but I’ve found more love in technology; programming stuffs, creating solutions and making them work (Doc on steroids my mentor will say). I see venturing into programming more and building a hospital as a consolidation when I graduate.

This school is scam is a ‘eductio ad absurdum fallacy’ that erroneously compares something reasonable argument into an absurd one, by taking former to the extremes.

I’ll advise all my Nigerian students to read this and have a change of mindset so that we’ll really see the real result of education.

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