Don't get schooled to know what everyone else knows...

in #writing5 years ago (edited)

"It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows."- Henry Doherty.image.png


School is a playground for everyone who can afford to pay the fee and also for those we are privileged. Many go through school because they have to, while others go because, they think they should, but not many think they should get an education for the right reasons. The curriculum being used in schools is a continuous repetition of known ideas from decades again. In most cases, it is like learning to fit inside a box.

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School is open when you make the move to attend and you will no doubt get an education, but the real learning starts after you take a walk from school. The provisions as contained in the dictionary regarding school, tells us we are to learn what our parents learn and nothing else. School doesn't teach you how to take on the streets and it also doesn't teach you to think outside the box. School is cool when in session, and it is amazing. But outside the world, it can be a struggle; it is really a struggle and no one knows to tell us what to expect.image.png
Last week, I overhead a conversation between 2 fresh graduates while at a bus park and I spent over a dozen minutes feeling sorry for them as they tried to talk themselves into believing that, after school, they can get a good paying job. Don't get me wrong, they can get good paying jobs but, the chances right now is not playing in their favour as there are over a million jobless graduates who hit the unemployment market over 400 days ago.
Getting an education is important, but, it is also very imperative that we seek to get the kind of education that sees us staying outside the box. Do not fit in the box while in school, look outside the walls of the school and grab as much as you can so you do not get stung when school closes.

It is crazy the things they tell us about getting an education in school and it is also crazy the amount of wonderful things you can learn getting schooled outside the walls of the school. I pick and choose unconventional education over tailored ones that tells us what everyone else knows.

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What we learn outside school is what actually defines us..

I learned very few real life skills from my Uni. Most of the skills I learnt were self taught. The best education any school can offer is to teach students to improve daily and be self reliant

Wao! @ejemai, you really are a motivation. You really have skill and expertise of conveying your brilliant thoughts to the readers in the most interesting way.

Like you said earlier, i would also say "learning at school should be a means to an end, not the end itself", a lot of graduate gets out of school knowing what other knows. Hence, unable to make the desired difference in the society. School is sweet, no doubt, but what good is a theoretical knowledge without a practical application and appreciation?

Creativity is what life after school demands; so, i believe that striking a balance between " creativity and education" while in school is the best.

Thanks for this educative piece @ejemai.

We all are trying to get an education to fit inside a box that is already filled by others. Education teaches us that we need the employment of others in order to survive. It doesn't teach us how to stand on our own should the employment of others fail to come. Some of us are still trying to figure out what conventional education failed to teach us many years after leaving the four walls of the university and it has not been easy

The sad reality is that so many people are still believing that education is their key to success. It may be the key in some other countries but in Nigeria, that is no more possible. Education will only give you a paper and place you at the mercy of those that would want to God over you. It is what you learn or decide to know after receiving the paper that education has given you that would determine how high you would climb in life.

Educational is just one step among the hundreds of steps to success. The remaining steps must be figured out by us. And those steps can only be found out outside of the walls of conventional school.

I wish many of us saw something like this years back! We believed so much in going for a professional course, thinking that that is all we need to get our dream job. We only saw the reality after leaving school. It's well!

Thanks for your wonderful and insightful piece.

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