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Schooling for many people is to prepare them for a solid, safe financial future and this is where many get it wrong. While securing a future is a good thing, schooling is designed for a more holistic purpose. Has I had said in my previous post, wrong department or not, schooling helps build a total man (or woman). At best what your departmental choice will do for you is to bring you basic concepts and terminologies that will make training easier. So why school? EDUCATION FOR A FUTURE CAREER While the general concept of schooling, particularly tertiary education is to upgrade the level of thought and ability to reason, schooling, in particular, tailors your suitability for specific career choices. While you ultimately decide what you want to do with your life, the kind of education you get particularly based on your course options will prepare you for a future career in that area. I have emphasized before that while the techniques and methods for achieving results ...

If you have attended any of my classes particularly for final and penultimate year students, you would have heard me at one time or the other make this statement, even with mild threats (of course with clear explanations. The phrase is just for catch power!). While I did a master's degree (and will conclude my PhD soon), I have advised a lot of students not to take that route. It might look hypocritical, but I will explain it to you. The problem largely stems from a lot of students not being able to decide on time what they want to do with their lives. Like I usually say, schooling is meant to mature you, and sadly, a lot of students spend 4/5 years in school without determining or charting a course for their lives or careers (I recently had to reprimand a small group who were more interested in bragging about the number of female genitalia they have mutilated with theirs, instead of focusing on their upcoming exams). Fortunately, the government gives everyone a one y...

Schooling for many people is to prepare them for a solid, safe financial future and this is where many get it wrong. While securing a future is a good thing, schooling is designed for a more holistic purpose. As I have said in my previous post , wrong department or not, school builds a total man (or woman). At best what your departmental choice will do for you is to bring you basic concepts and terminologies that will make training easier. So why school? TO SHOW YOU ARE ABLE TO HANDLE YOUR LIFE (MATURE) A number of us got into school early. For someone who finished schooling at 21, I was still not the youngest in my class!   We had guys who could not handle their finances and kept on calling home for reinforcement. One guy lost all his property during the first week. It was like boarding school all over again. Most had issues with academics, no longer being in a regimented environment, they experienced liberty (sweet liberty) for the first time and instead of a...

Are you a bad boy? Do you love sitting at the back of the class? Chatting away, distracted and really not interested in the class at hand? Do you find yourself always at the other end of the wrath of lecturers, with endless complaints about you being a bad boy? Do you have a below average academic performance or Grade point Average (GPA). This message is for you! Throughout my schooling days, I knew better than sit at the back, because that is where the bad boys sat. Even if you were not a bad boy, you stood the risk of being caught alongside them in their antics and probably ended up as the scapegoat because you were not vast at evading punishment like they were. My mother always advised to seat in front and that is just what I did! Now a lecturer, I have the opportunity to interact will all sections of the class. While so many of the facts that went along that advice are truisms, one thing I have realised is that the "bad boys" have a pretty much clearer outlook ...

Help! I am in the wrong department!! One major excuse I have heard repeatedly given for failure in academics is the choice of a wrong course. It is a major factor contributing to the loss of interest and ultimate dissolution of grit, passion and determination to succeed. Many people start off well and give up once the going gets tough simply because they believe "they are not wired" for the rigours. While it is true that interest and ability determines a lot with regards with output and performance, it doesn’t outrightly mean you have to be a failure. I love talking about my entry into school and how I matured into what I do today. The saying goes that "when the desirable is not available, the available should become desirable". We live in an environment where to a large extent the choice of the course to study is determined by parents, guardians or sponsors. They ultimately have a say (a beggar has no choice), and are also expected to do some little ...