EXPENSIVE EDUCATION

There is one thing that is sure in my country, and that is the fact that anyone can be educated, so long you have the money for it. Another thing that is also sure is that the amount of money you have is equal to the level of education you will receive. For example the level of education I received from kindergarten to Junior secondary school was different from the level of education I received while in a senior secondary boarding school. I remember entering my senior secondary boarding facility and being amazed with the things I saw. The level of education there gave me exposure and opened me up to a lot of things my mates then are still discovering to date. The level of education from where I came from was more strict with a lot of work load, the level of education I got afterwards was more flexible with a different teaching technique. I knew I was living the life, but it cost my parents 1 million naira per term to give me that level of education that gave me direct access to an A-level program afterwards and was going to give me a scholarship abroad until my dad could no longer afford it.

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Going through the higher institution, I was faced with the level of education I endured before senior secondary school. Hard and strict with a lot of work. And I guess since it was the higher institution, it came with some extras like politics, bribery and corruption with a whole load of injustice and wickedness from both lecturers and management. Although I was quick to adapt, it made learning hard. This is one reason why I do not consider those who have an easy education intelligent because I feel they will not survive the kind of heat those of us who did not have it easily endured. We had a set of lecturers who hated teaching, another set who did not know how to teach, another set who even though they could teach preferred the corruption of extorting from students in all manner of ways. At this point you do not just read to pass an exam, you must make sure to pray if you do not want to join those ass kissing students.

This is why in the real world, a lot of second class students and third class students of public higher institutions do better than the first class students of the modern private institutions or foreign institutions. A lot of these students from the Nigerian public institutions did not have poor results because they weren't intelligent, they mostly had bad results because they were not given a chance to excel but had to struggle to get through and refused kissing asses but held onto their principles. If I wanted to go pro in basketball my senior secondary school and A-level would have given me the opportunity, but we can’t say that for our public schools where the certificate is the only thing important and thus everyone does what they can to get it.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 178 EPISODE 1