TO MY CLASS MATES: TO HELL WITH SCHOOL

Getting admission into any university this age is like winning a lottery, even though unlike a lottery, you will have to pay all through your studies, but you would feel most blessed among the thousands of applicants who have no where to go.
Most of us got into school with the mindset of making something meaningful out of our lives or in most cases, going through the norm of getting educated, but have we ever had time to sit back and ask ourselves, do we really need to go to school? Or have we merely succeeded in wasting some four or five years of our lives?
Someone might be wondering if I am one of those who hate the idea of education, but to your disappointment, the reverse is the case, I am an Apostle of good education, but our form of education in this part of the world has discouraged most of us. Nevertheless, I am not dispirited; I still understand the value of good education even if we have not gotten it right.
In this age, the only difference between an educated person and an uneducated person is the certificate, take the paper away and they are at par. Maybe the uneducated fellow has even learnt more from the school of hard knocks than the fresh prince who only knows to speak English well. Mind you, English doesn’t solve economic problems, good English doesn’t fix mechanical problems, English may not put food on the table, in fact, too much English complicates issues, we claim to be who we are not, and we complicate issue with too much vocabulary and grammatical nonsense.
At this critical time, when we have just a step to move out of the citadel of learning, we must ask ourselves several hard questions, some of which should include – have you achieved what you aimed to achieve out of school? Do you feel qualified to go out to the labour market offering yourself as a service provider? Have you added enough value to yourself that can attract the wealth you would need to survive? Do you feel the same way you felt when you came to school in your first year? Do you need to add some other qualifications to your present degree to become more relevant? What more can you do?
It is no more news that we are wealth craze in this age, but until we understand that wealth answers to value, we may not amount to anything. The more value we add to ourselves, the more wealth we attract, the more problems we can solve, the wealthier we become, the more service we provide, the more we are able to create wealth. Anything besides these will be questionable and even if it creates wealth, may not last. So if you have acquired wealth through fraud, watch out, it is merely seasonal.
Get value on yourself, don’t just go to school, get schooled, only then will you become proud of yourself and the person you would become.