 But we are lining educational system for global relevance. Norsim Mandela once said and I quote, Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Now, is our current educational system ensuring the right education for our children and preparing them for the future? But recently I had a conversation with a little girl and she told me that she was taught about the tribe that is associated with the usage of different perfumes in Nigeria. Then I went through her books and I saw that in one of her subjects she was also taught that it is the duty of the mother to cook and clean and the duty of the father to provide. I became disappointed and disgusted at such level of parochialism in our educational curriculum. School curriculum ought to evolve continually and should be in tandem with understanding issues of local and global concern. This will enable our children to grow with the right kind of mindsets, relevant skills, knowledge to challenge the status quo and change the world. For educational system or curriculum to be relevant for a fast evolving world where globalization is at the center and fostered by technology, the following should be considered by relevant authorities while planning for the educational system. Appreciating globalization, exposure to global issues ranging from learning about history, culture and contemporary issues, understanding technology where now in the era of connectivity, metavas, virtual reality, automation and robotics. Skill acquisition, soft skills like enhancing cognitive ability effective communication, empathy and enforcing positive values fostering creativity. Children should be guided to discover their potentials. Innovation and intelligence should be refined. Education is beyond schooling but we must ensure that our schools should be the right environment where our children can get quality education. So let's discuss your thoughts. You're talking primary and secondary schools. Yes, primary specifically. So the fact that we don't teach history is a problem. So I think it also starts with that is that we need to know who we are, who we were to know where we're going. We need to know ourselves and then place ourselves into the context of the modern world. And so we have an issue of the identity right off the bat. We need to completely change our educational system. I'm sure everybody here will agree with me. It's absolute nonsense. And what really taught a lot of parents that is when we were on lockdown in Covid and we're all teaching our own children. And I totally revamped their curriculum and understood that look, it's not all about open book, learn this, learn this. They had to learn how to take care of themselves. They had to learn how to cook and clean and not just the girls, the boys. They had to learn to garden, to plant things, to clean, to imagine, to draw. It's not about your skill. It's not about the ability at that point. It's about exposing children to all the things of life and allowing them to find their direction within a framework of course. And we in Nigeria, we have a tent to just say you will do this. You will do that. Girl does this. Boy does that. And not realizing that we're short changing our entire society in the long run in our future because what you segment or partition one child in and put another in is what you're doing for an entire future in the nation. And we need to think in larger terms when we're thinking about the education of our children but I can go on and on. Because I have special needs, child. And that's another subject. The thing is shortly before I get to Juliet, I can feel your pain. Look at this issue. You teach your child the right thing. You are trying to teach your children to learn about how to be responsible. And then when they get back to school, imagine this curriculum where they have to tell them that the father's job is just to provide and the mother is to cook and clean. And then they come back to tell you that this particular tribe, I won't mention the name. They are used to using different performance. And then they are messing with your children's mind. So our curriculum should be devoid of sentiment on tribal or gender sentiment. So your thoughts, how do you think we can carry along young people because they need to grow these children. They need to learn skills from small. How to build themselves. So firstly, since you are asking these questions, my first answer is the home is a primary educator of the child. So that's what I'll say for that. But let's look at the educational system as a whole. You see, I think the main work should be done by the ministry. This is me. Because before now, we went to sleep when we saw that there was a huge value, huge improvement in the private sector. So we all focused and put our children in the private sector and the government sector suffered. So maybe the ministry was not governing the private sector. Apart from when they are giving licenses and the likes. But now, like Tonya said, with the COVID, we saw that the entire system locally is crap. So now it's biting everybody. It's really biting people. So the ministry has to have like a blueprint. They have to have an agenda, like a goal. What do they want for, what kind of end game do they want for our children? What do they want our children to know, to like, to do at the end? I mean, while passing through the educational system and create that curriculum that will think that it has to be done at a national level because now the entire system is messed up. And people are thinking of sending their children abroad now at very young age because we're waiting for university and masters before. Now people are doing secondary school at grade nine. People are thinking of sending their kids abroad because they are structured. Their curriculum is in sync with the time. Because they are doing research, they are implementing. And we are just there with the same textbooks we use. I'm still doing computer science using book, using binary code. You see some computer test. This is what I used like 20 years ago. So we're not even involving. I think the sector, the ministry. But is there even the will to involve? Is the will there? Because you bring up that point about the private sector, the private schools. Everybody sends their children to private schools whether it's the low one or the high one because unless you have any choice unless you don't have any choice you will send your child to private school. Otherwise you're forced to send your child to government school. And I don't really know what value government school is giving. Apart from maybe getting the free meal for the child if that is still in effect. So it's so messed up and it's so frustrating and just on top of the kegs or powder kegs or explosives that we're just putting on top to explode this country. This is a major one because this is the foundational years. And these are the important years and these are the impressive years. And children eventually will wake up to the fact that what they're learning is nonsense. Why should they even bother? It's just to do yaw yaw or let me just let you talk currency and start trading. And school is a scam and to be honest university is a scam in my opinion. But we're not, we're just talking about primary and secondary school. Well Victor what does this all mean? Victor you have to speak now. So I mean I've got two things to say first. I think that what we have consciously or subconsciously trained to become from cradle is to be literate and not to be educated. So you can know stuff and you are not educated. How many first class really that we produce are really educated. Education changes you as a person. You're able to use that knowledge and at the slide, I love the fact that Tonya said take her children on creative thinking, imagination, doing stuff and all of those things. Once I made a joke, I mean I've been learning X, Y, X, DYGX, I came into life and life was not asking me X, Y, X and find Y. I wasn't looking for X. I was looking for money and nobody taught me financial intelligence and I was learning X plus Y equals to O and life doesn't care about that. So secondly I believe like Gilead said where your heart where your treasure is where your heart will be and where your heart is is where your treasure is going to be. Where is the heart of our leaders? Where is the treasure? Where are they putting the treasure? Where is all the money going into? How much funding goes into education? So like she said do they really care about education? I mean it's not about when it's election we start eating with young people. It's such a great thing. You just nailed it. But there's something we've been doing recently like Wimbis, some organisations Wimbis just did one the big sister programme. We went to different public schools but secondary school children it was amazing because even though they think the school system is a fraud but by seeing us seeing us that are otherwise successful I think it gives them that aspiration because it was like some form of mentorship. I mean I really respected the Heads of Schools who allowed us and went to like about six cities I'm sorry there was Calabar there was Potacot, Abuja, Lagos and somewhere else and they shared over 80 of us to those schools we went to all the classes we did some mentoring it was really really nice maybe we can also do that while we're waiting for the Minister of Education to do that Yeah we can't wait for it I'm going to chip this in I hope they will listen to us I remember several times in convocation ceremony where they will say the best student in accounting get 5000 or 50,000 and then somebody will do one something not so necessary in entertainment and gets 10 million error I hope you know that the country and the economy will not only be built on entertainment we need quality education Indeed society challenges are never ending hence they need to keep advocated in our private spaces we hope that it all coalesces into improved humanity existing Join us again next week on another edition of The Advocate The Advocate continues on our social media platforms on Facebook Plus TV Africa Hashtag The Advocate NG and Instagram at Plus TV Africa Hashtag The Advocate NG To catch up with previous brokers go to plustvafrica.com forward slash The Advocate NG Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel Plus TV Africa Let's keep advocating for a better society Bye for now