 გ გ გ მ გ გ უ მ ᄪე მ მ ი ი გ მ ი ფ ი უ გ ე ი ვ ე ი უ მ ი ბი ე ი გ გ ი მ პ ე უ ა ე  Airl cursed Ep ن larva' ēw wā qayi  Realm of crocodiles Billionaire season  Нов ēw  semin Bitch 唔 睡 Thank you ʕ Ḥ Educational ʕ ʈ ʕ � ʕ ʔ ʔ ʔ ʔ l men fingers the formidable task of providing quality education to citizens, public schools on the other hand play a crucial role in achieving this goal, as they are intended and expected to be accessible by all, regardless of social I kona m Doing status of the citizens. Especially the common man however the state of public schools in Nigeria has been a big topic of concern for years. and see the possibility of becoming someone and you can only do that when the person has been educated enough to see themselves in that capacity when I go to school towards and I teach children how to create their vision board I'm excited teaching them because I understand that the only thing that stops them from their next level or their next level of success is the ability to picture it but when you don't even have the basic education to be able to see yourself from this kind of community how do we move from here like literally sometimes I wonder how our government how especially officials that have the capacity to change things how they sleep at night now look at that school if you see the building he was talking about is being built by the community I can totally relate with that roads in our house we built it even when I was growing up where we lived because my father is he's a builder he builds roads, he builds houses and all of that for a living there was a time we had that bridge literally every morning I kid you not every morning that we drive past that bridge we all used to have our hearts in our mouth because the bridge was eroding it was eating up so I can never forget the day that my father he just finished a major contract when he finished that major contract he still had excess building materials he deployed everything and constructed a bridge that bridge is still what stands in that area till tomorrow so when the sharia crisis happened in kaduna in our house in kaduna when the sharia crisis happened and the people came like the people that didn't know us like the Muslims came and said that was why my neighbors that were Muslims they stood in front of our house that if you burn this people's house be ready to burn our own too because these people have been nothing but good people and this is just one man making an impact not to talk about someone that you have the capacity to make an impact to change lives do you know what these children can become tomorrow you only think we are asking our government we don't ask you to give us money give us the capacity to be able to fish and the only way we have the capacity to be able to make money is when we are educated enough to know what we need to do that we are fighting for basic education it's a big shame and I'm really upset you know there was something you said and I just found a quote just to piggyback on that education is the software of any society to what programs us to see the world the way we do and to conduct ourselves the way we do that's a quote by Peter Mutharika and what I wanted to remember our initial discussion on values because this same government schools this school is not Saturday so most of the public schools back in their heyday the leaders we have today is this same school that they passed through do you understand like they put up the schools they were 13 or 12 or whatever this school so how come that this school has given you enough that you can now go to the polls or come out for election and now give your certificate and say oh I graduated from this school but then we go back to those schools and they are dilapidated so what is not the essence of you being in a power they say children are the future of tomorrow yes you were a child yesterday today you are now old so how do you give back to the society for me this is the point I'm trying to make I'm like if the society has given you this if this school has given you education and the exposure you needed to get to this level in life now that you are in this level in life and even more amazing you are in a position in government to do better how come you are not giving better to these schools tell me what your thoughts are and I'll come to your offer well I mean the educational system in Nigeria is fueling a lot of corruption and it is currently serious underfunding for the educational system in Nigeria and it only goes to show that our leaders are not they don't take education very seriously not a priority for them because you can even tell from their own personal delay about all the so certificate saga I'm sorry that I had to tie to certificate saga but you can also tell from that because if education was very paramount to them the way they take maybe tourism they will take it very seriously in Nigeria because especially in government school the way they take politics because even in tourism they are not paying attention to this the level of nepotism being played in public schools these days is very terrible because you find out that there are a lot of unqualified teachers teaching because there is maybe one headmistress there that has a candidate that she just wants to give a job and then no background check is done nothing is being done so it is that we are dealing with procurement fund the money that has been allocated for them to buy school materials chairs tables for the students to learn they are diverting the funds to something else and I think that this is just wickedness it's sheer wickedness because your own children are not even in the country to actually study and then the people who can the poor who you have made to remain poor anyway the poor who can afford to take their children overseas to learn you are making them even further incapacitated because I mean it is one thing to say I want to go to school this school you are going to if there is nobody to teach you there I don't see what you are going to go through then you know what breaks my heart how did the government schools that back then was the 8th school how did it now deteriorate because education is now paramount to our leaders of today they don't care about the educational system of Nigeria as much as they should care and that is exactly the problem let me hear your thoughts there are multiple factors that actually I have to do with what you are saying about the fall from grace to speak of the public educational system but what I would like to say generally about education in itself I heard this thing somewhere I can't remember where it was that I heard it the person that knows that he doesn't know but the person that doesn't know that he doesn't know that is the worst type of person that you can ever run into because it's like without education in itself you are living your life with a blanket over your entire body so you don't even know what parts of your body you have you don't know what they are capable of doing you don't see like you said the extent to which you can grow and progress as a person we used to do this thing in secondary school where I think I told you about it you tutor kids from the indigenous community because it's in ocean state in local and then the community is mostly rural so a lot of public schools there and when you go into the schools even when I saw this I wasn't even moved because that is similar comparable to the standard that we saw there so when you see situations like that you get very heart broken but what they now did to make the situation better for us at least was that they brought these students to Alashir and they said okay you come and teach them so on saturday morning everybody else be waiting for sports and it's just been me and I'll be teaching these people at first I used to get very frustrated I was missing out but I realized that because of what I did because I even was educated enough to do it I've provided someone at least the opportunity to take off that blanket and make something of themselves now because of it so many people that were indigenous killing it at Alashir and even beyond so I guess it makes that much of a difference that's amazing that's amazing we have a caller but we'll take a break we'll be right back please stay on the line thanks for staying with us we're discussing the state of our educational system in Nigeria and I think we have a caller on the line Gabriel sorry for keeping you good evening thank you for calling go ahead please okay thank you sorry I think we get a bit of what you're saying so if you want to join the conversation the number to call is 07025 007749 that's the number to call we're asking is it possible for us to have a better educational structure especially for children in the public schools in Nigeria that's the number to call remember to turn off the volume of all the devices that you're listening in so we don't get the feedback I mean amazing because part of why I love the idea of people ask me why do we do long journeys or soon state I'm going this weekend to go and see my younger son it's not an easy trip for me anybody that knows me knows I hate because I have motion sickness I hate road trips but the reason I actually loved that school is what Alpha just described now so they're looking beyond they're raising responsible leaders they're looking beyond personal and saying you know what I'm finding a way to impact this knowledge in the community and from there they've been able to take a lot of those community children that could not have been able to afford I mean they would never have been in their wildest dream they couldn't afford to good education most of them got admission fully funded scholarship in Olashera because of this kind of things these are individuals doing pockets of things like literally we're not asking for too much the government is already doing a lot of things we're already doing everything by ourselves I am sorting out my road I am sorting out my light I'm sorting out everything the only thing we're begging like how do you watch these children they're not able to go to school if you did not go to school would you be where you are today come on at least give people an option of going to a public school or a private school not because we don't want to go to a public school because it is really terrible but because at least it is good both public and private is good so anyone that wants to go to let's take Loma from Abia State Loma your life good evening my dear sister good evening in fact I have seen the level of hunger in your heart so it will be fine we all are not happy I'm telling you see the government have allowed the proliferation of private schools because of the proliferation of private schools the now decided to allow the public school to defend it's quite unfortunate and that is why I as a woman I don't like democracy if you look at what is happening in Gabon the ministries don't know what is doing in Gabon now we have to have that kind of government in Nigeria you will see all the public schools will down be reduced so I'm using this opportunity look at what is going on in Nigeria I'm breaking go to everywhere in this country so if they will stop the proliferation of private schools and make sure they will rebuild this public school they will rebuild them make them function and make them look like people are good and well but that is we cannot do anything I don't like democracy democracy is killing us thank you very much so let me paint a vivid picture yesterday in fact that was the topic but I couldn't stand that topic because it was too hard breaking for me now you have neglected public schools right now you have one man businesses running private schools there's a school right now in delta state that the police have arrested the head of the school the owner of the school the principal and I'm sorry to explain this this is how painful it is for me a four year old girl was raped by that man he did not just rape her he used scissors literally to so how do you sleep do you understand other parts of the world people are running away from private schools because it's of no use to them they are just extremely expensive some private schools in Kenya shut down why? because nobody was patronizing them and also part of the things supporting this Japan syndrome is because most of these countries they are going to have free and basic education up to university let's take the youngest old man and then take me around here thank you good evening because we are going to get public airtime logo for you corona only private airtime for you corona he's going to get angry I'm going to smile I'm not saying the problem is they are paying but remember as they are paying on a very good day we have just a very simple antidote to every problem in this country but the problem is who is going to implement who is going to allow the policies to fly let's just do a primary two thinking you know there is a solution to think about some things who just think it but we know it might not happen you understand imagine now there is a policy that everybody decided that anybody that comes into an office in this country must not have any of this kind outside the country schooling that they must go through the schools that the average man goes to eating the public school in fact they will not even go to public school you understand me now you will see how fast those schools we have faced it's not even magic the problem we have in this country fundamentally is that the policies the law is not helping the format it's meant for the rich by the rich and to extend to the rich so they make a format a format fill that anger to make it by fire by force and how can we fight corruption with such difference when you have a poor man under 3% and a rich man in 98% so basically especially the politicians you can see a child going up to if you see a child going to primary school where they are paying almost 340,000 360,000 per 10 and you want me tomorrow to come and understand that they will fix those schools it's not possible so my dear I understand your pain but the policies cannot help us we just have to change the world let me tell you even the local government alone they decided not to allow those in government to go to private schools trust me how those schools will be as far back as the private schools and competition will will definitely come up all the people we see in us today they all enjoyed free school they enjoyed good schools they had a uniformed party absolutely so they are making people look stupid thank you I was just going to say that the group of leaders that we have today do they have young children no okay go ahead how they do do they have young children they go to school in primary school some of them marry as much as 4 or 5 boys so they might have young kids okay go ahead so all these private schools you see the children the boozy kids well yeah well I wanted to say something we've been looking at this entire conversation from the aspect of politics and the government but then it's how we want to uplift public education in general so what I want to focus on now is the curriculum itself something that I noticed the technical drawing in secondary school and it's the exact same things that I'm doing now that he did 36 years ago when he was in secondary school and then like one tries to get at is the fact that even if we did fix the public school the physical building the essence of it still can't get you anywhere that's why you will notice a unique value proposition that a lot of these private schools have is the fact that they offer dual curriculums in the sense that Grange British, Pure British, Temple British Lucky British International School British, Olashary, Nigerian and British because they know that our own level of our standard for education is not feasible in the international space so I guess if we have solved the entire government's problem whenever that may turn out to be let's also still look at the education itself and improve the quality of that as well it was worth to say that they are not paying attention to the educational system as they should let's take some comments then we'll come back to the conversation you can go I don't think I have any hope okay Rwanda rose from the ashes of war in 1994 today Rwandans withdrawing kids from private schools to public schools because of what a visionary leader had done there yes it is possible to have a better educational system in Nigeria especially the public schools the only missing link is visionary leadership who genuinely have the interest and progress of Nigerians at heart this is from me in Omole okay I think he is the same person who sent this on our main topic for discussion education and public schools in Nigeria the quote of today is apt on this government since I'm not sure I would say since 1983 okay since 1983 negative education and the public schools was of education being highly commercialized in Nigeria today with zero holistic approach and regulation of such critical sector from teacher training to outdated curriculum, poor infrastructure etc the issues the issues plenty sad part is those who enjoyed education in public schools in the same Nigeria now running Nigeria me from Omole I think I don't have a message but I think Alpha made a very very valid point about the curriculum because right now the world is fast becoming it has already become like a global village such that we need to be educated such that I can work here I can be educated in Nigeria and use my certificates to get a job somewhere else you understand right now people are not and I think we discussed this a couple of weeks ago maybe last month Nigerians are not being educated to meet the needs of the 21st century remember when the lack of knowledge came here that I asked him a question about what really is education and he said that for you to be educated for you to identify as a literate person you have to be able to not knowing math and English and literature you need to be able to think for yourself you need to be able to find a solution for yourself you need to be so valuable in such a way that they can throw you into any situation and then you know how to use what you have learnt in school to like think up a solution and sincerely speaking I mean even if they renovate that building you know or make it look better at those you start from some way so I get what Alpha is saying 100% I totally agree I studied physics imagine 4 years of studying physics I did not build anything I didn't do nothing so first of all they think they were teaching us they were teaching us analog they weren't even moved away they were already leaving the digital phase I was very specific to say on that I'm not sure how much you would agree with this but then I believe in Nigeria we have a dominance culture of subservience so the teachers in most of these schools let's say the public schools they want to have the feeling of being the only person that knows how to do something so that's the thing that you're saying about people being able to learn on their own being able to expand their knowledge on their own it can't exist in the Nigerian educational society because the very idea of a student being independent of the teacher frightens them it shakes their ego some extent so should I say now that because my lecturer or teacher is going to be frightened if I decide taking because two things when I was in secondary school I had this issue let me say I understood English more than my English teacher every time he comes to class or even points at me to ask a question I'm saying the correct thing and of course correcting him but he always picked on me and I'm like it's not my fault that you don't know beyond what you know you don't know if you don't do that you don't live out it's a form of insecurity I feel like that insecurity that comes from this comfort zone that we as Nigerians are so I'm not sure what the word is but we have very large tendencies to get because the thing that you said about those schools being so big and so proper back in those days but now they are almost nothing it's because back in those days we got comfortable nobody was thinking about how we are going to keep reinventing nobody talked about the population in boom nobody talked about the future as long as it works at that point in time it's good and I think there is also a similar problem that the leaders share because for them all of their children are abroad or in the best private schools in Nigeria they are so sensitive to do these things they are comfortable so they can't even physically see the problem that everyone else is having to deal with for us to find a solution first of all it cannot be outside of government because we've allowed the private sector to call me too much and trust me there are no regulations they do anything people say private school trust me it is the grace and message of God because even in those private schools there are so many things that have gone wrong even in terms of so you are paying a lot of money it's still nothing because your children are not well taught now you can't challenge a teacher there was a time before I think it was in year 4 if you forget the story I remember it clearly because I went to meet that teacher so there was a year 4 or year 3 I can't remember he gave you an assignment and you he gave you an assignment you solved the problem and he got the answer but because he did not use the solution of the method of the teacher he wronged him you made the wrong mother so because you see the way I am I'm a tyrant when it comes to forget about anything I don't hold Gucci I do not wear Gucci bag I do not wear a buttega it's because of education of these children because I understand that if you give a child quality education they can stand anywhere in this world and they can be somebody so we break our backs to be able to give our children quality education that is all we are asking this government if you don't solve any problem leave light we already find solutions to light at least give these children a chance to go to school for goodness sake it makes no sense it's looking the same schools that people went to and became somebody how do you feel going back to those schools you understand my mother said that when she was in polytechnic they used to come and launder her clothes for her they used to give them if you see the big chicken they used to give them in NYC when they were eating like literally everything you people enjoyed you have wiped it away let's take more comments quickly after you all say quickly I read the comment and I have something to say good evening my deities full sisters of what are you saying state of public schools what is the future of education for the common man in Nigeria it is so sad that we have a group of people that call themselves a government and they do not behave like one we do not have a government and that's the plain truth they do not care about the education system in Nigeria because their children don't school here imagine the structure of a school in the state if education is like this in Nigeria sorry to say we do not have a government it is so sad that this is happening in my dear beautiful sister states sister Ua sister Ua must be really heartbroken and disappointed nice to see all of a sudden in the studio nice to see you too as well as mother thank you very much my name is Daniel in ways regular fine thank you Daniel quickly this is from anonymous and the person says to me since the government did not care we should use the children's school fees to do the renovations one minute quickly you wanted to say something even if every single factor that we have discussed this evening comes into play at the end of the day some people will still not take the active choice to pursue education in itself because in Nigeria there is or let's say it's even more an African thing there are three major pathways in life if you're not a doctor, you're a lawyer, if you're not an engineer a lot of these things even the markets where it is rapidly increasing so it has gone abroad to different countries the people that we need the plumbers, the technicians, the electricians people that can actually do day to day stuff that keep the country running we don't go to school to study that and then if you try to do that the diversification of the curriculum it doesn't even accommodate any of that I will tell a very short story when I was registering for my job the people that there was this girl that had to pick a different subject it's only that she hadn't done for three years of school just because the subject selection for her career course wasn't a thing how does that even make any sense so you don't have to do a subject that you haven't read you haven't studied for because there's no option for it may the lord bless the reading of his word we are run out of time yes I want to say something very quickly I think another mistake that we're making when it comes to education is we just were centered around school education there's also vocational there's also vocational education that we need to focus on I think that we should focus on other than just school education I think if we don't if our guess does not cancel tomorrow we continue this conversation tomorrow I think is what having a second conversation around we'll see you guys tomorrow at 8pm remember to like share and invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation now if you missed our quote for today here it is again if a man neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life I bet we should go and think about it we'll see you guys tomorrow at 8pm ciao