The
colonial imperialist have completely left many people deluded by
completely changing our cultural and traditional values. In the past, we
practiced a functional education which is characterised with each
member of the society having one occupation or the other. Children learn
from adults by completely imitataing from them in all they do.
And the education of each community is determined by the type of occupation they do.
Most atimes, children goes to the farms, some practice weaven, some tye and dye, some crafting etc.. And this goes a long way to determining the well being of that particular community. By implication, there are available work and jobs thus everyone is self reliant. This is because when you have various occupations in the society, availbility of jobs is an added advantage as no one will be left depending on government for jobs.
Coming with age, the colonial imperialist succeded in changing such type of education that caters for everyone both the young and old. That jobs were no longer there. They introduced a different curriculum that replaced the previous ones we've been practicing. This of course led to the over dependence on goverment.The usage of head, hand and arithmetic replaced the famous head, hand and heart we've been doing. Therefore the hand, instead of engaging it self in doing vocational and creative things, its now a subject of constant writing and mathematical operations. The same thing goes with the brain, instead of it been busy thinking of creating something reasonable, its now left thinking about abstract things that has no pragmatic values and sense.
The issue of unemployment remains a huge problem in this country. And the FG are so myopic enough not to have realised changing the curriculum will help ease the buden on them. Kudos to them when they introduced a course called enterprenueship in tertiary institutions to help ease the problem on them. But even with that, do we have enough capital and other securities meant at helping our youths with jobs?
What the government fail to realise before is changing the curriculum from the grassroots. But in recent years, they've now transformed the educational curriculum of the lower levels. Coming down to primary school and secondary schools, they've now introduced courses like woodwork, fine art and other vocational courses meant at providing jobs and making people self reliant. The Nigerian philosophy of education is now trying as much as possible to see that other stake holders are encourage to facilitate the educational sector by building and providing infrastractures for easy learning and teaching.
With all the above explanations, the fact remains that. For how long will Nigerian continue to wait for such moments to come? Giving that almost half the population of the youths are unemployed.
And the education of each community is determined by the type of occupation they do.
Most atimes, children goes to the farms, some practice weaven, some tye and dye, some crafting etc.. And this goes a long way to determining the well being of that particular community. By implication, there are available work and jobs thus everyone is self reliant. This is because when you have various occupations in the society, availbility of jobs is an added advantage as no one will be left depending on government for jobs.
Coming with age, the colonial imperialist succeded in changing such type of education that caters for everyone both the young and old. That jobs were no longer there. They introduced a different curriculum that replaced the previous ones we've been practicing. This of course led to the over dependence on goverment.The usage of head, hand and arithmetic replaced the famous head, hand and heart we've been doing. Therefore the hand, instead of engaging it self in doing vocational and creative things, its now a subject of constant writing and mathematical operations. The same thing goes with the brain, instead of it been busy thinking of creating something reasonable, its now left thinking about abstract things that has no pragmatic values and sense.
The issue of unemployment remains a huge problem in this country. And the FG are so myopic enough not to have realised changing the curriculum will help ease the buden on them. Kudos to them when they introduced a course called enterprenueship in tertiary institutions to help ease the problem on them. But even with that, do we have enough capital and other securities meant at helping our youths with jobs?
What the government fail to realise before is changing the curriculum from the grassroots. But in recent years, they've now transformed the educational curriculum of the lower levels. Coming down to primary school and secondary schools, they've now introduced courses like woodwork, fine art and other vocational courses meant at providing jobs and making people self reliant. The Nigerian philosophy of education is now trying as much as possible to see that other stake holders are encourage to facilitate the educational sector by building and providing infrastractures for easy learning and teaching.
With all the above explanations, the fact remains that. For how long will Nigerian continue to wait for such moments to come? Giving that almost half the population of the youths are unemployed.
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