Purpose of School

Most times I sit and I wonder the purpose of school. After going through history both by learning and stories; I realised that school was not relevant neither was it important. Going back in the days when our ancestors were scavengers and they ate whatever they see edible; be it good or bad so far it could fill the hunger crying out in them.

It was due to their search for food that made them begin to till the ground in order to find out if there was anything profitable in it. After a while; out of curiosity they decided to cut part of the food and replant it to see if it will grow again; and that was how farming was born.

It was born out of innovation and ideas, out of risk taking, out of disappointment sometimes and loss of resources. All this became their experience and knowledge in which they got and shared to their younger ones through stories. When their younger ones were come of age; they would learn through their parent, who would take them along when they were going to work and so gradually; division and specialisation of skill in labour came to be.

All this process and sequence in life was what gave birth to education and knowledge. I would define education in my own word as the process of teaching people what you know due to the experience you have had in your journey through life while knowledge is the understanding gotten from education and also trying to create your own experiences through innovation and ideas, risk taking, disappointment and sometimes loss of resources.

I see school as a building owned by education broken into different section in order to uphold division and specialisation of skill in labour. I see school as a training ground with so many commandants heading different section who are there for only one purpose; to inflict memories of pain and laughter, to strip you naked of things you got as a gift and make you work to get things you can proudly call your own.

I see school as a place where you mind your own business but not act as an island, a place where you get education for you and not because you want to join the family business. I see school as a place for you to be broken into pieces and make you feel abandoned so that you will learn to be independent.

I see school as a prison made to discipline you so as to present you back to life as a matured man. I see school as a place to present you with tough challenges of life and leave you to solve it by consulting the inner man in you called your mind.

I don’t see school as a place of competition nor a place that cares about your degree neither does it care about the grade you leave it but what it cares about is how you can bring solution to problems; how you can teach people to task their mind and how you can not only meet the demands of people but learn to serve them in humility; it also teaches you to be independent even if you don’t work for anyone and in quote “learn to be relevant in life”.

Taking A Risk

Most times the reason for our frustration is because we were too scared to take a risk. I don’t know where to start from but I will try and make a beginning. Life is a place filled with inevitable risk.Most workers these days are not satisfied with the work they are doing; not because they are over ambitious but because they are not doing what they have passion for.

Some of them try to change but they can’t because society has no budget or job opportunity for what they want to do; well here is one question, why can’t you take the risk to start it up as a business. See, talent or passion is not about the financial income alone but also about the inward satisfaction. Unfortunately, society has made it seem like if you are not successful, then you have no voice in the nation. This is the reason why the rich keep getting rich and the poor remain poor. The society is being over flooded with the highly respected occupation that is why there is high rate of unemployment and no certainty of undergraduates to get jobs when the finish yet they don’t want to take the risk to invest in the uncommon but productive aspect.  

Every human is so ambitious that they don’t like to be said no to. Well most times, the No is said to them because sometimes the people that tell them no don’t see the seriousness and passion in what you are proposing to do; you need to show them your commitment. Permit me to bring out a scenario in what I’m explaining; you have a friend who happens to be extremely close to you yet you have feelings or rather you are in love with her but you tend to fight this emotions because you are scared of losing her should in case she says no because maybe she doesn’t feel the same way but at the same time, there is no way you would know how she feels except you take the risk.

You tend to keep your feelings and watch another guy approach her and then she accepts then you being to feel so guilty and blame yourself for not taking the risk when you had the chance. Did you think your parents just met and started dating? No, your dad had to take the risk. And what makes you think that your mother is the first and only girl he expressed his feelings for? It is very rare for that to be the case. It is only relationships that circumstances brought them together that don’t end well.

Sometimes, parents are the reason for the in-satisfaction that their children face. Setting down profession careers before the child is even birthed and so when the child grows, he can’t do anything about it. It is true that sometimes children may not be able to choose what they want to do but it is not your duty to force to do what they don’t want to but it is your duty to guide them through what they want to do, sometimes this may call for tough decisions but still the most important thing is that you should try and understand you children. It is not all children that talks too much that are to be lawyers; they can also be teachers.

I hope I have haven’t made people misunderstand me or make children rebellious against their parent. Whatever your parents do to you, it is because they love you and want to discipline you to be great. All I’m just trying to say is learn to take a risk and know that it is not all no’s you should feel bad at because some are for the greater good.