Education
is the life wire of a nation, but education without basic foundation is
dangerous to economy of any nation. A nation without adequate educational
system is heading to disarray system of government. Whereby tyranny becomes the
order of the day compared to countries like Uganda ruled by INDIAMIN and Libya governed by LATE MUMMAR GADAFFI. Tyranny is demonstration of illiteracy; a well
informed personality can never rule people with iron hand and hot temper
because those people he/she is leading are not animal but human who had
undergone disciplines that supposed to be given attention before promulgation
of any law that will abide. As a result, a nation suppose to look into the
system of education in practice to see if it is well executed in the system as
specified in the constitution governing the nation.
Using
Nigeria as a case study, we practice 6-3-3-4 system of education. This is to
mean that every legal citizens of Nigeria must go through Primary education for
six years and obtain a certification named FIRST
SCHOOL LEAVING as evidence that he/she has attended and graduated from primary
school education. After which he/she is now qualified for the secondary
education. The secondary Education is of two categories in Nigeria which
comprises: The three years in the junior
secondary (JSS) and the three years
in the senior secondary (SSS). When one must have concluded both, the person
will receive what is called TESTIMONIAL CERTIFICATE
to prove he/she has completed the secondary school and are qualified for
the next four years in the University or tertiary institution.
But
due to corruption in the country what we see today is contrary to the system of
education in practice, people no longer complete the phases of educational system in Nigeria
before writing external exams like General
Certificate Examination (GCE) and Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exam. This is improper, it should
be a mandatory rule that anyone applying for external exams must provide FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING and TESTIMONIAL
CERTIFICATE as a requirement that he/she has completed both system and are
now eligible to finalize in the higher institution. I think these two requirements
will make every student to be more serious in education.
But
due to negligent, every dick and harry enter Universities, more especially tertiary
institutions anyhow, even after hiring machineries to write exams for them. I
have seen a stack illiterate whom was a notorious bus conductor that was a drop
out and at the end of the day Jump into University after successful
malpractices in writing JAMB and GCE. Government had to look in to this
issue; as this forms the major basis of corruption in the nation.
Before
you know it, a bus conductor will graduate with sorting lecturers to pass
exams. After graduation, the aspiring position for such a person is politics. This
is where these touts will like to feature their career, in order to display
their thugs of war activities. Contesting for election becomes the order of the
day. And this is the problem in this country. When people with empty brain
become our leaders, we are doomed, because they must abuse power out of
Ignorant and embezzle public funds anyhow to the detriment of their assignments.
So
let us monitor our 6-3-3-4 stride standard of education as a basic foundation
for grooming future leaders of this nation Nigeria who will bring about change,
innovation and development in the society as well as instigate peace and unity
to the detriment of war in the nation.
Education
is priority prize for every good citizen of country to achieve for the success
of his life, community and the entire nation. But it is not like that in the
developing world like Nigeria due to corruption. Let us emulate from other
western world like Europe who has maintained standard till date due to enlightenment
and literacy in their society. They are successful in leadership more than we
do because they made their education priority to leadership. For them, you
cannot amount to any leader more than what is in your brain. You have to
undergo series of interrogation through panels in the white house or House of
Lords and Public media to prove that you are eligible and capable to the
proposed position. They achieve these based on what is in your brain, and this
comes up after verification if your certifications are genuine and other social
life affairs as well as police clean records free of crime in the society. If you
don’t meet up to their standards, you will not be a leader in the community,
states or nation.
With
these I think we are due to check corruption in Nigeria System of education to
ascertain future delivery and success in the society. Long live Nigeria system
of Education, Long Live Enugu State, and Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria;
long live Nations of the world.
Written
by
ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD
CONTACT: +2348186388641
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