Number 431 A proper and effective educational system will not promote inferiority complex;
A proper and effective educational system will not promote inferiority complex; it does otherwise. The best of everyone is sought for in a proper educational system and not the privileged few.
Education is a searching mechanism/tool that is supposed to penetrate into the heart of a human being and bring the best out of him. The educated mind of a person brings to bear a productive society leading onto libration for everyone in accordance to everyone’s gifting, experience and knowledge acquired.
A progressive educational system should not seek to discriminate and or marginalise; it should not be used as a torchlight to serve the purpose for the best of the best.
Any education system that favours early starters over the late starters; that stigmatises some as failures in a classroom and subjects them to poor results, would not necessarily achieve anything other than to create a class system: the gifted and talented academically against the struggling rest.
The best approach to get the best out of every learner is by operating a grade less system of education. Learners are examined or tested based on what they know and not placed on any pedestal of ranking.
Such an approach will completely abolish stratification in the classroom which often leads to unhealthy rivalry, competition and sadly resulting to some students taking their lives thinking they do not measure up to their peers.
It is my view that continuous educational assessment using the appropriate tools to bring the best out of every student as supposed to the stringent and conventional examination process would serve and achieve the best results.
Many school systems makes the gruesome mistakes by classifying some students as the dullards and some, the brightest. I can almost feel and smell when I enter into a classroom where there is segregation based on academic performance.
I wrote extensively on my educational journey in my first and two books and what the system did to my self confidence which went on to affect every aspect of my life.
Remember education is supposed to transform weaknesses into strengths not the other way round. Education will also create an avenue to make the brights even brighter. Education should not be used as a tool to create unhealthy rivalry.
During my educational journey In Nigeria, I was made to feel inferior (in the home front and within the education system) to the point that on few occasions I nearly took my own life.
To get the best out of anyone educationally the best approach is to empower individuals through multiple approaches based on the individual's needs and abilities, not one fix-it-all approach.
Society, and most profoundly, the educational system in Nigeria needs to strengthen students' performance and collectively and not leave some of them behind based on academic lapses.
Finally, there is the urgent need to renegotiate the format of education broadly in Nigeria to ensure a complete mind shift. Great emphasis should be on those that are perceived to be struggling educationally to raise them to a level where they can stand and be counted amongst the brightest in the society.
Society needs to be strengthened, made broader to accommodate and celebrate everyone’s educational achievements. Such approach will promote a sense of belonging that progression in life goes beyond the confinement of the formal education. After all, the aim of education is to ensure that everyone does well in life.
Israel Ayodele E. A. Lazarus Oshunremi
Bachelor of Arts, Honours In Education and Community Studies, UEL
Mentor/Educationalist/Public Speaker/Human Rights Activist/Author
Founder and CEO of Lazarus Ayo Oshunremi Ventures.
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