Tayo Solagbade’s
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Monday 15th May 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]
This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter features nine (9) key questions I strongly recommend every parent ponder seriously over, to accurately discern how well the schooling his/her kids get will prepare them to function as vocationally competent and financially independent adults in society.
The cartoon below, quotes Einstein, in illustrating the FACT that our kids (and us adults) ARE NOT not all wired to learn or achieve in the same way!
Here are some signs and symptoms apparent in today’s society that convince me most of our conventional schooling systems are NOT equipping learners to function as described above.
Young people who actively seek ways to get money off you without doing any work or adding any value to you. Adults who constantly scheme and plot to do the same thing.
Personnel in banks who manipulate the computerized systems in their workplaces to skim money off your bank balance, or apply illegal transaction charges to your account.
Telecom companies operatives who subscribe your mobile number to silly services you have no interest in, and/or deduct airtime from your phone for phantom services. These are a few examples of the kind of activities happening with ever increasing frequency in the Nigerian society.
Most of those people involved in doing the above naughty things are SCHOOLED people, often with at least University level education.
Yet they find it necessary to engaged in crooked activities to make money for their companies and themselves.
Like I’ve said in a past article, schooled people who steal are manifestations of a cruel paradox.
I say this because we all know that we are told that if we want to end up well in life, all we need to do is go to school, get good grades and then get good jobs.
Sadly, what we see in society proves that many well schooled people who find good jobs with good companies, still go on to steal and cheat at work and in life.
That’s why they get sacked and sometimes sentenced to prison..Many MANY examples abound in the past and present history of Nigeria – as I am sure you, the reader, know!
But why do they do it? Why do well schooled people steal?
I’ve answered that question in an earlier article.
[See [Podcast] Real Reason Why Well Schooled People Commit Fraud (Tayo Solagbade’s “Difference Between Schooling & Education” Series)]
It’s because they do NOT know how to make money, or more money and they are AFRAID that the money that have is (or will) not be enough.
You see, the schools did not teach them how to make money. Only how to work for money – as employees, trading time for money.
And that limits how much they can get. So when they want more, not knowing any better way, they often settle for crooked ways to get it.
Simply put therefore, conventional schooling shortchanges learners – but many do not know it!
The questions highlight glaring contradictions between what we are told “schooling” WILL deliver to learners, and the realities the learners end up facing upon graduation. Parents who truly love their kids will carefully study these questions and use the insights they gain to better guide their kids’ education.
- Why is it that girls willing to dancing seductively and/or half-naked in TV musicals today in Nigeria can end up earning a better living – income wise especially – than those who choose to find a job based on their school qualifications, or even those who become entrepreneurs? This happens not because the latter career options don’t work, but because Nigerian society the ladies have to operate in gives LESS reward for them compared to the former.
- Why is it that over 80% of the world’s most celebrated sports achievers are from dirt poor homes that saw sports as an outlet to escape poverty, compared to formal schooling?
- Why is it OKAY for people who lose their parents in their formative years or who were born orphans to work in their free time to pay their way through school? I know persons who did that right here in Nigeria.
- Why do schools not giver financial education when the need to understand how to make money in and out of paid employment will be a determinant of how well do they do in adult lives. Especially when money and how much of it they have will tend to be the primary criterion on which they will be rated – regardless of any other positive qualities they possess?
- Why don’t schools teach selling/self marketing skills when the ability to sell and sell one’s self will be crucial to the ability of the student to achieve desired progress in or out of paid employment AFTER s/he completes schooling?
- If the products of Nigerian our formal schooling systems were doing so well in the large numbers they are being turned out, then why do we have armies of them roaming the streets with certificates in hand, looking for non-existent jobs, while being described by potential employers as unemployable?
- If the products of our conventional schools were doing so well in the real world, we would not have such growing number of kids unwilling to do the hard work of studying to pass exams without cheating.
- Why do we have kids who want the benefits accruable from having a qualification, but do not want to go through the required process to earn it? Why do they so eagerly “game” the system, in connivance with parents, teachers and examiners – the latter being the supposed custodian of the educational system being so raped?
- Have you noticed that the entertainment industry does NOT need laws or adverts to make adults of all ages eager to learn what it takes to partake and succeed in it. See Project Fame and other reality shows etc.
Our kids are being “taught” that being the most academically brilliant with the best grades does NOT matter as much as being willing to cut corners to get what you want.
They see what we do – and refuse to listen to what we say, because they know the latter is NOT true.
Evidence of this is seen in the fact that our TV/Radio and newspapers give superior coverage to news about celebrities in various fields that are often drop outs or poorly schooled.
If truth be told, would one need to force kids to study hard or attend school, like we did in our time, if they saw formally schooled people doing well in large numbers in society?
Case study: Shina Peter told his mum at age 8, that he no longer wished to attend school, choosing instead to live with and apprentice under Ebenezer Obey, so as to pursue his passion of learning to play the Guitar/music.
In a recent (2015) interview, Shina Peters was asked if he regretted not getting a formal education. He replied saying he had no regrets and that he had achieved so much success professionally and financially pursuing his dream as a self-taught musician that he employed well schooled persons, including PhD holders.
Now, THAT is a happy and fulfilled man speaking his mind right there. I believe BEING HAPPY AND FULFILLED is what matters most in life, and each of us as parents need to guide our kids to achieve that end.
Schooling is NOT an end. It is a means to an end – the end being each person’s definition of happiness and fulfillment.
A person’s creative genius is a crucial ingredient needed to achieve that optimal state of being. Any schooling system that does NOT enhance the learner’s ability to put that genius to use in achieving that state is NOT healthy for the child.
You have an obligation as a parent to challenge your society to do that for your child. If it does not, then you have a duty to find a way to fill in the gap created and if any damage is being done to your kid’s creativity, you must take steps to stop it.
This is what I have been doing for my kids, and I will continue to do it for them, showing them what matters, until I am sure they can carry on by themselves, taking necessary protective measures to preserve their creative genius.
What is your child’s genius? Do you know?
Many parents do NOT know that schooling is a means to an end, and NOT an end in itself.
That’s why they focus so much on “schooling” their kids, and pay little or no attention to EDUCATING their kids in readiness for real world relevant success outside school.
This is why we have so many people who leave school with brilliant grades and go on to struggle to make impact in life.
It is why (as Robert Kiyosaki notes in his book) we see C students becoming more successful and employing A students after they all leave school.
It is also why we see UNSCHOOLED persons or school drop outs doing far better in the real world than their schooled counterparts.
I argue, as a Best Practice Parenting Advocate, that a parent’s NUMBER ONE role in giving his/her child an education is NOT to pay school fees, uniforms, textbooks etc. Neither is it to pay for access to summer school and exams.
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The knowledge and understanding of subjects has no moral purpose. It may lead to discontent.
Education is not about ‘preparation for life’. Nor is testing about ‘preparation for the tests of life’. Education is not ‘about’ anything except education. Debates, lectures and discussions with the title ‘What is education for?’ are popular, but they embody an instrumental mistake about the nature of education: education is not for anything. It is an end in itself. If all the problems of economic and social life were solved and people did not even have to work, we would still seek knowledge. This is encapsulated in Socrates’ vision of eternal life as an endless series of conversations and debates with the greatest thinkers.
Read full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/our-voices/battle-of-ideas/education-is-not-for-anything-it-is-an-end-in-itself-8198029.html
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