Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] Re: WAEC 2015: Abia and Anambra States top WAEC Ranking–See List

Tell them!

olakassimmd via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:


Pa Ezeana:

There are times when it is inappropriate to gloat

in public over one's successes especially when there are others

in the audience who are less fortunate.

At least 32% of the students in Abia and Anambra the two best performing states

in the 2015 WAEC who

despite 'having the appetite and the food for education' as you implied

also did not get enough credits to have 'passed' the WAEC exams,

if the benchmark is the minimum requirement for admission to a university.

The goal of education in Nigeria should not necessarily be to have each and every'student

get enough credits so he or she could attend university. The goal of the educational system

should be to train all students in a manner that maximizes their potentials so that they could

use their natural abilities to pursue vocations in all fields of life.

Nigeria, just like all other countries in the world need not only university graduates--but also

less well formally educated graduates who have obatined requisite skills in carpentry, bricklayering,

farming, crane operators, tool and dye and other vocations and fields of life. A world full of only university graduates, most of whom only push

pen and paper would be a boring, unhappy and economically unproductive world.

Bye,

Ola

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Sent: Sat, Feb 6, 2016 8:39 am
Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Re: WAEC 2015: Abia and Anambra States top WAEC Ranking–See List

Education is like food. Some have the appetite but no food, as those students who really want to go to school but can't because they can't even afford the fees to take the entrance exams. Then there are those who have the food but not the appetite, talking about Yobe and Katsina and Osun. But thank God and the gods for folks who have the appetite and the food: Abia, Anambra in Igbo land. I am going to drink to that. No wonder Biafra is a done deal. 

And I am

Ezeana Igirigi Achusim

Odi-Isaa

Nwa Dim Orioha AkA Onyeukwu 

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On Feb 6, 2016, at 5:20 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

My People:

Here is an example below of how ALUMNI can change the face of their SECONDARY SCHOOL - Methodist High School, Ilesa:

If the state or federal government were to institute an an annual revolving multi-billion-naira ALUMNI-MATCHING FUND - one-third to be spent in secondary schools, and two-thirds in universities -  whereby for every one-naira spent by alumni, the federal government would add one- or two-naira until all the funds are EXHAUSTED in a given year, you will see many alumni fall over themselves to chip in.

And t

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