| | The co-founder and chief executive of Nigerian fintech Flux says dropping out of college helped to pave the way for the launch of a new crypto payments company, one that has since been backed by ... www.cnbc.com |
I would say "dropping out of college helped" is a wrong and unimaginative way to put it. rather these young men worked out a different structure of education for themselves, created a vocational focus or concentration, established for themselves a singular goal and a specific profession and this they operationalized in the context of experiential and workplace/industry participation. getting their hands dirty, working in real life work/industry context, dealing with and learning from their failures and successes in real life; inserting themselves in a network of people in the same industry, they thereby gained expertise in the trade and all this translates to the fruit that is currently been advertised.
The polytechnics and universities that would answer to the current problems of many a African nation must be based on creative and innovative ideas that break from the classical education model. The latter are rather getting outdated for Africa and even Western countries have themselves been rethinking, remaking and tinkering with this old model in significant respects. Some of such creative ideas for educating African students could be sourced from within the traditional knowledge systems of Africa. I aspire in the near future to establish such an institution that is largely patterned after the traditional African apprenticeship system of education. Keep an eye out; and if you are an investor I might have some very bold, daring, and reasonable proposal for you to consider very soon.
These young people, and there are many of them doing such breaking out successfully, are an inspiration.
Femi J. Kolapo | Department of History | www.uoguelph.ca/history
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A thought for the month:
| We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way [Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, p. 86] |
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