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From: Fola Arthur-Worrey <folaaw@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:39:57 +0100
To: <ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com>
Subject: Reversing the rot
Sir, a very perceptive article examining critically the tragic "dumbing down" of a once promising nation. Personally I think it is too late to do much because so much has gone wrong, but can't we at least identify the few bright sparks amongst our children and give them an elite education, especially in the sciences and grounded in philosophy and the development of good judgment and discernment which is sadly lacking today? Even if there are only a thousand of them we would at least be creating a leadership elite like Eton and Harrow do in the UK. The greatest harm done to Nigeria's education system was the mass take-over of mission schools in the seventies by the Obasanjo led government and their being given into the woefully incompetent hands of ministries of education and teacher services commissions. This mindless policy destroyed in one fell swoop centuries of tradition and institutional memory about how best to holistically educate a child. And of course it was the failure of the elite, produced by these same institutions to protect them that facilitated the disastrous policy. In addition and as you pointed out, too many so-called experts and overly profuse conversation, which we revel in as a substitute for the real hard work required for nation building, and the religious and ethnic infection of the whole process.
Please keep writing...someday, somewhere, a person of authority may listen.
Fola Arthur-Worrey
Please keep writing...someday, somewhere, a person of authority may listen.
Fola Arthur-Worrey
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