The dangers of modern education cannot be overemphasised. Researchers haveproven that academic curriculum and learning contradict the skills needed for students to succeed outside the academic environment. Our education system is based on stereotyping people and so is our society.
What the current system persuades us to believe is that we should conform rather than innovate, which retards the progress of the whole generation. Students after graduation often find themselves incompetent. This is because the studentsare unskilled but lack capacity. Our institutions are only concerned about gradesso students have this mindset to “just read to pass” because their lecturers only care about grades. A student’s knowledge is determined by his ability to solve societal ills.
Being graded all the time is actually crippling students. People learn the most from their mistakes, but mistakes are the worst things one could do in the context of contemporary institutions. And the best way to get good grades is to innovate for community development.
Students can, and should spend much of their time thinking critically, analyzing information instead of just learning it, do real things and develop their talents for the future. The world is filled with people of good academic grade but yet to be successful in life. Therefore, there is a need for the education system to be reviewed critically towards building a system that will foster individual who know how to push the progress of humanity forward.
Godiya Pindar,
300 Level Student,
Department of Mass Communication,
University of Maiduguri.
