And because our career dreams are
functionally the same, i.e. a steady job in civil service, we have as many
people without jobs as there are jobs without people, despite our many talents
and impressive college education, and I believe this points to a lack, defect,
failing, or all of the above in our education system.
Ours is so academic, its
practical importance is borderline... by it we take school for the sole source
and referent of the term education, 'mansakunda dokuwo' the only source of
employment. So we all go in there not just to satisfy our intellectual
curiosities, but to be programmed with the same software. And because people
are different, the software when incompatible becomes malware, evidently.
I'm not an educationist and I'm
not pretending to be one. But I needn't be one to know that the word 'educate'
is derived from the Latin word 'educo,' meaning to educe - to bring out, to
draw out, and to develop from within. So if you call yourself educated and you
cannot use it to power up your talent or turn on someone else's, but rather let
your talent turn on you, yours isn't education, 'ejukenseng' (butt-naked) more
like.
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