Everyone knows the importance of formal education to the human race, even those who did not attain any educational qualification. This explains why most parents who never saw the four walls of a school want to ensure that they leave an inheritance of education for their children.
Education is the bedrock on which the growth and advancement of the world is etched. Man would still have been living like a barbarian; a hard, brutish and short life, were it not for education.
The indices of the world’s growth and advancement favour only countries that have advanced the quality of their educational systems and given all to ensure that all their citizens get the best education at the most affordable cost.
Nigeria has remained mired in backwardness and mediocrity since its independence simply because the leaders of the country, especially the current Federal Government, whether by deliberate act of negligence or by ignorance and denial, have underdeveloped the education system resulting in a far larger segment of the citizens not having any education or having so little which does not enable them to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of the country.
The Nigerian educational system has become a paradox, exposing the disdain the country’s leaders have for the citizens.
They send their children to schools abroad and flaunt their graduation photos on social media, forgetting that the leaders of those countries developed the schools their children enjoyed.
They also prefer the certificates from those foreign schools, denigrating the certificates produced by our own schools even when they are aware that they are to blame for the ugly state of the schools.
Ironically, Nigerians who leave the shores of this country to study after obtaining their primary and secondary education show more sterling qualities in performance and excellence.
President Muhammadu Buhari told the world recently that the only thing he would bequeath to his biological children is education.
He made the statement at a time when all universities in the country have been on strike for over six months. His statement appeared like a slap in the face of these students who have been idling away at home while their counterparts, children of the leaders, have had uninterrupted schooling sessions in foreign countries.
The President ought to apologize to the students whom he has grossly disappointed against the backdrop of the promises he made to them when he was elected in 2015.
Written by TONY OKAFOR/
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