I always find it interesting when one is asked to ponder or debate something that will continue to exist despite whatever is said about it. When all is said and done, there will be people who exhibit the ability to laugh at themselves and there will be others who do not exhibit that ability. With
Developing Development, Making the World a Happier Place
I have been educated in two countries: Switzerland and the UK. If I could change one thing about the education in these places it would have to be the amount of knowledge taught about the developing countries of today and their on-going, as well as decreasing, poverty. In my last years of high school I
If there was one thing I could change to improve education in my country…
Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy reading habits institutionalised. Majority just enlist into various schools. Many have graduated. They are all for the obtainment of certificates. This habit is causing our country harm. Half-baked educated people dot the streets. Reading of books isn’t taken
Education is not the filling of a pail
I can vividly say emphatically that I strongly agree with the quote that education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal and it must have generated a lot of controversies among the global populace. But I belief this is one of a harmful
In the Future, Children will still use pencils
Without mincing words I can vividly say that children will still use pencils in the future. This is as a result of it continuous usefulness and it properties. People might said, we are in the age of globalization in which all the world is a stage as put by William Shakespeare, but that does not
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” by Albert Einstein
Knowledge is very important don’t get me wrong, but Without imagination, there would be no new ideas or inventions or nothing new will ever happen at all because every idea or invention or anything new comes from imagination. Look out of your window. What do you see out there? Roads, houses, parks maybe? Whatever you
If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country…
With regard to the given topic, if there was one thing I could do to improve the education system in my country, I would introduce and initiate the policy of free primary, secondary and tertiary or university education. Presumably, if I was the president or the minister for education. A case study of Kenya, a
PENCILS TO PIXELS
Most people will tell you we have five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, but we have six. Feeling, it’s completely different from touching because to feel something it doesn’t even have to be there and I think the age range that are the best at feeling are children. To feel you have to
The function of education
We must agree to give more importance to education than just earning money. We mean, what about those of us who don’t see “the Money only” as our primary motivator? What about art and music and the love of nature? What about creativity and ethics? Doesn’t education have some inherent value apart from future earning
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
The enduring advancement in scientific innovation and the irresistible potentialities of technology are transforming how we acquire and share knowledge, our understanding of what constitutes educational materials, and the key learning skills we will need to be successful learners. Yesterday, there were no books. Today, books fill libraries and house vast knowledge. What tomorrow holds
In the future, people will cease to own books
Why do people read books? People read books for so many reasons but essentially, books are read for either knowledge or entertainment. As long as the saying, ‘learning never ends’ holds, then people will always read to know. The prediction that people may cease to own books in the future does not necessarily indicate that
Understanding the words for the heart
“Gaining knowledge through education is not a great issue to bother with if the language isn’t a barrier”. This is a deep belief of every parent in bringing up their child as an educated person. That’s why a child gifted with languages studies from an early age. Most of the knowledge spread today remains only
Books Are Here To Stay
The world is evolving really fast in various aspects. Radical trends in technology, culture, fashion, transport, civilization, modes of communication-just to mention a few-are very incredible. All the same, they are worth endorsing and appreciating. I was reading the best selling novel ‘The Digital Dead’ in my bedroom a couple of weeks ago. Although I
The Future of Books. Either Ways!
Introduction: The development stops here To impart knowledge, in the long ago past, Homo sapiens established some strokes, and later, combined them into readable letters, and, this not being enough, at some point in time, they began to inscribe the words on stone, temple walls, tombs, and so on. The development grows bigger until an
The New Page of Future
“So many books, so little time.” – Frank Zappa Books are life of every people, life of past and future and life of the whole world. Without books, people will have hard time to share knowledge, to share experience and to share life. In fact, in world history, books became the weapon of authors to
A world without printed books – what good and evil may come from this?
When an individual happens to read and contemplate upon this statement, I’m pretty sure that a kind of “creepy sensation” spontaneously germinates in his/her mind. In fact, this statement itself seems a metaphorically thought-provoking and truth-oriented prediction having both positive and negative far-reaching consequences. We have acknowledged that education is one of the backbones of
In The Future, People Will Cease to Hold Books
To start with, a 2003 survey conducted by a company called the Jenkins Group produced some statistics which have been quoted in books, blog posts and newspaper articles, stating that “One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives, 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after
Do not speak in vernacular
“Do not speak in vernacular”. That was my first challenge in my first year of secondary school. My joy knew no bound as I was admitted into secondary school at a very tender age compared to my colleagues then. I was the local champion in my primary and I had boasted that I would be
Education Devoid of Values Makes Man a Cleverer Devil
Education is the system of formal teaching and learning. It is the acquisition of basic knowledge, skills and developing the body and mind while values are rather mental discipline, social efficiency and realization of standards considered worthwhile. One needs not be told that education fetches one power, admiration and respect. In the world today, one
Touch Their Hearts, Make Them Love Learning
It made a very deep impression on me when I first came across the quote from Nelson Mandela, “If you talk to a man in a language he understand, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”. Implied in Mandela’s quote were my teaching experiences