What is life without purpose? If all men lived just for the sake of living, without visions, dreams, aspirations and goals, why should I, for instance, task myself to write this essay in the first place? Imagine great minds whose lives were driven by a vision such as Leonardo Da Vinci drew no paintings nor
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A United World
Imagine living in an entirely, homogenised world, where you belonged to the one and only species alive on the face of the planet. If you only knew about yourself and others like you, how could you ever broaden your horizons? In my opinion, school is one of the most important places, where students can be
Why Expressing the Indescribable is of Primary Importance for Young People
Arts and sciences; it seems that educational representatives, and indeed, politics has aided in the drawing of battle lines between the two, trying to measure the importance of each to both education and our lives in general. The ‘core’ academic subjects, such as maths and the sciences, have always been viewed as the holy grail
Living Your Vision
Everyone is trying to construct and make their lives right yet it is not enough. The question is, where is your target? Focus? Is it truly in line with what you want to achieve? Some of us are like constructors who want to put up a building without a blue print. This can only result
The Igniting Power of Imagination: Education Through the Arts
By envisioning the school of the future, I sense that the traditional educational system might not be enough to prepare the youth to handle the future, if it doesn’t contemplate the Arts as an integrated part of the school curriculum. The reason is simple: the more the world progresses, diversified, well technologically connected and fast,
A Teacher’s Letter To Her Former Student
Dear Mr. Green Machine, The instructions were both concise and clear: a line drawing of a bridge, one large sheet of white paper, charcoal. We discussed and explored line, depth, structure, colour, features and shapes. You nodded enthusiastically in agreement when I asked if everyone understood the task. We looked at the enlarged photographs of
A Dilemma that Must be Solved
It was about 9:10 am or so on that Monday morning and I was hurrying to catch up with my 10:00 am statistics lecture. Along the corridor of Hall-2, very close to Hall-3, the venue for the lecture, I heard a shattering noise that jolted me to a halt. Looking around, I saw a group
Moulding the social behaviour of students: the role of schools as agents of socialization and institutions of learning
At the convocation ceremony of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, it is typical to hear the Vice Chancellor use the phrase “having been found worthy in character and learning” when conferring degrees and diplomas on the graduating students. While this is true of many other institutions of higher learning as well, it hugely underscores the
Winnowing the Society’s Moral Fabric
Parents, the world over send their children to schools and universities to get an education. In the minds of all these parents is a dream, to bring up all round children that will eventually grow into self-reliant adults. This mission can only be achieved if the child is able to acquire knowledge, skills, values, beliefs
Be an Inspiration for Good Behaviour
Looking at the title we may think: what is the need for teaching social behavior? First of all, what is social behavior? ‘Social behavior is a term used to describe the general conduct exhibited by an individual within the society’. This type of behavior determines how individuals interact with one another within society. Lack of
The Importance of the Art of Education
“The arts are of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.” Philip Pullman Education can be understood as the art of imparting knowledge, ideas, skills and judgment of facts that have been learnt either formally or informally. This art is of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human
The Art (or the science) of Perfect Balance
The Split: separation of artist and scientist My proudest memory of primary school was the day the headmaster came to our classroom to read the class a story that I had written. He particularly liked my use of the words ‘murky’ and ‘blushed’; interesting vocabulary makes good stories, he said. If he’d been more familiar
The Role of Arts in Education
The lines of Philip Pullman are so very true that “Arts are of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being”. Art is of paramount importance according to my personal view. Art is the only reason behind the evolution of man. Art has played an integral role in making a human being
The Lifeblood of Society
The Lord of the Rings. Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Pride and Prejudice. The Taj Mahal. All have the power to touch us, shake us and stir us. Each one, and every other piece of art, whether formalised as that or unrecognised, has the power to reach out to us and form a connection. To tie an
Vision Without Execution is Just Hallucination
It’s so amazing, an initiative that most parents take their children to school with the sole aim of making their future bright. What majority fail to understand is that the fact that they have send their children to school and paid fees, alongside providing their sons and daughters with basic needs is not just enough.
The Dilemma of Gender Segregation in Schools
Gender segregation in schools has been a question in the minds of many, especially those caught in between the choice to take their children to gender mixed schools or to the single gender ones. Before the fight for equality between men and women began gender segregation was not much of an issue as each party
Without birthing ideas the world would remain stagnant
INTRODUCTION An idea is when a thing is conceived in someone’s mind with a drive toward a particular purpose or goal. Ideas are great. Anybody can have an idea. Everybody can say what they feel about something. But not everybody has the capacity or will to implement it. “The world is going globalized and only
We are Humans
The policy on gender segregation in a school arises in a situation whereby the authorities of a school allows the enrolment of male and female students into its fold, but such students permitted to relate only with fellow students who are of the same sex as them. This practice of gender segregation in schools is
How schools can be better potters
There may be as many varied definitions of the term “education” as there were varieties of sports at the 2016 Olympic Games. Summarising the key words in those definitions however, one can describe education as a systematic process of facilitating learning and honing skills, beliefs and values to cause individuals to develop personally, so that
Issues in implementing vision and policy in the developing countries: emphasis on economic policy
Introduction Ideally, it is the dream of every young child to become great and fulfilled in life; enterprises or businesses are targeted towards maximizing profits and minimizing costs to the lowest level; large scale businesses are established with the belief of existing into the unforeseeable future; every family dreams of giving birth and raising fruitful