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The mindset

Context: On a certain occasion, I was to travel from Abakaliki to Ishiagu. Both locations are in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Somehow, a family member offered to give me a ride: from Abakaliki to my destination. The journey was a smooth one, without any hitch. We travelled in a Mercedes Benz car, model 200. I was

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‘Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil’. – C.S Lewis

In order to fully evaluate this statement, it is necessary to break it down to its core elements. Education, by itself, provides many benefits.  It is easy to see that without education, the opportunities available to you in life are limited and that there is a correlation between the standard of education and one’s standing

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The book is dead (again). Long live the book

“Books are the most dynamic things in history. Nations have gone to war over them. Civilizations have been decimated to extirpate a single text. And yet always something escapes and goes forward, something elusive that is indigenous to the book, that vanishes and surfaces again after the storms have passed, like the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela

To quote Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “Education is the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process.” It also prepares one for the ability of reasoning and judging, readying one to face the “world”. It’s the foundation of

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A picture of what education should be in the 21st century

Education is not knowledge due to possession, but knowledge due to motion. Education is not how much data a memory can save, but which data will be open for use. Education is not the heart, but the soul of civilized societies passed through generations. Child education In African societies and many societies across the world,

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