Education and Success
Today, I was thinking on the success rate of many Africans in the world today. When I was in Secondary and High School the mentality of success was based on school performance and conduct. Many students who performed highly and had good conduct at the time were seen as future high achievers vice-verse.
It is evident that our behavior and choices shapes the future but the reverse is true, at this tender period much is still to be learned and therefore life is not a game of chess where you can predict your opponents moves. In Africa we believe the best is given to those who perform well in school but in the wide world success is guaranteed to those who can afford a good Education and pursue their dreams.
In Africa high performing students are motivated with career praise from teachers such as careers in Medicine, Engineering, Aviation, etc while the low achievers are lost in the sadness of their failure. Some time back I came into contact with a correspondent from Phoenix East Aviation and asked him what it took to become a pilot or have career in aviation? The reply was very shocking, the advise I got was that I needed a High School Degree of Diplomat. Secondly, I needed to be able to afford my education. Whereas in my country the high achieving students grow up with high prospects of becoming Doctors, Nurses, Pilots, Engineers etc which requires Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology making it impossible to literally migrate from one system of eduction to another. When students graduate from high school they realize the world is different because they depended on their intellect so much that they forgot the high cost of affording education for an A class job.
In developed countries, there is the possibility to study and have your dream career because of the believe in equal educational opportunities, many immigrants from my country who traveled abroad have excelled in science careers whereas they where Arts inclined back in their countries of origin which will not even permit them to study out of their . I believe individuals should be given equal opportunities to succeed such as choosing your career and affording the education.
Many parents in Africa send their kids to expensive Boarding and Private schools which offer the same quality of education as the Government Schools with the objective of breeding kids with responsible character, good eduaction etc. With this in mind the economic standard of many families are below average. I believe parents should make a wiser choice between the Private and Government schools. Government schools should be a priority in that the tuition fee is affordable giving room for more savings and living standard. More money should be spent on career schools such as Law School, Medicine School, Engineering School etc rather than Primary, Secondary and High School education.
On the aspect of parents having savings accounts for their kids career education is a very essential point in the area of job creation by graduates, because the government does not offer loans to students to pursue their further their education every graduate is on the dependent on government for employment and very little on job creation is done on the part of the educated.
To crown these words, any graduate from Harvard Law School, Georgia Tech, MIT may have a variety of jobs to chose from but a graduate from the best known Boarding schools (Secondary and High Schools) may still drown in the ocean of unemployment.
It is evident that our behavior and choices shapes the future but the reverse is true, at this tender period much is still to be learned and therefore life is not a game of chess where you can predict your opponents moves. In Africa we believe the best is given to those who perform well in school but in the wide world success is guaranteed to those who can afford a good Education and pursue their dreams.
In Africa high performing students are motivated with career praise from teachers such as careers in Medicine, Engineering, Aviation, etc while the low achievers are lost in the sadness of their failure. Some time back I came into contact with a correspondent from Phoenix East Aviation and asked him what it took to become a pilot or have career in aviation? The reply was very shocking, the advise I got was that I needed a High School Degree of Diplomat. Secondly, I needed to be able to afford my education. Whereas in my country the high achieving students grow up with high prospects of becoming Doctors, Nurses, Pilots, Engineers etc which requires Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology making it impossible to literally migrate from one system of eduction to another. When students graduate from high school they realize the world is different because they depended on their intellect so much that they forgot the high cost of affording education for an A class job.
In developed countries, there is the possibility to study and have your dream career because of the believe in equal educational opportunities, many immigrants from my country who traveled abroad have excelled in science careers whereas they where Arts inclined back in their countries of origin which will not even permit them to study out of their . I believe individuals should be given equal opportunities to succeed such as choosing your career and affording the education.
Many parents in Africa send their kids to expensive Boarding and Private schools which offer the same quality of education as the Government Schools with the objective of breeding kids with responsible character, good eduaction etc. With this in mind the economic standard of many families are below average. I believe parents should make a wiser choice between the Private and Government schools. Government schools should be a priority in that the tuition fee is affordable giving room for more savings and living standard. More money should be spent on career schools such as Law School, Medicine School, Engineering School etc rather than Primary, Secondary and High School education.
On the aspect of parents having savings accounts for their kids career education is a very essential point in the area of job creation by graduates, because the government does not offer loans to students to pursue their further their education every graduate is on the dependent on government for employment and very little on job creation is done on the part of the educated.
To crown these words, any graduate from Harvard Law School, Georgia Tech, MIT may have a variety of jobs to chose from but a graduate from the best known Boarding schools (Secondary and High Schools) may still drown in the ocean of unemployment.
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