Learning Center Turned Race Lane
Schools should be a place to acquire knowledge and not an arena for competition. So many headlines flying up and down recently about how people bag first degree, second degree and so on and for sure, this is a great news everyone would actually celebrate because it takes a whole lot to be out of our local universities with such good grades.
You won't be a graduate with such great grades and not have your story of hardwork and resilience spirit, denying yourself of some social life unlike your co-students, just to achieve that which you aimed at.
I remember back in higher institution, we had this course which everyone was so frightened about. Even the efiko (most intelligent) in class had to study hard for this course let alone average brain student, lol.
We would organize tutorials of both day and night, depending on how critical the situation of the course is. We studied so hard, skipped meals and our rightful owned sleep just to ensure that we have a good grade in the course while some would just wish that, even if it is "let my people go" score (40) they are given, they are still okay than to get below and fail the course. At the end of it all, some still found themselves weeping and wailing on seeing their results when they are pasted.
All these pressures mostly do originally affect student cos there's a limit to how we should even stress our brains even though it's meant to be exercised and the main call for concern is that, is this whole pressure causing people to learn or just to pass and get good grades.
Just like some course mates would say back then when exams are approaching and they have a particular course they have no interest in or they don't understand. They will say "I just wan read to pass am". Is this actually the original motive and mission behind education?
Aside from the economy not been okay for graduates to secure jobs after school, most top students in school actually do not carry the knowledge and intelligence they had in school outside the school gate let alone labour market. Is it even when most of the curriculums are filled with irrelevant courses that do not relate with what students are meant to face in the outside world, outside the 4 walls of the school.
The competition for grades has now become so bad that students could go to any length to get it. Either live on drugs to concentrate, sleep lecturers to get grades, exercise different angles of malpractices and at the end compete with those who are out of these circles.
I've seen someone who actually had ulcer due to continuous skipping of meals and improper diet because she was studying hard. At times I wonder and asked.... Is it really worth it to this level? That you have to put your life at risk
I love to excel at what I do but what I won't do is going way beyond that I get to regret my actions later.
We all crave for success but how we go about achieving the success is important cos the joy of every success been achieved is to stay alive and be celebrated for it in ones presence not in absence.
To sum it up, everyone should know their limits, capacities and boundaries. The size of food I can take is not what my Taiwo can take and so I can't make a competition of food with her. Trying to have one with her will definitely cause me constipation and I'll get to suffer the pains that comes with it alone.
SO MAYBE ITS NOT ABOUT THE SCHOOL BUT ABOUT THE STUDENT KNOWING BOUNDARIES, THEIR CAPACITIES AND LIMITS.
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I learnt pretty late in my life that I was actually learning to pass at some point in my life instead of learning to know and that cost me time. Unfortunately, most of our kids are learning to pass because teachers have made school a war zone for students.
This affected everyone and it will be rare before you see anyone being free from this table
Very true
The truth is that many students are mainly reading to pass not for learning sake, there are some topics I did in university that I can remember anymore because I only read them just to pass those courses
Exactly what most students go through. Most things vacates our head as soon as we own down the last paper as a graduate
You're right about that ma'am, I can say you've said it all. That's just the reality. The motive of most is just to pass, nothing else. Not learning to know or understand. That's why a lot do various stuffs just to come out with good grades.
Thanks for sharing.
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What are we competing for exactly.
there were some courses i studied in school and I barely remember now because i only read to pass.
More like struggling to survive.
I love reading but i stopped loving it when i got to higher institution my micro biology lecturer will let us know that in her exam we must explain her questions to details or fail. And we have 2 hrs to answer 5 questions in the exam hall. In the end the examiner will rush us and we will have to submit before it's even 2 hrs and that's because we have 2 more exam to write that same day. so they don't care, they never helped whether we pass or fail they are less concern.
So tell me why situations like this won't affect the students. I will have to study for 3 hard courses and seat for the exam in a day.
At first i thought institutions will make things better but my school, especially during my first year we wrote 10 courses within 1 week.
We had to protest because the rate of carry overs then was becoming too much.
My first semester result wasn't bad thanks to Mr french for the carryover 😂😂
A course that i don't even need.
Hmmm imagine! Still had carryover on a borrowed course
The pressure is just too much and it's unnecessary and not needed.
Imagine writing 3 core courses exam in the same day, and they will still bring the exam scripts late but on completion of 2hrs, invigilator collects scripts from students
As a fresher i wasn't use to the system. My first experience, I cried and refused to eat after the exams. The stress is overwhelming. Some lecturers who are very strict with marking will score you 39 what is 1 mark you can't give to a student ( LET MY PEOPLE GO).
this happened to me first semester in my final year for a 0 unit course. But it still affect my result.
Mind you, the carryover is not for free. 😔😔 Thinking about it make me feel sad. They were experience i will never forget. Let's not talk about those who pass through all this and couldn't sign out because they are no more.