RE: Practical Over Theory - My Idea For Education System

It's sad that we do very little or no practicals for courses that requires lots of it. I studied microbiology but we only had very few good compound microscopes in the department. In the whole country I doubt if we even have any transmission electron microscope (TEM).

I was fortunate to learn most of what I was taught in school during my IT days, I did it in National Veterinary Research Institute in Jos which had so many facilities and members of staff who were more than willing to teach us.

I won't completely blame the lecturers because most of them don't even know how to carry out most of the practical either due to lack of facilities or due to nonchalant attitude towards it.

I presented a result from an analysis I did using real-time PCR my supervisor got upset and told me to repeat the work just because she didn't have the slightest idea on how qPCR works. I had to call the Dr in charge where I did the lab work to explain to her because she was not ready to listen to me.

Anyone who can formulate a medical result is just being evil in my own opinion. The fact that you think you have years of experience and assumes that the result is always the same only indicates the person has not yet fully understood what research is all about. Imagine giving a false result just because one assumes the result is "always" the same, I see it as indirect murder.