In the real world, both theoretical knowledge and practical skills matter.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. Trust me when I say there are schools that you will attend that will impact your life in ways too numerous to mention, schools that will leave you with both practical skills and theoretical knowledge you need to survive. There are schools in which the management team has foresight, and they prepare kids for the future by offering them both practical skills and theoretical knowledge that will see them through life. Trust me, when you have both practical skills and theoretical knowledge, your sail through life will be totally different from that of those who only have theoretical knowledge or only practical skills. A combination of both will take you quite far.

There are still schools that, if you attend, will leave you with little or no practical skill; instead, they will keep taking from you in the sense that their school fee might be very high, but they are not giving you value for your money. I had friends who attended schools that gave them value for their money; from junior high school 3 (JSS3), they were taught how to wire a house on introductory technology and how to wire a board (can be used for charging services, Nigerians will understand better). They went on field trips, and every student was asked the field they would venture into when they got to senior secondary school 1 (SS1), and in JSS3, third term, their practical classes focused more on the field they chose; if the student chose science, then their skill acquisition would focus more on science-related things.

Then there is us, who my school did not even care much about practical skills; all they wanted was to feed us with theoretical knowledge. The only practical skills my school offered were home economics and under home economics; all they had was crocheting and cooking that was the only two sections, and then as guys we declined to learn that and focused more on the theoretical knowledge, while many of the girls took crocheting classes seriously and some took the cooking classes seriously. It was mandatory to do one of the two before you were promoted to the next class; whether you fail or not, you will be promoted, but you just have to be involved.

When it was time, I chose cooking since it was better than crocheting since we felt crocheting should be for the ladies and we guys could manage cooking. I cooked, and the home economics teacher rejected my food after tasting it 😂; even I would have rejected that salty food 😂. My aim was to just participate so I could move to the next class. We finished high school, graduated, and while thinking of a way forward, those who attended a school that had foresight and those girls from my school who took their skill acquisition classes seriously were able to make money from the skill acquired while in school, while the rest of us who felt crocheting was for ladies were still depending on our parents for everything since the theoretical knowledge we acquired could not be applied anywhere yet unless you wanted to apply for a teaching job.

It was at that point that I realized that, in the real world, both practical skills and theoretical knowledge are needed, and kids in school should be equipped with both to help them face the real world.

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