I was reading through the questions on the popular Question & Answer website called Quora this morning when I found the question:
What happens to the future careers of the students who pass examinations by cheating?
The question got me thinking as there are lots of students that would rather cheat to get a good grade than to fail and have a chance to re-take the examination.
Reading through the answers to the question, I found one of the answers to be a disturbing truth about the education system in Nigeria.
Here Is The Answer:
A University professor wrote an expressive message to his students at the doctorate, master and bachelor levels and placed it at the entrance to a university in South Africa.
And this is the message:
Collapsing any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long-range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinations by the students.
- The patient dies in the hands of the doctor who passed his exams through cheating.
- And the buildings collapse in the hands of an engineer who passed his exams through cheating.
- And the money is lost in the hands of an accountant who passed his exams through cheating.
- And humanity dies in the hands of a religious scholar who passed his exams through cheating.
- And justice is lost in the hands of a judge who passed his exams through cheating.
- And ignorance is rampant in the minds of children who are under the care of a teacher who passed exams through cheating.
"The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation"*☹
The answer above got me thinking seriously. So many of those things are already happening in Nigeria. We have quacks everywhere, even in key positions in the Government.
Today, the question and answer make me understand the grave consequences of examination malpractice to any Nation. I kept asking myself this simple question:
Is Nigeria Gradually Collapsing?