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.
I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt
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