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Boom, the foundation in believing Education is still the key to success is gradually shaking and making people have this self-doubt if they are actually doing the right thing, spending all those huge sum of money just to get a certificate that might be of no use in future, people are really weighing if they should get educated or just spend the money in building up their skills or just getting into business. I still remember how my dad use to make us get really serious with out books, and if you slack behind, you will be punished, you dare not play around when it is reading time and he will always say focus on your books and pass with good grade so you can be a successful person in future and they will say, you see people like dangote, Otedola, they focus on their education which made them successful, we believed but now we realize it isn't the whole truth. With what I have witness so far, I can't say Education is the key to success but a path to it, it is important to be educated because that give you the forefront to what ever you need to do after.
When it come to the Educational System straight down to Employment, it is rotten, Back then in school, I was too serious with studies, no side hustle just books, some of my mate were busy doing some side business then one day, a lady came late to lecture hall and my lecture ask why, she said business, this man said a lot of awful stuff to her and the one I picked was "your parent sent you to school to study and not to do business", had to think on that particular statement. Why are we really in school if not to learn the basic and gain knowledge on how to be successful which end product is to make money which she is doing why learning, so why was he angry ( well I couldn't ask him though). One reason why education isn't a key to success in this part of the world is the fact that the rate of Unemployment is very high, every year the country produce vast number of graduate but there are little work in place, it saddened the heart because only few get employed and most have no choice but to start learning skills which they ought to learn while in school, just to survive, people have now engage in petty job which is out of what they learn in school just to survive, like they say Heaven help those who help themselves.
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The most painful part is the Underemployment, almost 70% of graduate are really underpaid, it bring up the question why spending that much in school anyway, with a good certificate, your pay after working effortlessly in a month is nothing to write home about, I can't even imagine how someone getting less than 30$ as salary will survive in this economy, A friend of mine who work all day and only spend less than 6hours at home was getting 100k as salary, the day he was complaining to me, I had to take my calculator just to calculate everything, he spend 2k daily on transport and that is even half of his salary, if he get to at least manage to eat once a day, all that will be left isn't up to 10$, that still make me reason if education is the key to success or just a path to survival.
Nowadays, even those who aren't that educated make it more than the educated ones nowadays, we want to follow the normal process, go to school, graduate, look for job in the legit way, but them they don't mind doing anything, even most of the leaders in power aren't educated that much, most have just school sat and they are leading the educated ones, they fill most of the top position with their kinds, while using the some of the educated ones who just want to survive and won't mind doing anything to achieve that as their tools to fight off anyone that want to go against their wish. Right now and with want is going on, the key to success isn't education but just a means to survive or just a path.