Monthly Archives: March 2010

I hit heard grouping feature it over and over again that activity is ease of primary value. And ignorance has been and is ease a enthusiastic disease. This is because; it is exclusive activity that crapper contribute to the immunity of the intellect and the possibility of realizing our socio-cultural and spiritual aspirations. I hit practically seen the beatific lateral of education, such that I hit come up with an advocacy assemble on education. Building beatific educational backgrounds is beatific for the society. I was a beneficiary of the schools built by one of the religionist heroes of our time, if not the greatest of them, Bishop carpenter Shanahan. He came to Africa with a religionist strategy popularly known as \”the school method\”. Bishop Shanahan came, saw and conquered. He noticed how coercive and important activity crapper be. He was a Negro that saw tomorrow. He knew that activity would be the key to the opening of many other religionist avenues, and so definite to build his ministry upon it.

In the areas he opened schools; he warded off local slave dealers and thus guaranteed the safety and liberty of the school children. Again from the knowledge acquired in the school, pattern as an institution stood on a dangerous periphery, so with other offensive evils same human sacrifice, killing of twins and women segregation, etc. Not exclusive these, he believed so much that, with children in school, well Christianized, paganism module receive a deadly blow. The schools he established were for children mainly but the principle was: \”Get the children and through them get their parents\”. The importance of schools crapper never be over emphasized. The saying has been popularized: \”If activity is costly, essay ignorance\”.

However, it has long been established that not all that goes for activity is rattling education. Not everything that goes by the name ‘school’ is rattling school. In the society today, every unfinished building is a school. Every community has a school – secondary/commercial or nursery. The discourse then is: Is the presence of these many schools a positive sign of forthcoming literary culture and forthcoming civilized society? What do all these ‘schools’ contribute? Are whatever of these so called schools not conception of the many aborning small scale industries set up by whatever clever ones only to put embody and feeling together?

Most of these proliferating schools founded today are the so-called vocational schools where the students and all of us too are made to believe in the belief (if not theology) of self-reliance and self-sustenance. Self-employment if you like. This is perfectly true when a vocational school is true to its name.