Imagine if you were trained to fish in a stream, then sent out to the forest to hunt for a lion
This is exactly what is happening in most global education system today, and moreso in my beloved country Nigeria
I have observed that many Nigerian schools simply share information (both researched and unresearched) to its students
(Some of our science modules still have Pluto has the 9th planet when this has been found to be untrue)
Its students try hard to memorize as much of this information as possible so as to pass their exams and get certified
The students graduate and try to use the paper certificates as tools for jobs without much success
When we go to the West to learn, what they have available, and teach us is the knowledge that should be useful in their environment.
We then come back to Nigeria and try applying such knowledge without much success. So we scream and say that the system is not structured. For those of us that get into any form of employment, we make little attempts to make our environment as structured as the West so that the theories that we have learnt can work
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