Taking a deep look at the whole essence
of everything else, except students, that makes up a formal school, include:
teachers, classrooms, laboratories, libraries, textbooks, lesson notes, tables,
chairs, gardens, sports complex, instructional materials, chalkboard or whiteboard,
interactive whiteboard, projector, clubs and associations, projects and
assignments, etc. then you will realize that a school is a place where you are
to:
·
Add
knowledge to your knowledge
·
Improve
your knowledge
·
Refine
your skills
·
Have
your minds expanded
·
Increase
your intelligent quotient
·
Reshape
your thoughts and mindsets
·
Broaden
your imaginations
·
Expand
your views of the world
·
Modify
your characters and attitudes, and
·
Most
importantly, develop capability to meet the needs of your society.
These are the fundamental essence of a
school. They perfectly define it.
School is knowingly or unknowingly
established on three major facts about the earth. These facts are that earth:
·
Has
a system and patterns that need to be maintained;
·
Is
full of problems which must be solved, and
·
Has
many hidden aspects which can be accessed.
This means when you go to school, you go
there for these three reasons and facts about the earth.
This is the point: this earth is full of
problems and troubles, even as the scripture confirms it, “Man is born to trouble.” Job 5:7; “Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34. Study
also Genesis 2:7-8; Ephesians 2:10. However, though the earth is full of
problems in different forms, the joy – our joy – is that there is no problem
without a solution. Every problem on earth has a solution: there is a drug for
every disease and virus. The scripture says, “…His divine power has given to us
all things that pertain to life and godliness…” 2 Peter 1:3.
Meanwhile, solution to each problem is
not so obvious that they can easily be identified as the problem, which means
the solutions are hidden somewhere on this earth. The scripture says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” Proverb 25:2. Hence, the
scriptural instructions, “Ask, and it
will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to
you.” Matthew 7:7. What we are instructed to ask for, seek for, and knock
for as kings and queens is the solutions to whatever problems we have been able
to identify.
Therefore, the fundamental reason why
you are to go school as a student is to acquire knowledge (education) of which
its end is expected to lead you to identification of at least a problem, and,
especially lead you to the discovery of solutions to a problem identified.
If after your schooling, even up to the
level of PhD, and these fundamental reasons, especially the discovery or
provision of solutions to one major human problem is not part of your recorded
achievements, I say that an unschooled fellow is ten times better than you.
And if to be rich, great, influential
and being important on this earth with rest of mind is your primary aim and
objective of going to school or to acquire a skill, then make the provision of
solution to human problems your pre-primary aim and objective; and you will
surely practically and literarily achieve your primary aim and objective of
being rich, great, and important on this earth without necessarily working to
such an end.
In emphasis, Schooling is not merely about building the best result, neither about
getting and gathering the best paper certificates; rather it is about learning
to build yourself by developing the right skills and gather information
(knowledge) that will enable you to solve human problems.
Therefore, you can’t you won’t go to
school. The radical integrity truth about going or not going to school is that,
‘if you say you are not going to school,
you definitely going to a school’ – you can't escape learning and knowledge
acquisition. However, it is better you consciously acquire knowledge and
develop skills in such an organised environment as school for the sake of your
future challenges.
One major reason why most graduates are
jobless is that they never see provision of solutions to human problems as the
radical essence of going to school.
By Akerele Segun Helen
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