G-ASHelen Orientations

In this post WHY MUST I GO TO SCHOOL? I wrote that 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. So also are jobs created by each pact or sector of a society divided into three major broad classes with each addressing a different issue. The three levels of job in each sector are: ·          Maintenance job : This kind of job only requires keeping and maintaining of an already established patterns, structures and arrangement of a sector. No addition; no subtraction. ·          Problem solving job : This kind of job requires more than a mere maintenance of patterns and structures: it requires solving of problems that do or may come up within an established pattern, structure and system of a sector. There may be ad

Many educated young people are always out there on the streets looking for job when all the while are passing by many jobs that can change their lives if they take cognizant of them. And that’s where the problem is. How can they take cognizant of something when they have not been orientated on the nature of job? As a social educator, I always believe that there is an avalanche of job opportunities out there in our societies much more than we can all do, inasmuch as society – people – is still alive. The reason why many graduates are job is because they do not understand the meaning of a job and how society provides jobs. WHAT IS A JOB Society as a living organism has many parts (interests and concerns) which happen to be the interests, the needs, the wants, and the desires of all the people that are collectively called society. Parts or sectors of any society include: ·          Sports ·          Cooking and baking ·          Fashion ·          Security

Schooling is not about getting certificates. No. It is about acquiring education – knowledge. It is a pity to think of the focus of many school children and youths in school these days. Some of them keep their entire time building certificate, and ignore those special moments when they ought to have learnt their greatest lessons and developed effective skills and capabilities. I guess they hardly think or realize that certificate will leave them and stay at home – only their skills and proficiency will be going around with them. Paper certificate is nothing less than a mere proof that you attended a school; it is never a proof of your skills and capacities. You will not be going around with your certificate. Once you use it to open a door of a job opportunity, you will be left with your skills and abilities. This is why I often advise students that they build their certificate and make it attractive, but not at the detriment of their skills development. Though many o

Until we radically understand the meaning of education, we will never know that factually all our forefathers and mothers are well educated, and many of our youths today who are still in school, have been to school and that can speak well will continue to expand in their ignorance because ·          Education is not going to a school ·          Education is not the mastery of the means through which education is giving As Henry Miller once put it, "One thing is certain today – the illiterate are definitely not the least intelligent among us. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself – direct experience of life." Education is not a place and it does not aim just to help you speak and write, that we should measure it based on where one acquires knowledge or on how fluently well one can speak – speaking and writ

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. Schoo

Every system needs to be reviewed in order to be improved. This earth needs constant reviewing for us to discover the best new ways to address the rising problems. This post is an Introduction to our serial posts under the title UNDERSTANDING THE REASONS FOR GRADUATES’ JOBLESSNESS AND HOW YOU CAN ESCAPE IT with the aim of shedding light on the major reasons why 95% of graduates from our various higher institutions has continued to be jobless and will continue to be if they continue learning they way they have been learning. With the posts in this series, we hope to help school children, undergraduates and society to better understand the nature of these causes and as well provide the best solution to it. We will like to present the posts in question-and-answer format. Which means each post will be an answer to a question, and that’s why the title of this introductory post is THE POWER OF QUESTIONING AND DOUBTING. In 1939, H. B. Drake, wrote, "The student is like