G-ASHelen Orientations

Most times, when we consider the price for quality things, we could just mindlessly resolve to take the cheaper ones not minding the fact that there is nothing to be compared with quality in all ramifications be it the lifespan, the workmanship, the standard, the authenticity, the aesthetic, etc. There is no amount of price you gave for quality things that you will not get more than its double in return.                                                                                                  ...

Whenever I hear a student or any graduate asking this question, I always think that the right question they should or ought to ask themselves in place of this is ‘Did I allow my school to prepare me for society?’ School is described as an organized environment for the purpose of adding values to the lives of members of a society through teaching and learning. What society does through schools is educating, that is, making know to the people of the society something that is previously unknown to them. So, knowing the unknown is what we call ‘knowledge’, and that is the essence of going to school – to possess knowledge, skills, minds and virtues which are needed to survive in society, (and which hitherto going to school is completely unknown to them). If you ask, ‘did my school prepare me for society?’ my question for you is, ‘everything you know today, do they come to you by chance, without ever going to school, without any contribution from your schoolmates or your teachers...