05/05/2025
He is wrong and flatly lost on the real purpose of education. Going to school with the sole goal of getting a job, and graduating with the same thinking, means the person missed many classes in school. The biggest mistake in the career system is the way some people position the value of education. Yes, some people now see going to university to be synonymous with getting a job!
But if you understand the value of education, education does not mean or equate to jobs. Education is designed to be a system to liberate the minds, and not a system to just get jobs. Jobs are just one of the benefits or features associated with education, because education provides knowledge.
Yes, the real value of education is the liberation of the mind. If we have knowledge, we cannot be ruled by jobs. We cannot fear jobs because we will have the capacity to own our future. If you have the right education, you have victory over jobs. An Igbo proverb says that “ndu ka ihe eji azu ya” [life is bigger than whatever is required to sustain it], and that means we need to seek knowledge over the fixation of jobs. I challenge us to develop skills and capabilities, and jobs, in different forms, will emerge.
And that means even when the jobs come, we must not allow the jobs to boss over us. Largely, there is no job anyone will hold that someone has not “held” or ‘resigned” from. And that means when your job title or your position at work is the first way people relate with you, you have a problem. Why? The day that title goes, you become miserable because the basis of your existence has gone. But if you stand as a person, you will see that nothing will “expire” in your career because job titles come and go, but you should not. Let us have victory over jobs, and stop the debate that university education is useless with some even burning their certificates in Nigeria (I doubt they do!).
Remember: making an "A" or “C” is not the education; the process of making an "A", “C” or whatever is the education. If you do not submit to that process, irrespective of whatever grade they assign to you, you will still miss what it means to be educated!
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