The efforts that we put to get a degree seems to be a wasted one. From the conversations of a lot's of people that is the only message you did get. So many have been discouraged not to go to school. But I think that we are taken things too far. Let's dilve into the topic for week 182, edition 2 of hive learners community.
IS GETTING A DEGREE STILL WORTH THE EFFORTS?
Like I stated earlier from the beginning of this post. Thanks to God who helped me to insist that I want to go back to school to complete my education at least to have a degree. Alot of people discouraged me. They say don't go and waste your time in school. We have a lot of graduates already without a job. They said that even at my age is worse because I will never get employment at my age. Some even when to my husband to convince him not to allow me go back to school. So, one faithful day my husband called me and said that he has considered what people are saying and he is kind of making sense out of it. He said that he is not forcing me ohh, but if he will suggest I should just forget about school and settle for any business of my choice. Hmmm! Later on he said, but if I am not comfortable with what he said I should go on and continue my education. That was how I got the courage to continue.
From my own experience alone I know that it is worth it. I have passed through alot to get to where I am today and I am still ready to go through more pains to acquire more certificate: maybe my masters and doctorate degree. I have truly made up my mind to study until I can't anymore. Someone will say that I don't know what I am saying. But I do. I know where I am coming from, and I also know what I am doing.
APPLYING WHAT I LEARNT IN SCHOOL.
The application of what I learnt in school is done daily by me. I can't remember any day that will pass without me using what I learnt in school. To be frank to us here, of not that I am educated I can't cope with the hive Blockchain. Most times when I am making a Post I had to use my dictionary to understand some concept. This is only possible because I studied English language in school. Right from my NCE days in Nasarawa state college of education Akwanga, my vocabulary changed. I started speaking well and boldly too. Before I went back to school I had a lot of ideas in my head, but don't know how to bring it out. I never knew that someone like myself will write books, but during my second year in college I wrote my first book and now I have four books already written and waiting for publication. I don't think that I would have achieved that if I wasn't educated.
My life is a very good example for people to know that whatsoever you suffered to get a degree certificate is worth it because you will have received a lifetime opportunities from those years you spent there in school.
WE NEED TO CORRECT AN IMPRESSION
I think that what we need to do is to educate people even before they got to higher institutions, schooling does not guarantee that you will get a job. But you will definitely encounter a change in your life that can help you in the future. This is the aspect that I know that is discouraging people from going to school or even support those who wants to go to school. There are lots of things that we will benefit from school. Take for example the good friends you will make that can be of great benefits to your life in the future, or you can be of benefits to them in the future. Secondly, you will also be trained on how to be an employer of labor yourself. After graduation, there are hundred and one thing that a graduate can do to make money and most of those things are learnt from school.
MORE TO BE DONE BY SCHOOL.
I believe that more course that will benefit the learners even when they are out of school without a job can be introduced. Every student is supposed to be graduating alongside with a particular skill that was learnt in school. Not just those one we learn maybe in a semester, you will learn one skill, then another semester you learn another one. I wish that there will be a skill for each student from the first year in school until that student graduate from school so that it will be one thing that will also help that student survive the hardship after school with the society that has no job opportunities to offer fresh graduates these days.
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