Education: Beyond Syllabus

It’s always amazing, isn’t it? When you see a corporate employee, walking majestically along the street, with suit close to new, and shoes not related to the ground and a shining skin like the arrival of a morning sun. Perhaps his stars are not so much lucky that he’s being sentenced into terms under an Air Conditioned room. Really, we hear he eats good food, truly, he has beautiful dresses, but never be tricked by his paradisiac residence, rather make inquiries about him; if is he really happy with what he does?

Yes, ask of his contention and the condition he finds himself, because sometimes in life happiness is never measured by the weight of wealth, but a happy man is a fulfilled man, and a fulfilled man is the one with a goal gotten, objectives achieved and mission accomplished. You may find it difficult to relate with some public servants when you go to public offices, not because of anything but because most are not satisfied with where they are, so they tend to be disappointed deep down. No matter the buoyancy of the salary, frustration will always cloud the mind of a talented engineer that finds himself in a newsroom, likewise, a trained journalists that finds himself being an estate manager and an entertainer that ends up being a clerk, because he’s not the fulfilling purpose and living someone else’s life. This starts or begins from the place of the modeling, which is school, either by circumstances or through a nonchalant attitude of students.

A school ought to be a place of education for empowerment and not for employment. It’s of no doubt that a larger percentage of students are presently studying a particular course in their various higher institutions of learning, not for purpose but out of no choice, some have waited for admission long enough that their best option is not available, the next best choice becomes any course given by the institution, while some danced to the beat of their parents’ desire to study a specific course. All these ways lead to the admission of student, who only interest is to gain entrance into the higher institution, and since then, they have not gotten the chance to think beyond the triangular style of home and school and church/mosque, believing they have balanced the formula it takes to be successful in life.

Though these three places are so paramount to the life of an average student, but in other to escape being a prisoner in a leisure room, students must come to the realization that; “education walks beyond the syllabus, scroll down the classroom and jumps over the fence of the school”, to completely become a successful man in life, one has to work toward his purpose, because success may not be about graduating with a first class grade point, as the real examination is often taken after school hours.

There’s a need to be serious with school activities and to not be carried away with extracurricular activities, but it’s more germane for one to picture his future, foresee where his true self lies and walk towards it by reading and attending seminars that are in line with it.

Where do you find yourself in the next five years?

Why don’t you just start living it now, so that by then, you’ll have a five years experience.