Africa,s problem is trusting paper degree over skills and knowledge

[Spaceman1000$]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

Europeans didn't do wrong to bring education to Africa,  what Africa would have done was create something significant with the level of education they've gotten, make a scientific curriculum that suits their way if life, just the way China and Japan have done over the years. Paper certification should as well be applied to real world problems and solution should be made, not just having the degree and no place to practice what you've learn, there should be industries for people to genuinely practice their course of study, and the absence of some of these industries is what is making the degrees in some African countries look as though is not useful.

[Jamestown70]

Bringing education to Africa by the European isn't bad it would have even be more difficult if we can't read or write you wouldn't also have been in this forum if you can't read or write, in the days of my grandfather those who has the opportunity to be educated were the ones occupying most important offices in the society but now things has actually changed only degree doesn't save again people with skills are even getting it clear now but leaning the skill was also possible because of the little knowledge they have aquire in the primary and secondary education most people with degree now also have skill because of how hard it is now to get a job through the degree they have aquired in the university.

The analogy that suit the days of our grand father is the days where there were a thousand fishes in the river and there are 10 fisher men that knows how to fish, right now we have one thousand fisher men and there are only 10 fishes in the river so it’s likely gonna be luck for these fishermen to catch any fish. The mistake we the upcoming once fail to understand is this, the moment you’re out of secondary school and you’re able to read and write try as much as possible to get a skill, once you’ve actualize that, then you can proceed to studying courses or course that is related to your skills for more enlightenment and as well the certificate. That way, you’re two way authenticated.

[Barikui1]

The problem I saw in this is that African as a continent misinterpreted the essence of education, which I believe is primary for enlightenment and self development, so just having a degree without having anything like skills to offer is very big misstep by most Africans, because in Europe and most developing countries, what is more important is what you can offer as a person, because almost everyone there, like majority are educated, so you need skills and charisma to do a certain job, not just by having a degree/paper and be expecting the best when you have nothing to offer aside speaking big grammars.

[Porfirii]

The problem I saw in this is that African as a continent misinterpreted the essence of education, which I believe is primary for enlightenment and self development, so just having a degree without having anything like skills to offer is very big misstep by most Africans, because in Europe and most developing countries, what is more important is what you can offer as a person, because almost everyone there, like majority are educated, so you need skills and charisma to do a certain job, not just by having a degree/paper and be expecting the best when you have nothing to offer aside speaking big grammars.

I don't entirely agree with your statement. In my country (Europe) there is a term that is used a lot today, and it is "titulitis", which defines the tendency to ask for a large number of degrees and base the analysis to access a job on their possession, without effectively assessing other skills that the candidate may have.

This does not mean that it always happens the same, there are professions that require demonstrating certain practical skills; simply that for the vast majority of jobs the academic curriculum is what is most valued, and on many occasions the only thing that is valued.

[DrBeer]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

You seem to have a strange idea about education! When I was studying at a university in my home country, we had several groups of students from Asia and Africa. I was studying process automation to become an automation engineer. So, just like everyone else, the students from Africa were taught foundational knowledge (physics, chemistry, economics, programming, English/French/German/Spanish, and so on), and after the second year, we began our specialization,automated control systems, electrical engineering, robotic systems,and then we had an internship at industrial enterprises.
 
I’m guessing you attended some kind of bogus educational institution, since the only things you were taught during your entire education were how to read and write.... I’m sorry, but I can’t draw any other conclusions.


And as for economics, you’re wrong here-probably because you didn’t study economics. Manual labor has always been needed-that’s a fact. But the modern, developed world thrives on the production of goods and services with high added value, not low added value, such as resource extraction. And a high-value-added model requires, first and foremost, intellectual solutions, not physical labor.

PS I do agree that having a diploma doesn’t necessarily mean that a person has received a quality education or actually possesses the knowledge. But that’s the person’s own problem.

[Jessie2121]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

The thing is that after they gave Africans the idea of going to school and do all that needs to be done in school and it got into us that we even forget to ask other important questions,that alone got us stocked, no way of moving forward and this has been the problem we face in this part of the World, we Africans choose to have all the degrees and papers without attaching anything to it. So many people brag about that as an achievement but we can't do that same thing other European countries are doing with their own knowledge to improve their economy or their country, is sad that going to school is the only thing we have to offer our children and we also force them to follow that same pattern, talk about invention is zero but talk about how many schools and papers A.K.A degrees we have you would see so many persons coming out to raise shoulders but all are nothing productive, that is why so many African countries are still behind.

[justdimin]

skills are very important in today's technological world as compared to just paper degrees, practical skills, experience having problem solving ability is very valuable in different industries, businesses freelancing but it is not fully fair to just say that degrees are having no value, degrees still give basic knowledge discipline in  different fields like engineering and law.The real problem is not degree versus skills but it is that gap between education and the job requirement skills in some places. In many countries around the globe including Africa the mostly education system is focusing too much on theory rather than the practical training, in ideal situation both theory and practical should go with each other and a person who have a degree should have strong skills to get the best jobs and be successful in changing global economy.

Here in my country, just the education is no longer sufficient to get a decent paying job. Some other kind of certifications are always listed as basic requirements under these job profiles. These job profiles also wants an educational background and they would simply reject your application if you lack the educational qualifications.

Along with the paper degree, practical skills and some certifications would really be of much help here. Even though education is not alone sufficient to get a job, it is one of the basic requirements. We can't simply skip getting these degrees but instead can focus on getting degree from established and known universities.

[Leahized]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

This problem is not only in Africa but also in my country. For this every year millions of students are becoming unemployed after completing their graduation. Honestly considering the quality of education, no graduate will qualify for a job. Because my education level today is very low. It only teaches who is discovering what and in what year. In short, knowing and writing about memorable people. On the other hand jobs require only work qualifications, which we don't really have nothing, except for degree certificates. In this situation there is no other way but to do business, to move ahead in real life.

[Satofan44]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

Surely the European slave masters should have not taught literacy to Africa, instead they should have let the people there stay savages and cavemen. What the fuck are you even talking about? Europe is the only reason for which Africa is not in the stone age right now, you should be bowing down to the Gods that have saved you. I despise Europeans for various reasons of their stupidity, but give thanks where it is due. You would have been nothing without Europe, you were animal savages and you are still not able to get past your stupid tribalism despite of the intervention by Europe. It would have been better to keep Africa under colonialism for another couple years, like this is it is ruined and barely progressing.

That said, this has nothing to do with Africa. The whole world is like this now, the people that are called experts in public even in the western world are people who have expertise based on their CV. Their actual knowledge is not really judged, it is if they were in positions that look important, have papers, and shit like that. Most of them are dumb as rocks and only know how to repeat information like a pet monkey, they do not even understand the basics of their alleged field of expertise. Therefore, you need to wake up and stop hallucinating. This is a world-wide issues. Only in certain industries and with individual corporations is it done differently. This is why, on average, at whatever job you look at the average worker is doing a bad job. They got it because of papers or because of their charisma, not because of their actual skills.

Most leading European politicians and experts in positions of power are as smart as a teenager stoner.

[bakasabo]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

This problem is not only in Africa but also in my country. For this every year millions of students are becoming unemployed after completing their graduation. Honestly considering the quality of education, no graduate will qualify for a job. Because my education level today is very low. It only teaches who is discovering what and in what year. In short, knowing and writing about memorable people. On the other hand jobs require only work qualifications, which we don't really have nothing, except for degree certificates. In this situation there is no other way but to do business, to move ahead in real life.

Problems lies on student as well. Those who study in universities have to monitor job market all the time. What is the point of learning 4-6 years to get bachelor degree, when after first year of studies you see that nobody hire people of profession that you study. A person who has just graduated from school must do a little research of job market, before he applies to university. When I was studying in university, that time it was popular to study laws. It was obvious that one city or country dont need hundreds and thousands of jurists/attorneys. It was clear that when those student graduate, they will face difficulties finding a job.

[Myleschetty]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

It is good to be open to new developments that's around the world just like the  European slave masters introduced Africa to reading and writing. Since new inventions are made practically every day, Africa should anticipate that the system may be obsolete since new inventions are introduced almost every day, so it is left for Africa to either adopt the system that will them advance with the new invention or continue replicating the European slave masters concept.
I recall that during the 19th and early 20th centuries, China experienced overlapping colonization and rule by Britain, Japan, France, Russia, Germany, and Portugal. However, some of their colonizing nations cannot now meet up to China's standards.
The main issue is not the European slave masters, but rather African leaders who continue to implement obsolete systems.

[Bitcoin.com97]

Such mindset was impacted long time ago ,but it's no longer happening again,gone at those days when all we think of is just learning how to read and write ,but it's beyond that ,from primary school many has began to teach their kids the value of skill ,so before they get to secondary ,so many things has been impacted in them ,them at university level they will still earning , some has began to make money from the skill acquires at that  primary level, because there are still many who didn't go to school because no matter what is thought the brain can't accommodate it,that is why we have so many wealthy illiterate,who can't read and write none speak,so in as much as education is important, skill is also important as well, both works differently in our lives

[Accardo]

Failure is always one step ahead of every parent, Education paid off in Africa, no doubt, in the 70s you'd get a job immediately after graduation, even while in the University, companies came to recruit students, parents who saw this happen, swore, no matter what, their kids will go to school. Today, it's no longer that way, Education didn't pay off to those kids whose parents saw people getting rich through University degrees, now, everyone thinks it's all about skills, and would push their kids to learn a skill, then skills get saturated and stops paying high due to the same diminishing return from oversaturation that happened to school degrees. People should be futuristic, it's not about placing kids to learn what paid while you were a youth, it could get outdated the moment they get to adulthood. Parents should think wide and beyond into the future before choosing or support their kid's dream.

[yhiaali3]

Although we do not belong to the African continent, the same thing is true in my country, and I believe it is the same thing in all Third World countries, because the problem lies in the way and approach of the politicians who run these countries.

Most academic university graduates in my country lack real experience because there is a huge gap between university studies on paper and actual application on the ground. They teach them the theory but do not care about practical application, or the curricula are old and backward and do not keep up with modern technology and developments. Thus, the student graduates from university carrying only theories.

[Zy_sat]

Surely the European slave masters should have not taught literacy to Africa, instead they should have let the people there stay savages and cavemen. What the fuck are you even talking about? Europe is the only reason for which Africa is not in the stone age right now, you should be bowing down to the Gods that have saved you. I despise Europeans for various reasons of their stupidity, but give thanks where it is due. You would have been nothing without Europe, you were animal savages and you are still not able to get past your stupid tribalism despite of the intervention by Europe. It would have been better to keep Africa under colonialism for another couple years, like this is it is ruined and barely progressing.

That said, this has nothing to do with Africa. The whole world is like this now, the people that are called experts in public even in the western world are people who have expertise based on their CV. Their actual knowledge is not really judged, it is if they were in positions that look important, have papers, and shit like that. Most of them are dumb as rocks and only know how to repeat information like a pet monkey, they do not even understand the basics of their alleged field of expertise. Therefore, you need to wake up and stop hallucinating. This is a world-wide issues. Only in certain industries and with individual corporations is it done differently. This is why, on average, at whatever job you look at the average worker is doing a bad job. They got it because of papers or because of their charisma, not because of their actual skills.

Most leading European politicians and experts in positions of power are as smart as a teenager stoner.

This is literally the funniest thing I have seen in a long long time lol. I have never seen anyone, literally anyone, in my life, that actually thought slavery and raping and pillaging was good. The human zoos, the hand cutting, the murder, the genocide, the resource stealing, the rapes, the slavery, everything that has gone up until literally 100 years ago or even more recent in some cases. That was all good because... let me check my notes... because Europeans actually made Africa BETTER THIS WAY? Really? Lol, I have never heard such a funny thing in my life. Ricky Gervais, louis ck, move aside, we have a new comedian that is here to take your throne . Start considering a career in stand up mate, you would kill it I am sure .

[Satofan44]

This is literally the funniest thing I have seen in a long long time lol. I have never seen anyone, literally anyone, in my life, that actually thought slavery and raping and pillaging was good.

Because you are surrounded by human NPCs that are brainwashed by even the most basic and stupid propaganda that exist. Slavery, big and scary word so I will pretend that it is bad in every circumstance and that it was one-sided.  

The human zoos, the hand cutting, the murder, the genocide, the resource stealing, the rapes, the slavery, everything that has gone up until literally 100 years ago or even more recent in some cases. That was all good because... let me check my notes... because Europeans actually made Africa BETTER THIS WAY? Really? Lol, I have never heard such a funny thing in my life. Ricky Gervais, louis ck, move aside, we have a new comedian that is here to take your throne . Start considering a career in stand up mate, you would kill it I am sure .

Africa has only exited the stone age because of Europe. Had there been no colonization of Africa, you would be stuck in a level of degeneracy and savageness that can not even be imagined today. To claim that all Europe did was take thing away from you is a falsehood on the level of believing in your pagan gods and idiotic rituals, Europe exported a lot of things back to you -- things that matter more, not resources or materials. In most cases the population that was encountered there were illiterate savages, it had no institutions, no democracy, no civilization, nothing except destitution and tribalism. Slavery is only a small aspect of colonialism and I did not even mention it at all, most of it was an exchange even if it was more one-sided the other side still received a lot. Who do you think was also massively selling black people away as slaves? The very same black tribal leaders, but hey let's pretend that you were all innocent and it was the big bad Europeans that forcibly enslaved everyone and nobody else did slavery.   Given the state of Africa right now, perhaps a return to slavery would generate more progress than what most countries are capable of doing right now.   You may want to pretend that this is not possible simply because pajeet NPCs believe "slavery" is a bad word, but statistics do not give a fuck about your useless feelings and it is very possible that an unbiased analysis would lead to such outcomes for specific locations and given time periods.

Although we do not belong to the African continent, the same thing is true in my country, and I believe it is the same thing in all Third World countries, because the problem lies in the way and approach of the politicians who run these countries.

Most academic university graduates in my country lack real experience because there is a huge gap between university studies on paper and actual application on the ground. They teach them the theory but do not care about practical application, or the curricula are old and backward and do not keep up with modern technology and developments. Thus, the student graduates from university carrying only theories.

Who do you think become politicians of these countries? Foreign citizens? The politicians that run the country are a reflection of the consensus and situation of the majority of the citizens of a country. If you have bad politicians, then perhaps a look in the mirror is worthwhile. Often people complain that politicians are corrupt, but this is primarily because the average person is corrupt and a fraud too -- yet they refuse to admit that because they are weaklings. You are also not correct to say that this is a thing in third world countries, because it implies that it is limited to them -- it is a thing in all countries right now, with varying degrees of magnitude.

[Juicyhome]

The problem I saw in this is that African as a continent misinterpreted the essence of education, which I believe is primary for enlightenment and self development, so just having a degree without having anything like skills to offer is very big misstep by most Africans, because in Europe and most developing countries, what is more important is what you can offer as a person, because almost everyone there, like majority are educated, so you need skills and charisma to do a certain job, not just by having a degree/paper and be expecting the best when you have nothing to offer aside speaking big grammars.

I think the education design in Africa is towards employment, they teach on how to get a job and not on how to create jobs, while in the world entrepreneurship the aim of every educational system, teach skills over theory and it has helped them to be independent over Africa.

In Africa we have more educated poor people than illiterates. Everyone is going to school so they can be employable after school, that mindset is the reason we're backward in everything. We value long education over skills. After school we need up begging to survive because there's no job. If you're smart you will begin to learn a skill and start preparing yourself for opportunity to come.

[Abdulzuruku01]

One of the disease eating up Africa's development was the brainwashed the European slave masters gave to them about school. They were taught how to read and write what the Europeans wrote,no skills attached,no knowledge just know how to read and write. Today, the world has gone beyond you just acquiring degrees to you acquiring skills and knowledge. The world economy is been revolutionized and Africa lacks the man power to do that . Africans just attend universities to learn  more than what they learnt in primary and secondary schools.

If Africans refused to prioritize certificate over skills they will remain underdeveloped, although acquiring certificates is good but the mentality of certificate over skills should be abolished rather than to consider both. Some people will be i just want to have this certificate for the promotion and forget to focus on having the knowledge of what they are studying, at the end they can't even defend themselves. imagine civil engineer students that prioritize certificate and don't focus on the knowledge, i don't think he/she will have anything to present on field, most of the developed countries we see today do make skills compulsory for citizens in other to support country with the knowledge of their skills.

[Crakryptvest]

It is not a one continent problem. It is a global problem that exist in most developing countries. However, education is vital. The most successful people in the world went through series of education, without the education I'm sure they won't be were they are today.

Even if we are to agree to what you pen down here about this being a general problem, not for a particular continent, there are some part of the world that are mainly into this, Africa do more of theory than practical, infact my country do more of that, do you know that if some those developed country value paper degree than the real thing which is practical, I don't think they would've been where they are today i mean where they have reached in terms of all round development, the paper is very important to many African countries than the knowledge that's the fact although these present African generation are doing their best in getting different skills and the knowledge itself

[Mhizlove]

School supposed to be about practicals used in supporting theories, but Africa is mostly about theories. If this one is left beside, also Africa lack knowledge of innovations which are very important. It is very surprising that Africa has nothing good that they are developing that we know of. They are just lagging behind all the time. Your governments also do not seat down, to think about this and know a way forward which makes Africa not yet be in 2026. It is like Africa is 10 years behind.

Honestly innovation and practical education really deserves much more attention, but I don't agree saying that Africa don't produce anything or lacks innovation completely. Africa has alot of talented people and innovative ideas, even though alot of them still struggle because of weak infrastructure, inconsistent government support and limited funding. If greater investment goes into research, entrepreneurship and skills development, several local innovations can make a global impact.