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September 23, 2026, 04:57:07 AM |
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EDUCATION IS KEY
(Except that we call anything being taught in any building school fees are being paid “Education”)
The year is 2026. According to Nigerian educational system, the year is 1888.
The utter incompetence of the Nigerian educational system cannot be overemphasized. I thought about literature today and how much I would love to teach literature for a short period of time and I drifted-off to a provoking observation... Why is literature taught based on just books in 2026?
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This is basically an advocacy for literature to be lectured with movies and music in syllabuses. I have learnt more literature and even faster through music and movies and like-wise a whole lot of people and there’s soo much being missed out on. There’s a whole level of literacy this would awaken including the reshaping of the trajectory of art consumption and production.
Kendrick Lamar’s Sing About Me/I’m dying of Thirst is a monumental work of art that could be studied as a literally work in a class room (I could teach it).
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski’s The Matrix franchise, etc, are great literally works holding a lot of knowledge to be tapped.
How does this observation help our society? like I said, the consumption and production of art could be heavily influence. In the digital age, people consume more digital arts than books. We are very well aware of the brainrot consumption and production of art to the extent that actual creative works with very rich lessons and meaning is totally abandoned because the people are just too slow to understand basic literally works, talk more about incredibly artistic works.
Instead of telling youths to put down their phone which is logically impossible or blaming drugs— because even them (the leaders of today) are too negligent to actually try to study and fix anything at all, I think the Government should be more inclusive with digitisation and not treating it like the illuminati but the people in charge of the office that should look into this is probably creating means to extort students and moral police them while rewarming garbage to serve them until they become “graduates” then we turn around and ask why there’s an influx of “olodo-uprising”.
Literature is defined as the mirror of life but when we look at it in the Nigerian education system, it is a complete mirage.
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