You know we are doomed academically when:
1. The Best Graduating Student is awarded a cash gift of 10,000.
2. On this app, if your writing is exceptionally good, the first thing that comes to people's minds is, "It was written by AI." As a writer, you'll sometimes come across a post that, to you, is just a normal, everyday piece of writing, yet you'll find people in the comment section arguing that it was AI-generated. Whenever they see good writing, many people no longer believe it's possible for a human being to have written it. That is one of the greatest academic dangers we face today.
3. You can ask people the simplest questions, and they can't answer without Google. Basic information that they should know, they don't, and they don't even care. These are the same people who can't reply to a one-line tweet without using ChatGPT.
4. You simply tweet that you've never engaged in examination malpractice in your life, and 98% of the people in the comment section confidently tell you that you're lying because, to them, examination malpractice has become the norm.
5. People can't even read anything longer than two lines. "Sorry, I ain't reading all that." If you want to hide anything from the average Nigerian, just put it in writing. Libraries are becoming obsolete. People no longer visit them to read, and it's not as though they're reading e-books either. We are witnessing the death of reading culture. Someone once told me in January, after I shared my reading list for the year, that he doesn't like reading because it is utterly useless to him.
6. A country where there is little or no distinction between many graduates and an illiterate.
If we continue this way, with this level of academic decline, in a few years we will be completely enveloped by what can only be described as an "Olodo takeover.”
I think a lot of people fantasize about being parents because they think it's just something to cross off the bucket list, rather than an actual investment.
an investment of patience, flexibility, and intention.
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