This tweet accidentally explains one of the deepest problems with Nigerian education.
We have confused early literacy with early intelligence.
A 5 year old kid reading and writing before everyone isn’t impressive. Childhood development is not a race to finish the ABC. Those early years should be about building curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, communication and independent thinking.
Let them build things. Draw nonsense. Play games. Solve puzzles. Ask annoying questions. Learn to disagree and explain why.
Then reading, writing and maths become tools for a mind that has already started learning how to THINK.
And Twitter is probably the funniest evidence of what happens when we get this backwards 😂
Every day you meet people here who can read and write beautifully. Big grammar sef.
But comprehension? Omo.
You write A. They read B. They argue passionately against C. Then 4,000 people retweet aggressively 😭
That is the tragedy.
Literacy is not the same thing as education. Being able to read is useless if you were never taught how to think.
@OgaHans@_TeyGah Everythin is not meant for social. This tweet can be used against your wife in a court of law in the future that she once committed an offence. And there is no way she can defend it, bcus it is from a reliable source (u d husband). Always think 2ce before typin on social media 🤦
@Eddyballer1@DaveUmahi@woye1 I just hope moving forward all our Minister of Works will be Civil Engineers and Minister of Power Electrical Engineers.
There are jobs you can't just play with of you want good result.
@woye1@fingerlyjay I am so happy with that post, because it has been a major concern for me.
If you can provide an evidence where a Nigerian government/agency as funded a “single research project” not the whole country, up to the tune of #500 million 🤦, I will deactivate my social accounts
@woye1@fingerlyjay I follow you because I like your tweets. But on this very subject matter, you are absolutely wrong, you did not do your homework before commenting “They do”.
#50 million can barely buy pipettes and reagents (1 time used) that can be used in biomedical research.