[VIDEO] Why I Do Not Want My Kids to Have the Same Education I Got [Meet 19 Year Old Lagos Based CEO With 3 Employees] – Junior CEO Spotlight Interview

UPDATE -Wednesday, 2nd December 2020: Best Practice Schooling – Kudos to Lagos State Education Board Schools and Teachers [Two Digital Flyers on Best Practice Schooling – for you to download and study…] I am publishing, this morning, two digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling, as a follow up to my latest video titled “Why I Do Not Want My Kids to Have the Kind of Education I Got“. One of the Digital Flyers features a message Burt posted on my Facebook wall, last year on my 49th birthday (6th July 2019) which I found relevant to the theme of the message in my flyers, You can view/download the digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling here (Click now).

This Lagos based Phone Repair and Accessories Sales business featured in the video below, is owned by a 19 year old – Secondary School leaver – called Kelvin..

The first time I met him was on the 19th of November 2020, when I walked into this shop to get my phone (which had suddenly refused to come on) fixed.

Within a few minutes he’d opened it up and resolved the problem with the power button that kept it from coming on – assuring that the battery was still in good condition. We got talking after that and I learned he owned the shop PLUS had 3 young chaps (still in school) as employees.

He has since fixed my Mom’s as well as my daughter’s phones.

Needless to say he’s competent!

I asked him to share his thoughts about schooling as it relates to preparing oneself for adult life.

Hear him…

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“Yeah…I’m Kelvin, popularly known as…My company is E-TECH. I am a phone engineer. I started this work (in) 2017. Now I’m already on my own now. I learned this work but I’m still going to go to school O. Not that I’ve forgotten about school. I’m still going to go to school, but not now.

I’m still going to do it, but I’m planning it sha…next year. I’ll be going like Part-Time and be doing this – I’ll be doing two of them.

Well I’ll advise everyone that, it’s not that school is not good O. School is still okay, and work is still okay. But if I want to advise – for me, my own advise that I can give anyone out there is that you can learn work. You can learn any handwork before going back to school.

It will help you a lot. It will help you a lot. Because now look at me…”
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Parents Need to Design Custom Education]
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We need to stop telling our kids to only…

“Go to school and get good grades”

That strategy is no longer good enough for authentic success achievement in life! The world has changed drastically – and so has it’s rules for success.

It goes without saying that there are “good” schools in Nigeria, that are the exception to the HARMFUL norm I describe in this “boat-rocking” video message.

However, what I’ve found is that MOST of such good schools are simply too pricey to allow all those whose kids need good quality learning to access them.

This is why I openly ENDORSE the Lagos State Public School System, into which I enrolled my daughters in 2018.

My experiences show that Lagos State Public Schools give kids of ANYONE, rich or not, access to decent quality controlled schooling, based on merit.

We forget that many great Nigerians attended Public Schools. A good example is Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Like I tell people all the time, Wole Soyinka’s basic education equipped him with the foundation to develop into a Nobel Laureate. Yet his parents DID NOT have to spend millions to put him through school.

Apart from Soyinka, some senators and others who hold (or have held) public office today enjoyed FREE Education provided during their schooling years.
Their parents did not have to give up an arm and a leg to pay for the schooling.

The Schooling System should allow the child of every citizen the opportunity to get access to the best possible learning.

A child from a poor home could be the next genius – but if s/he cannot get into a good quality learning environment, because it’s too expensive, that child may never achieve his/her full potential.

Education should NEVER be about money. It should be about developing and nurturing learners to MAKE THE MOST OF THEMSELVES – to achieve FULL self-actualization – in a way that ultimately benefits larger society!

This video clip in which I’m speaking NOW, is a 3.5 minute excerpt from my (soon-to-be-published) 30 minute video titled…

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Many of you are just allowing Nigerian schools to pull you by the nose, take your money and waste your time.

Your child finishes from their schools, your child cannot function outside in society.

What’s the point? You finish from school and you’re still looking for help, you know, going out to get…learn a skill for 3 months to 6 months to feed yourself. And yet you have this degree from some university or you finished secondary education and you got some, you know…you finished some A-Levels and at the end of the day you still can’t function in society. What’s the point?!

Schooling is supposed to prepare you for success in life. If it doesn’t do that there’s a problem. And I’m living proof of it – with all my records, all my academic brilliance, everything…I was borrowing money from vulcanizer to fuel my car.

There is a problem with that!

The fact that a person cannot finish from the so-called higher institution and come into the real world of his society and begin to flourish…there’s a problem with that!

That’s stupid schooling. It’s like saying that a person went to Swimming School, right and finished from Swimming School, but cannot swim. He went to Driving School, and finished from Driving School, but cannot drive.

There’s something wrong with that. If you don’t think there’s something wrong with that, there’s something wrong with YOU!

So I’m calling out the education system in Nigeria. I’m calling out those running the schools in Nigeria. What you’re doing is NOT working.

With very few exceptions, your institutions are a waste of time. And I say this as a parent, and I say this as a product of your school system.

I had to reinvent myself to function in a reliable manner as an income earner, to support my family…OUTSIDE Paid Employment!

Take note of that…OUTSIDE Paid Employment!

“…I’m not talking about paid employment, because those people in paid employment have to retire. They will retire or they will get sacked one day. Then when they come into society, that is when we’ll know what kind of education they got, and how good it can be for a person to survive…so what I’m saying is that Nigeria generally, in particular, and the world at large, the formal schooling system they have does not give the kind of education that prepares people to succeed, in any reliable manner, in maximizing their full potentials in life as adults.

So they don’t know how to feed themselves – in particular.

Once you don’t know how to make money to feed yourself, to sustain yourself and to then build a family. If you cannot do that, your education has been useless.

You’ve got to get education that enables you to do that. That’s the most important thing. Without money, literally nothing will work for you in the world of the living. Let’s get REAL!

So once your education does NOT teach you that, then it’s RUBBISH!

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Do you want to watch me do a detailed interview with Kelvin (the 19 year old Phone Repairs & Accessories Sales business owner featured in this video) in which he shares the full story about how he started etc?

If YES, click the LIKE button on this video, now, and invite others to do the same. Once it gets up to 50 likes, I will inform Kelvin, to do the full interview and post it here.

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If YES, post “I want the PDF Transcript” in the comments section of this video, now.

Once I get up to 10 such comments, I will prepare the PDF transcript and post the download link in the video DESCRIPTION section below

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READ: TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”