If you donโt succeed academically ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ.
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Success is a success.
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It doesnโt matter where it occurred.
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In fact,
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The essence of education is to equip you with the ability to achieve success in life.
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Not, to pile up degrees.
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The etiological meaning of education is โ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฐ - means to ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.โ
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Everyone can not be a ๐น๐ป๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ป.
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Everyone can not be a ๐๐ถ๐๐โฏ๐ย
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Everyone can not be a doctorย
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Everyone can not be an โฏ๐โ๐พ๐โฏโฏ๐
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But,
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Believe me.
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๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด.ย
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Donโt allow your inability to perform well academically to destroy your ability to succeed well in real life.
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Our school system is designed to glorify only those who were genetically favoured by natural selection.
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๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
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This has crippled so many young people in the world.
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Most especially in my continent Africa.
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Each child I come across is very creative, but school smashes that creativity in exchange for a grade.
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๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ?
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Prof sir ken Robinson in his famous Tedtalk which is the most watched Tedxtalk video in world spoke about how school kills creativity in children.
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โ๐๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ, ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง.โ__ John Dewey.
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Let me make this clear to you guys...
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The only educated person is the one who use his/her THINKING and SKILL ability to get what he/she wants out of life.
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The rest is glorifying nonsense.
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So if you have I million degree and you are not able to get what you want out of life, then you are the most uneducated person in the world.
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Whether you are a professor or not, it doesnโt matter.
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๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐.
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What is the essence of academic degrees if one cannot produce what will benefit his/herself and mankind?
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My sons/daughters if for any reason the school system rejects you or belittle you because you couldnโt do well in testing and grading.
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Go to the real world and prove them wrong.
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At the end of the day, nobody will remember your position in school, they will only remember your contributions to mankind.
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๐ฆโฏโฏ๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐พ๐ ๐๐พ๐๐น.
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Go for self-education, study great books, learn great skills and apply what you have learned, fail and start again, repeat it for years and you will become deadly outstanding in youโre doing.
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โ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง-๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด, ๐ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด.โ __Isaac Asimov.
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Remember, school is not there to educate you, rather school is there to provide you with directions on how to get yourself educated.
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The most educated people that I know are the ones who taught themselves before and after schooling.
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So,
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No matter the difficulty of academics donโt ever quit on your visions and dreams, that is what brought you into this world not grade.
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You are only permitted to quit when you have taken your last breath, but as long as you are breathing, you must continue to push.
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In Ancient Greek, they say:๐
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โ >> ๐๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข ๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ<<
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โ >>Meaning โ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ.โ<<
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Adopt that mentality and you will overcome many obstacles and go far in life.
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Here is what most folks donโt know about academic excellence.
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๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ.
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The same applies to reading and comprehension ability.
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If you are born into a professor's family you will likely have a 99% chance of doing well academically.
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๐ฒ๐ฝ๐พ๐โฏ....
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If you are born into a family like mine where your mother and father never went to nursery school talk more of university, believe me, academic excellence will be hard for you to achieve to some extent.
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Except you were massively chosen by gene to do well academically, if not you will always fall behind.
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Read up on a research called the ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต.ย
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The idea that those who have, more will be given to them.
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The research is saying that those children who start off doing well in school will continue to do well till the graduation level, because the attention of the teachers will be on them.
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Why the ones who are doing poor will be looked down upon.
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When, in reality they are the ones who needs teachers attention the most.
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You see how the system is designed?
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๐๐พ๐ฝ, ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ท!
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Never allow that to stop you from pursuing a lifelong education and self-reliance.
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>>>nobody remembers Thomas Edison as a failure in school, we remember him as an inventor.
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>> nobody remembers Albert Einstein as a school failure, we remember him as the genius behind relativity.ย
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>> nobody remembers, Bill Gate as a school dropout, we remember him as one of the richest man in the world.
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There is a famous lengthy genetic test of genius by Lewis Terman from 1921 to 1999 which was a land mark in history of psychology and research intelligent.
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The test was conducted among 1,500+ students.
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There was two people who took the test and were rejected ( William Shockley and Luis Alvarez. )
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Both respectively later went ahead to win Nobel prize in physics.
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While... those who passed the test could measure up to those guys genius late in life.
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The truth is,
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Testing and grading canโt tell who will succeed or not.
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๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด 21 ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐บ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ AI.
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For that reason creativity is needed more than grade in our world today.
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Dear young one...
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๐๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ.
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โI feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.โ __Kent McCord.
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๐๐ธ๐!
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Donโt get me wrong, I do not say academic excellence is bad.
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All Iโm saying is that every cอhอiอlอdอ iอsอ aอ gอeอnอiอuอsอ.
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And, grade alone, canโt determine that.
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School system is using pressure for grade to kill the creative genius in our children.
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๐ฏ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐โด ๐๐โด๐ .
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If you think Iโm wrong, then that is your problem.
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Once again I say to all young people out there donโt allow academics to determine your destiny.
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Though take your academics serious.
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If you do well in terms of academics; great.
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If didnโt do well; fine.
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๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ.
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On that note, till I come your way again.
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โ ๐โฏ๐๐ถ๐พ๐ ๐โด๐๐ ๐ป๐๐พโฏ๐๐น.
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