This is a common saying today among the Nigeria youth. Most young persons sees education as waste of precious time hence, the desire for quick money at all cost have driven them into an ear inching actions.
If we must address these mess, I think we must need go back to the root; which is the society.
Our society today idolise wealth without minding to investigate how such a person acquire his or her wealth. These was what led to human trafficking in the late 90s in Benin and today it is no longer human trafficking but ritualist and Yahoo plus.
Who is to be blamed for this worm that has eaten deep into fabric of our society, hmmmm our society has become dilapidated, desperately seeking for those who can help repair the damages we are experiencing.
If we must be sincere, a visit to those who went to school in the early 80s and 90s are today the elite of our society meaning our ruling class have missed it somewhere and hence, there is an urgent call for them to visit the past and then restrategise on how to rewake the lost value of education in Nigeria.
Therefore, indirectly one cannot blame those who came up with this saying "school na scam" because a look into the Nigeria education will make one to really tell that the dividends of education is no where to be found due to back leadership.
Nevertheless, education is not a scam in the sense that philosophers in time past expressed the value of education when they gave the following quote;
John Dewey said education is not preparation for life: education is life itself. Benjamin Franklin asserted to this when he said that an investment in knowledge pay the best interest.
To the society, Kofi Annan stated that knowledge is power, information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family. To the nation, Edward Everett affirmed that Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Conclusively, school is not a scam and this mindset must be debunked from our society so as to enable our youth to value the dignity of labour and also our ruling class must set the tide of development order so as to restore the dividends of education.
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