DOOMED… DON’T BE DOOOOOOOMED FOREVER

Mike Ihezuo

Sometime ago, I was a guest in a meeting and I was speaking to young people of school age.

I believe that there are many people who are involved in the process of developing a child vis-a-vis tomorrow leaders. They include the systems (educational, cultural, religious, social, technical and technological) , parents, teachers, child itself, and society. I believe teachers contribute much to doooooooomness just like parents do, perhaps more than the systems , children themselves and the government. I believe so!

I told them in love the plane truth, the classic reality of The Time We Are Livin’ In (theme appears carved from my book title) that;

* WHEN young people don’t want to read books but want the certificate that they’ve read, they’re doooooooomed and deceived.

*WHEN young people love big marks but hate big hardwork, they’re doooooooomed.

* WHEN young people don’t like the priCe but like the priZe, they’re doooooooomed and shortchanged.

* WHEN among young people 90% students (5% would have been tolerable) prefer their lecturers to write their projects at a consideration (cost) to pay; they’re doooooooomed

* WHEN young people pay money to lecturers so as to collect previous years projects’ or seminars’ reports and to re-present them again only to change title page by inserting new name, they’re doooooooomed and their society is doooooooomed more.

* WHEN young people about 95% of students return previous year’s projects to a compromising Lecturer and any Lecturer that insists on original work; becomes the one petitions for change of supervisor will be written against (and branded a difficult Lecturer), they’re doooooooomed.

* IT’S same spirit that some of young people senior teachers (called professors) rig elections for politicians (who have established the facts that every body is same ten and ten pence – corrupt), thereby making the society doooooooomed.

* WHEN young people as students organize beers, “nkwobi”, “isi ewu”, suya and hangout/hotel for lecturers with 1 babe on right and 1 babe on left, so that during exam marking, their 2% exam score (F: Failed ) turns out to 80% (A: Excellent ), someone is doooooooomed. If you’re a medical, you’ll be disaster waiting to occur.

* WHEN young people see and say Lecturer who compels them to earn their mark is the wicked one and other that score their money is a good Lecturer (can a student give gift to teachers? Yes, but not to be abused or serve as bribe), they’re doooooooomed.

* WHEN young people’s teachers don’t have a touch/knowledge of how the industry you’re going into looks like, but keep teaching 1 or 2 weeks lectures as 15 weeks lectures, they’re doooooomed.

* WHEN you’re for instance, reading a course say Computer Science but your Lecturer, HOD or Supervisor is BSc, MSc even PhD in Mathematics or Office Management Technology, you’re enroute to singularly and compoundly doooooooomed.

* WHAT I just said now applies to all of you in other courses – law, science, arts, management, media, medicals, etc; ensure that those teaching you any course read it to the required level and understand industry applications of same, otherwise you’re; paying school fees, contributing to State Government /LG / proprietors IGR and unwittingly wasting years for nothing when already doooooooomed. Nigeria government keep building universities and polytechnics without asking for manpower for managing human capacities.

* WHEN young people pay for special centres in SSCE and submit each answer scripts with N2000, you’re doooooomed.

* AND on and on… my dear students.

Life is govern by PRINCIPLES and POWERS. Principles are rules or laws set by God. One of the principles is *life is seed, words are seeds, every seed you sow, you must reap* (harvest) .

+ No wrong practice can produce a good principle.

+ No nonviable seed can produce a healthy fruit.

+ If you sow EVIL, Sin and CORRUPTION, you reap a harvest of its type.

Have a nice time.

Dr Mike.

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