This
First Class Thing
It is arguable that no generation in
education has ever witnessed the much criticisms the First Class Honors gets in
this present generation, and to be projective, it doesn’t promise to not
escalate. I mean, in education we are heading towards that generation when you
may be shy to tell someone you graduated with a First Class—especially when it’s
been a while you graduated and you are yet to figure out a thing to do with
your First Class.
But if we’ll be sincere, is it fair? Is it
fair how the honor we give a First Class graduate lasts but just for when they
are still the freshest graduate around? Knowing that people who graduate with
the First Class (especially in schools likes OAU), must have missed most part
of “life” in their pursuit of the First Class, and then they enter the world
after leaving school only to be novices of so many things that aren’t so
related to books; things employers and investors now look for in the ones they
want to be interested in.
Who needs the First Class to be a Hushpuppi?
Who needs the First Class to be a Linda? Who needs the First Class to be a Dele
or the Otedola? Little wonder we now have the Second Class and the Third Class
graduates ending up being the bosses of most of the First Class graduates.
Little wonder the First Class loses its honor just about a year or two after
graduation and the holder still wanders around in search of what to do and how
to fit in the social world they segregated themself from so they could get the
First Class.
The devaluation of the First Class and its holder
is a serious educational problem which will sooner or later definitely have a
hard hit on the society, its economy and everything else; and to be blunt, the
government is not noticing this problem yet; or maybe they do, and they just do
what they do to many other problems they notice—nothing! If you are that First
Class pursuing student, this is to let you know it’s not a bad thing you’re doing
wanting to be among the very few students who will be standing tall in the apex
position of their class. Like, isn’t that what education, school and
examinations are for in the first instance? To discriminate the best from the
rest. Just do your thing and keep chasing that which you desire. But as you do
that, don’t forget to live, as what you learn from living is what paves ways
for you nowadays, not necessarily what’s on your paper-certificate anymore.
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