I am your lecturer!

I grew up to understand that you do not disrespect elders. I was in a polytechnic where lecturers are thin gods and even brag about their ability to truncate destinies through mass failure and award of arbitrary marks. This epidemic and malicious practice have contributed to poor technological education like all other aspects of technology.

A friend of mine had to drop out of LASU after discovering he is more knowledgeable and technologically advanced than his lecturer. Listening to Larry Page about how Stanford will produce the next Google engineers coupled with the fact that Facebook started from a University. I always wonder if our lecturers can just keep quiet and give room for creative innovations.

This demonic practice by lecturers has made computer science students like others read to pass and not necessarily interested in competency. I was told by a friend that the best student in his class in a Nigerian University (name deliberately withheld) does not know how to format a laptop. No wonder we have not been able to produce high level technologically competent graduates.

A student of Yabatech was almost failed for disputing HTML codes with his lecturer. The docility of our academic staffs has truncated and declined the zeal and ability to acquire the right IT knowledge by young Nigerians.

NO LECTURER IS AN ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE!

 I will implore our lecturers to allow participative learning like what obtains in other part of the world. Young students will be more exploratory and interested in new technologies because they have no family pressure, limited responsibility and are eager to take risks. I understand our computer science syllabus is a bottle neck as well, but lecturers should please encourage their students to tow the path of individual competency.  Like I put it in my previous post;

“NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR DEGREE, WHAT YOU CAN DO IS THE ROOT OF IT”

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