WHY READERS ARE NO LONGER LEADERS

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Growing up, I was always reading because I heard people say readers are leaders.

That looked true then but now that we have more readers who have no idea what it takes to be a leader, I guess it now take more than just a reader to become a leader.

If readers are leaders, then the world would have become a better place than it is at the moment. When I talk about leaders, I don’t mean people who just occupy the position of leadership, leadership is following the right course of life and the ability to make people do the same without abusing their volition.

How many of those in positions of leadership know the right course and are willing to follow and make us do the same at will?

Are they not the leaders that the readers emulate and hope to be like one day?

So how do readers become leaders?

MISUNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION; THE BASIS OF CONTINUED POVERTY IN AFRICA

a young Lady who earns living as a
guitarist, she didn't need university
education to do that, the best she
 could do is to go to a music school but here in Africa,
 she probably will be considered
 a failure for not going to university.

My reason for taking this topic is to appreciate it that we have an understanding of education in Africa, unfortunately our understanding of education is an error; it can be well described as “MIS-education. When purpose is wrongly conceived then the process and results can never be adequate. What is Education? In my opinion, Education is the process of conscious mental development, moral development and development of aesthetic values through information. I guess you agree with me on that. At what point did we leave this responsibility to “whatever schools can provide” alone? What role does the family and society at large plays in regards to the definition education above? We have allowed school to define the character and life focus of our children because we fail in our definition of education. The school actually carries fewer burdens compared to the family and the society which they will return to after school years.

A SOCIETY IN NEED OF TRUE EDUCATION

students acquiring education but unsure of what the future holds

In when education becomes indoctrination, an essay published by The Guardian Newspaper on the 3^rd and 4^th of November 2015, true education was defined as: “the development of the mind and the whole being through learning and putting to work what was learnt” according to the writer, truly educated people are said to be: “people that are original, resourceful and creative, who dream dreams and think out of the box to attain their dreams and fulfill their passions. They are those that acquire the type of education that liberate their passions and help them to reach their set goals…”

In a society where some form of creativities and technicalities are crippled and relegated because we have been made to believe only failures do them.