03/09/2025
17 YEARS OF WASTING TIME IN THE NAME OF SCHOOLING
Why Spend 17 Years in School Only to Graduate and thinking of being employed? Think about it.
From nursery to primary, Secondary school to college, university. The minimum years an African child spend in school is about 15 years just to graduate and think of being employed? Who to blame? is it the education system or the graduates? What are we being taught in 15 years of studying, reading, memorizing and passing tests and exams?
Now think of the 15 years of waking up early, wearing uniforms, cramming textbooks, writing exams… only to graduate into a world that doesn’t even respect the paper you’ve collected.
And what are we taught in those years?
The same outdated syllabus recycled data, books written beyond our perimeters. We study for exams, not for life.
We memorize theories, not skills.
We’re tested on what we can remember, not on what we can create. That's why in Africa if you don't speak good English you are not educated, if you have never been to University/College you are not educated no matter how much you may have money, they will always say, yes they have money but education very important; This is the more reason we speak good English with empty stomachs.
Now after spending 15 years in school the time you finish, technology has already changed everything you learned. The jobs you were preparing for? Gone. The industries you studied? revolutionarized.
So you end up with thousands of graduates, caps in the air, gowns flowing, big smiles for photos… then silence.
No jobs. No opportunities. Just certificates hanging on walls like decorations for a party that ended too soon.
The irony? We call it “education.”
But what kind of education prepares you for a life that no longer exists?
Africa doesn’t need students who can pass exams after 15 years of school.
Africa needs young people who can adapt quickly, think critically, and create solutions now.
We don’t need 15 years of studying theories of agricul