WHAT’S RUNNING THEM INSANE?
The ‘them’ in this piece refers to the children in our primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. However, the reader may want to expand the coverage of the ‘them’ after reading the piece. Few days ago, I had been invited to partake in a brainstorming session to discuss the solutions to the myriad of problems facing quality education delivery in a particular state in Nigeria. It was a gathering of brilliant, serious minded people in education practice in Nigeria. These people were not interested in talking about theories; they were more involved with pinpointing problems and proffering workable solutions. We had been in the meeting for about two hours when a fairly elderly lady, obviously not younger than 60 years spoke for the first time at the meeting. She lives in the US and she comes into the country once in a while to do some education related work. She appreciated the brilliant contributions from the participants so far and quietly dropped the bombshell. She...
