By CHRIS AGBOLA
Columnist
We live in a society where there is a reason for everything that happens. According to our society, everything but ourselves are responsible for the challenges, plight or adversity we face in one way or the other.
There haven’t been many talks about the extinction of a good education like now. More individuals attain degrees and qualifications in the shortest period of time now than ever, but has folish conduct seen a decline? Certainly not! Society is filled with individuals who go through school without being schooled.
As they begin to gain a high sense of knowledge (via books), they seem to lose the common sense that makes one fit well into society. I think what has been lost in the educational process is student responsibility. I am a millennial as most of you who will read this article and as such I know my viewpoint is unlike what our generation is dubbed as. We are the young, wild and free generation so truth said to us must be sugar-coated. Well, I’d try to say things as how they are for me. After I’m done outlining my points, I’d put my millennial coat back on. So I’d briefly about student responsibility.
Ranting and nagging are incessant on diverse issue such as: why doesn’t the government deal with this; why do we have to pay such high taxes; why are cops everywhere nowadays; why is this class so hard and why are the RA’s conducting room checks frequently?
We fail to look beyond these external factors and seem to be pointing fingers at why we should achieve success. Why has there been so much upsurge in looking at meaningless factors when things go wrong? Has technology taken personal responsibility for life from the society? Or there has just been a new breed of folks who are psychologically setup that way?
About two weeks ago, there was article about how lecture based learning is ineffective. With no intentions at picking on the writer, why can’t we view it from the point of how students have been apathetic to the learning process nowadays?
All you hear of is the professors, teachers and stakeholders making the educational process difficult. Where is the student fault in the story?
The educational process is held to gether by both parties. Each should adequately play their roles for its success. Students for instance should know what kind of learners they are be it auditory, visual or kinesthetic. As such, they would employ their learning techniques in such regard to grasp efficiently the content of the coursework rather that blaming the professors.
Another area of student responsibility should be approach to attending classes. In colleges per se, due to the fact that no one asks the students to go to class, some of them choose to when they want to do so. Well, you don’t expect to pass those classes. And the professor is not the reason. You are!
The use of technology has disrupted the schooling process even though it has its merits. All I’m saying is let that tweet, snap or text wait when you’re in class. No one dies keeping their phones away for 50 minutes. That way, you’d better understand what is being thought.
Students will have to develop discipline, prioritizing, focus, determination and learning of basic values that are not thought in class. That way, society will be a better abode with well-rounded schooled individuals.