Stop ruining knowledge and education for us.

‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest’

Benjamin Franklin.

I stood in a never-ending line for 3hrs last week trying to pay for my education. I stood there and wondered if this was what I was working for and if this was all worth it. Instead of sleepless nights, I was having a restless day and a night that was not long enough to teach myself how to become a graduate. I know it’s a pandemic and all but have I employed myself now or am I on some unknown payroll of some sort. I am going to seemingly blame the failing education system on the pandemic for now.

It’s funny how covid has brought with it these horrible teaching methods.

It’s even funnier how it has created a space impossible for open dialog between a student and their lecture in tertiary institutions now.

It’s just ridiculous how it has become the self-taught graduate system and when they mark us, they do it like we had 6 hours of teaching.

We are being deprived of a right.

 It’s pretty still odd to know that in a world where education has become the pinacol of development. Its common knowledge to know that for one to advance and bring the change they have to be well aware of the world around them and how to tackle the problems that come with it. So why is it that someone sees no necessity in allowing everyone to be equipped with this mega weapon?

I would like to think that anyone that believes a person can be deprived of their right to education is committing a crime against humanity. Everyone deserves the opportunity to have a basic education, it should not even be a luxury because education in its manner is the solution.

“If you are planning for a year sow rice, if you are planning for a decade, plant tree; if you are planning for a lifetime educate people.”

Chinese proverb

Educating someone isn’t just a one-man investment, it does not just feed into one thing it feeds into countless necessities and people making life the growing cycle we have now. It pushes the need for progression. Through mechanical evolution we see how we went from man power we had the engine and from that engine, we are having electrical stuff. This is all coming in the name of learning when one is given the chance of being able to attain a certain level of education but is this right to die for education to remain wanting for that which you have paid for.

I have come across countless misconceptions on education some say you don’t need it in this country of ours but yet we see how they say education is the key to success when a whole CEO of a marketing company only has a Bible studies diploma to their name.

What does it have to say to me, the hopeful something-year-old teaching myself through a pandemic, grading my performance based on a video I came across on YouTube. Is it right that we are left wanting to proceed yet we see no near future where we succeed at what we are fighting so hard to attain? Lets go back to the day where you stood there with the admin door slammed shut in your face with the black bold letters that shout out NO FULL FEES NO REGISTRATION, and there you are standing with that financial statement in your hand that says your remaining balance is 20 bond. You curse at the system because you know you have that pocket change in your right back pocket but now you are going back to that endless line in the blazing sun and no sight of Freezits to quench an unfamiliar thirst of regret and envy. Is this the education so many of us dream of, hoping that one day you will have that hat placed on your head bestowing wisdom which is pretty ironic as it slowly turns into some type of jinx for the rest of your life? 

It’s sad how we have become accustomed to begging graduates, they say go to school work hard get your degree or diploma, and then you will be free. Giving us false hope of a dead system that paints red on all the heads of our degree holders. Well as for me I am sitting here giving myself one on one lessons on an unknown topic and feeding myself these academic STDs then at the end of it all I am judged by the works of what my hands were supposed to produce with reliance and aid.

Teacher teach me something.

I have my book opened on the first page,

It is blank and eager on receiving my tainted wisdom.

I am biting down on my Eversharp blue pen and staring down at the dead cold screen.

It shows me patterns of jargon that taunt my desperate mind,

Like a baby, I cry for it to feed me and allow me to suckle on it oozing knowledge,

But like a blank mind on a blank page, I desire guidance.

I look to my right and my left with the hope of being greeted by familiar faces,

But yet I am confined to my room and it’s a cold room filled with ignorance.

I sat there for hours looking at the Latin phrase vis major.

This reminds me that it is just me and the screen,

I dread clicking the glowing red button at that corner that says exercise.

What are we exercising, is it our right to not knowing being published and established by our own accord?

Now I go back to the lines that winded around in the parking lot like the intestines of a bloated giant.

This is what you get for having an outstanding balance of twenty bonds.

Pocket change I say but they say

NO FULL FEES NO REGISTRATION.

Now I am registered into an institution of clownery, bring out my pair of boots and a pink wig.

As stare back down at the blank screen urging,

Teacher teach me something before I conceive a child based on two fool’s fornication.

All_Humain

With this I conclude that we are the bearers of our education and future and we should stand for it advocating for the education we deserve.