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Reading and writing is pretty much your only tool to be able to communicate with
the world around you.
If you can read information, then you can understand the world around you.
If you can write then you can express your own opinions, so education is
absolutely important.
Reading and writing is important for everybody so that they can interact with
their environment absolutely.
How do you think education is in your country?
I'm from Nigeria actually and I went to elementary and secondary school in
Nigeria. I'm not really sure how to say education is except that I have something
to compare it with.
If you compare education in Nigeria with education in the West, i happened to go
to college in the United States and its a little bit different. There are more
opportunities, there are more facilities.
When you go to school there is a lab that is well equipped.
There is enough electricity for you to actually study in the library at night and
from experiments if you are into sciences.
In general if you are talking about the level of education like the teachers, they
are pretty much well trained and well qualified.
The biggest deficiency is the lack of amenities and the lack of facilities to
support the education that they give.
So if we don't have well equipped laboratories and we don't have materials
and computers and we don't have electricity then there is always that
barrier.
So that would be the major difference between education in Nigeria compared to
the West, which is what I have been able to experience because I went to school in
these two different places.
Very good, thank you.
Do you know anyone or have a friend that had to leave school to work?
People do that all the time, some people have combined working and going to
school together because thats the only way that they can afford their tuition or
for their living expenses.
I have friends and even I myself when I was going to college I had to have a part
time job to help myself out with my education.
But there are a lot of people who had to leave school because they couldn't afford
it and had to go and work absolutely, there are many many people.
They are too numerous to mention but the experience is that people usually have
to work and go to school for the balance and I myself had to do that when I was
going to college.
Thank you very much.