The Importance Of The Nigerian Education System

The horror that that can induce is unimaginable. I have not gotten that image out of my head of years; something of that caliber will stay with me forever. I will always have that memory of laying on the classroom floor being beaten and kicked, the words that were being spat at me; they were horrible.

Recently, social media has been playing a big role in revealing some of the physical abuse that students suffer from, in the UAE. There is more than one video that shows boys between 9-13 years old, being beaten roughly by their teachers, going back home with a body full of bruises and scars.

Growing in a tiny family, I was raised with my brother who is 6 years older than me. My father was always away and my mother was very protective. My mother used to not let me play with kids outside thinking I would get hurt and if sneak out sometimes my brother would follow me and hit me and tell me to go back home. I was never allowed to talk to him. I was always shut down whenever I have a question to ask either him or my mom. When I grew up I started ignoring to ask questions. When I started going to school my teachers used to yell at me and say why I am so quiet and not answering any questions. And in my country hitting students in hands and legs is considered

Growing up in Ghana, West Africa in a large family, I was one of 9 children the 8th and the 4th girl; I faced a unique challenge in a culture where boys were the focus pertaining to proper education, not much thought is put in the education of girls, particularly in large families. As fate will have it, an incident in my early school years changed the pattern. My sisters attended the under- resourced public school, after completion of the high school education, they were given the choice by my father to go to a vocational school to learn a trade such as dressmaking, hairdressing etc. another option was to go a commercial school and learn to become secretaries. I believe this was supposed to be the course of my education. Incidentally, a teacher used a stick to hit my buttocks and ripped my flesh during my first year in school at a tender age of 7yrs old, this was the school my sisters attended, and my three brothers attended a preparatory school. I remember my father coming home from work that evening and my mother reporting the incident that had caused the cut on my buttocks; He picked me up, headed to the teacher’s house and confronted him to the point of almost assaulting him. Fortunately for the teacher, people intervened and protected him, due to this incident, my father enrolled me in the preparatory school my brothers attended, which eventually broke the cycle for myself and my younger sibling, who became the other beneficiary of quality education. Therefore,

“Sticks and stones may break bones, but words make psychological scars that never heal”(Mr. Turner). A play on the common idiom, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me.” Which was once used by parents universally to justify name calling and harsh words, now sheds light on the darker, often unseen wounds of words. These wounds and scars, both psychological and physical fall under abuse and can be ensured, worsened, or inflicted further by harmful social norms. Social norms are pushed on children from birth and throughout their life as an unwritten set of rules that all people must live by in their society. This string of abuse has left a countless number of victims in its wake and continues to do so till this day.

Subconsciously most adults tend to believe that the easiest way to deal with a disobedient child or person is to physically harm. This answer of violence more times than not stems from the anger a student caused in doing wrong. Justification for corporal punishment originates from the past and is often the defense of pro-corporal punishment advocates. Physical punishment can be traced back to ancient times exemplified in Egypt, concerning the slaves that built the pyramids, these deep roots of physical punishment are often referred to as a form of proof that it works. To use Egyptian violence as an example is pushing the envelope of what corporal punishment is today, however the reaction to that punishment is similar because human nature is present in both time periods. Punishment in and of itself is not inheritably detrimental to a person’s development, however in the case of school corporal punishment the extra violent input into a child can produce unintended violence later in life.

I was in my last year of secondary school when the teacher embarrassed me in front of my classmates. It was passed for about ten years, but I can still picture it as clear as yesterday, the memories somehow last until now. She was an English teacher, and what she did back then had nothing to do at all with English teaching. At the end of the lesson, she confronted me that I am cocky, arrogant, and has no respect for the elder. She mocked me that I am worthless and should learn how to be polite and courteous. I was shocked, I found myself helpless and busy to think what I did wrong to her.

Physical abuse is a violent way of maltreating an individual. When it happens to young girls, it impacts them negatively. The girl more often are brutally beaten by either their parents, other close family members or their peers, which, in turn, come to respond the same way after some time of building up the hurt. Physical abuse from parents or close family members make young girls emotionally troubled and cognitively disturbed. The aspect of them not doing anything about it, results them into copying what they see because they are used to it. Moreover, they see abusing somoen physically as the answer to their problems or getting what they want. It is in this way that young girls as well as boys tend to become brutal, violent and aggressive, which are acts that make them deviant as well as delinquent. Mersky, Topitzes & Reynolds (2012) state that developmental psychopathology holds that early childhood traumatic experiences tend to have deep intense impacts on functioning because the later development of a person is shaped by how earlier developmental elements were integrated. A very young girl witnessing physical abuse or being physically abuse is traumatic to her because she is young. The effect of this act makes the girl continue growing up with the bad thoughts and feelings and whenever a person reacts negatively towards her, the results are committing a

Toward the last days of my high school days, I was told that I was a troubled kid that needed serious disciplinary actions. I wished someone in school had understood my situation. I wished someone had spoken up for me. But it was their words against mine and mine was silent. I was not a troubled kid. I wished someone at school, the principal, the teachers, had read this quote by Annette Breaux, “Remember: everyone in the classroom has a story that leads to misbehavior and defiance. 9 times out of 10, the story behind the misbehavior won’t make you angry. It will break your heart”. Maybe then they might have explored deeper into my situation. My entire childhood was filled with isolation, abuse, and neglect. I was born in Hong Kong, the youngest

As a child, I was beat many times due to what I always believed to be misbehavior. Although there have been times where my beatings would be due to my disobedience, it was more than just that. It was primarily due to aggression that my father carried home from a stressful day. When I was younger, my sisters and I understood that once my dad arrived home from work, that we should be extremely cautious of everything we do. For instance, talking and playing too loud was frowned upon. His methods of violence included beatings with shoes, coat hanger, belts, and sometimes just anything he can grab his hands on. Looking back and understanding why my dad did what he did was due to stress. He was put under a lot of pressure trying to sustain and support family by making ends meat. He is self employed as a taxi driver, so there are days where he may make money, and other times where he may not. It’s almost as a gamble, due to no consistent income. Unfortunately he wasn’t aware on how to properly deal with his aggression. His aggression had lead me to hate as well as be scared of him. My healing process began as I grew older to defend myself.

Research over the past 40 years been remarkably consistent in showing that hitting children increases the chances of a child becoming physically aggressive, delinquent, or both. The research in this book leads me to conclude that corporal punishment leaves invisible scars that affect many other aspects of life.

Throughout the course of history, millions of children have been victims of physical abuse; it has been shown that the effects of this abuse can profoundly influence ones mental and physical health in the span of his or hers life.

I have always wondered what it would like to be from another country. Since, recently I have become a mother to a half Nigerian child; I wanted to know more about the culture. My first thought the climate was irregular than the United States. My second thought was when I decided for Ayolola (which means joy and strong) to meet her family it would have be when the temperature was fair. My third and final thought was Nigerian food was disgusted, however while with child, I became in love with the food. In this paper the reader will see Nigeria from a true native eyes, learn facts about Nigeria and lastly will receive my overall review of the country.

It is a common and well known saying that history repeats itself. This saying has more to it than the literal definition of it, it means we need to study it and learn from it, in order to avoid repetition. Often times we have that opportunity to study and learn from history in a way that can impact the future, in a hopefully positive way. In terms of education, improvement and innovation is always a top priority. If we can properly combine the study of other cultures with the study of history, we can have an extremely effective tool for learning ways to positively impact our own generation and future. In this essay, I will attempt to uncover the differences between current education and traditional African education, with intention of learning how to apply it today. The idea behind studying history is that it is a vital part of learning and adopting successful techniques and a good tool for avoiding the repetition of mistakes. If pre-colonial Africa can have success without the resources and technologies we have today, then it is valuable to invest time and effort in mirroring some of their methods.

In South Africa in the 1970s student organizations began to demand the end of Corporal Punishment [Department o f Education, 2000]Corporal Punishment was viewed as abuse in the classroom and by the 1980s “Education Without Fear” was a slogan developed by learners , educators and parents to campaign against the hitting of the children [Department of Education, 2002]. The use of Corporal Punishment persisted until the change in 1994.