tglobal:
You don't learn life hacks in the four walls of a classroom! In fact, most useful education occurs outside the four walls!

Education isn't physics, maths or economics and you don't need to have formal education to be able to manage your finances. All you need is to know your limitations and find experts who can help you and this comes from exposure.

I have heard people talk about US , UK with reference to education and I wonder if they really know what they are talking about. A cursory look at the education budget in these countries or the ratio of international students to home grown students will make the truth clearer.

I will give you a personal anecdote: I worked for 4 years as an analyst in an investment bank before leaving the UK and I found one curious thing: The heads of my trading team didn't see the four walls of a university! they started their careers as boys who were passing trading punch cards in the exchange, mastered it and they are top investment bankers today. In the grand scheme of things, classroom education didnt help them, rather they found their passion, reinvented themselves and they are where they are today.

I make bold to say that what makes these societies tick is specialization. People developing skills relevant to their passion. Why should a Jay Jay Okocha worry about not mastering mathematics when he could devote more time in honing his dribbling skills? Does that mean you can cheat him in business? Certainly not! Why? business skills are not taught in the classroom.

The earlier we do away with our worship of "formal education" in our country, the better for us. Education doesn't begin and end in the classroom, shikena! Advanced countries realize this and they are rewarded for it!

The earlier we helped children identify their passion and support them, the better.



I have so much to say about this matter just not able to type now

goldfish80:
Am of the opinion that football should go hand in hand with education. When I say education, I mean atleast senior high school.
The elite academies in the world have entrenched in their modus operandi education and football mixed together.

Here is an except of the famed Barcelona mestalla operation ;



The gospel truth is that when kids are starting out you never can tell how far they could go in professional sports. Kids need a good education foundation so they have a fall back option if it all goes South. A tiny % of kids admitted into academies actually make it to the professional level.
Nothing is guaranteed in football or any professional sports. If world class academies adopt this strategy, who are we to disagree with them since the results are starring us in the face.

safarigirl:
you need to be interested before you want to do any of that, and you need to be talented as well.

Everybody wanted to be one of those at some point, but how many people went on to practice them? There are many people with a certificate in those fields who don't use them, so, how the education come help them?

BascoVanVeli:


If football can stop wars, why can't it help us educate our children? We should not just sit down and allow children to go without basic education. Yea guys will drop out but at least they would have been given a chance and can decide for themselves.

Icon4s:


Time management for teenagers.

You want to turn them to robots. Haha haha they will react by rebelliousness or revolt.

You have never had to deal with teenagers so you won't understand this.

safarigirl:
some are not slow learners, they are just NOT INTERESTED in learning. Kpomkwem.

Reality is that NOT EVERYONE will embrace formal education, all this go to school talk is honestly boring. No be everybody wan go school.

I attended a public secondary school and let me tell you that I knew guys who would never pick up a book, but give them a ball and watch the magic happen. They passed fine and good, but na other people brain dem use

Passing exams also does not mean someone is LEARNING, believe it or not, many of these boys will find shady means to pass and these academies could take them in courtesy of falsely gotten good grades. Is that helping anybody?

Getting a formal education does not and will never equate to learning. Learning can only be done where there is an actual interest.

So, while this method may have worked abroad, you need to realise that what works for America may not work for Nigeria

safarigirl:
another point I wanted to make. I have seen so many talents die out because of this cursed formal educatiom of a thing that just sucks out everything that makes one human.

Formal education turns you to a robot, restricted only to whatever books tell you, it rarely allows for flexibility.

You cannot serve two masters at the same time, either football suffers or academics suffer. Even the America that makes players combine the two, most of those guys graduate with extremely average results. Nothing spectacular, and even to get those, they have to stretch themselves thin.

Many of them drop out of college once they get snapped up by professional clubs.

Honestly, formal education is overrated. Talent will get you success and greater sense of happiness and fulfillment over something in a book.

Some people just have talent with books, hence their success with it...such people are rarely ever good at playing any sport to be honest.

Why don't we also make athletics a mandatory requirement for book smart people, we'll see if they excel

goldfish80:
Am of the opinion that football should go hand in hand with education. When I say education, I mean atleast senior high school.
The elite academies in the world have entrenched in their modus operandi education and football mixed together.

Here is an except of the famed Barcelona mestalla operation ;



The gospel truth is that when kids are starting out you never can tell how far they could go in professional sports. Kids need a good education foundation so they have a fall back option if it all goes South. A tiny % of kids admitted into academies actually make it to the professional level.
Nothing is guaranteed in football or any professional sports. If world class academies adopt this strategy, who are we to disagree with them since the results are starring us in the face.

do4luv14:
Pls oooo wia sir THESUPERNARD, mak him come help me for SAFARIGIRL matter asap,

the babe dey mak body do me mini-mini wana wan

terzurum5:


The Way Sir Bascovanveli was goin about the argument. I just sensed he has not had a practical teaching experience. In theory there is no dull child, but when you take a teaching job where you are exposed to some ''Olodocious dull students'' hmmmmm your toley go change.

Allow those who want to play football to use the most part of their time training and undergoing ''Drill'' if he fails he can become a mechanic, carpenter, shoe cobbler, welder, farmer, etc

TheSuperNerd:
Forgotten Eagles Ace Joel Obi Shows Class For Torino In Derby Draw Against Juventus




Serie A champions in waiting Juventus escaped derby defeat at the hands of their city rivals Torino thanks to a late goal from Gonzalo Higuain which helped them to a 1-1 draw at the Juventus Stadium.

Adem Ljajic gave Torino the lead in the 52nd minute but five minutes later they were reduced to 10 men following the sending off of Afriyie Acquah for two bookable offences.

Juventus made use of the numerical advantage as Torino tired out late into the game, which allowed Gonzalo Higuain the space and time to draw his team level two minutes into time added on after regulation time.

Despite the disappointment of conceding late into the game, the performance of Nigerian midfielder Joel Obi was one of the positives for Torino in the tie.

Obi was introduced for the injured Daniel Baselli in the 76th minutes, and the former Inter Milan midfielder proved his worth with a solid showing in the final 14 minutes of the game.

The highlight of his performance was a clean tackle late into the game to deny Juventus a clear chance at goal. Obi also helped his team keep possession under pressure with neat and tidy touches.


**Osas Mahawi


Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/05/06/forgotten-eagles-ace-joel-obi-shows-class-for-torino-in-derby-draw-against-juventus/

TheSuperNerd:
Forgotten Eagles Ace Joel Obi Shows Class For Torino In Derby Draw Against Juventus




Serie A champions in waiting Juventus escaped derby defeat at the hands of their city rivals Torino thanks to a late goal from Gonzalo Higuain which helped them to a 1-1 draw at the Juventus Stadium.

Adem Ljajic gave Torino the lead in the 52nd minute but five minutes later they were reduced to 10 men following the sending off of Afriyie Acquah for two bookable offences.

Juventus made use of the numerical advantage as Torino tired out late into the game, which allowed Gonzalo Higuain the space and time to draw his team level two minutes into time added on after regulation time.

Despite the disappointment of conceding late into the game, the performance of Nigerian midfielder Joel Obi was one of the positives for Torino in the tie.

Obi was introduced for the injured Daniel Baselli in the 76th minutes, and the former Inter Milan midfielder proved his worth with a solid showing in the final 14 minutes of the game.

The highlight of his performance was a clean tackle late into the game to deny Juventus a clear chance at goal. Obi also helped his team keep possession under pressure with neat and tidy touches.


**Osas Mahawi


Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/05/06/forgotten-eagles-ace-joel-obi-shows-class-for-torino-in-derby-draw-against-juventus/

Mujtahida:

There's a difference between SCHOOLING and EDUCATION. The Latin root word 'educere' from which the English word education is derived means to bring out that which is within. Formal, structured school form of education is not for everyone. We spend our lives being put in a box called school, constrained, pressed within the boundaries of what has been or what somebody wants us to be(later dem will be singing 'think outside the box, think outside the box' when them don use school box in your natural mojo forgetting say old cat cannot learn new tricks). Our natural flair most times is shunted, unrecognised and left to wither and die. But we fail to recognise that book intelligence is not all there is as far as the subtle quality called human intelligence is concerned. Our educational system must be expansive enough to cater to different kinds of people.
still it's very, very important that everyone is literate, that everyone learns to read and write (not necessarily through formal schools) and for footballers it is crucial because football has a short lifespan. (Zinedine Zidane was reported as feeling lost when he retired from football - Segun Odegbami said so on Channels TV when he was talking about Rashidi Yekini). It would require creative, intelligent and even weird kind of teachers to teach footballers basic English and mathematics.

BascoVanVeli:


So u even think a footballer can't learn English and Maths like u and i? The problem is that people know the power footballers could have in Nigeria and keeping them uneducated is the only way to slow them down.

BascoVanVeli:


Some of our teachers are weak. They don't even try to get through to children. Every child does not learn at the same pace, there is no such thing as a dull child, only in Nigeria is it accepted to call children dull. I know people who were bad students before they found their way and are now successful in life. Even if u don't agree with my idea u should always remember that no child is a dullard.

BascoVanVeli:


Some of our teachers are weak. They don't even try to get through to children. Every child does not learn at the same pace, there is no such thing as a dull child, only in Nigeria is it accepted to call children dull. I know people who were bad students before they found their way and are now successful in life. Even if u don't agree with my idea u should always remember that no child is a dullard.

krattoss:
this guy is one hell of a guy am yet to decipher yet..is he an upcoming talent? talented payer? class or world class?
he does like a chameleon.. always changing every minute..no thanks to injuries.. but am still yet to find out whether we can still reckon on him in no time..

abeg thegoodjoe,supernerd,icon4s, etc abeg make una help me clear the air on this guy..

CAN HE BREAK INTO THE CURRENT EAGLES SQUAD NOW?

Mujtahida:

I agree with you 100%-No child is dull. The worst form of stigmatisation is to label a child-I mean this unfolding promise, this sprouting shoot,this free, happy guarantee of the future -dull, dundee or olodo. It's unpardonably criminal and monstrous to use such words to trap the burgeoning consciousness of a child, your child, any child, to stamp such a fruit bearing word on the pliable mind of a child. We shouldn't do it and we should not let others do it to any child(the story is told of how Thomas Edison's teacher labelled him 'addled '. His mother, obviously a wise woman took him out of school and homeschooled him and gave the world the genius of her son)
There are only ignorant adults who do not or have not recognised the inner genius of a child. There's a way each child should be trained to go but the problem is that not many parents have that eye to see what is not obvious. What is lacking is insight.
We are all unique but it takes hard work, dedication and care to create an educational system that will take into consideration the uniqueness of each child. That's the challenge for parents, for teachers, for educators.

tbaba1234:

Vanzekin is no longer playing?

tbaba1234:
The career of a sports person is short. Some get cut short by injury and some never make it to the professional ranks. Those that make it professionally have about a little more than a decade to earn as much as they can.

When it is all over, they need something to fall back to.

That is why education is important.

During their playing time, they can get coaching badges, degrees or professional certifications that set them up for life after football.

Having a good secondary school foundation will help them push forward later.

Your physical attributes fade quicker than your knowledge. They can have another career for 20-30 years after football.

krattoss:
this guy is one hell of a guy am yet to decipher yet..is he an upcoming talent? talented payer? class or world class?
he does like a chameleon.. always changing every minute..no thanks to injuries.. but am still yet to find out whether we can still reckon on him in no time..

abeg thegoodjoe,supernerd,icon4s, etc abeg make una help me clear the air on this guy..

CAN HE BREAK INTO THE CURRENT EAGLES SQUAD NOW?