Jeux:
I just read a post on romance section and it got me wondering if a school cert holder can be said to be educated .

A primary school leaver is educated.

You guys should stop all this jokes about a primary school leaver being illiterate.

If they can be president in a certain country which "educated" are you looking for again?

Brunosamel:
Yes, it depends on the individual and how exposed he is intellectually, being educated is different from schooling...
I have a friend who is full of intellects, he can read very well, speak very well and write very well, he expose his mind with lots of books and activities, everything is has done are self thought and he understands life way better now some of our universities counterparts....

So the answer is yes, you can be a secondary school graduate and be educated....

I totally agree 🤝

Primary and secondary education is basic education.

So yes, he or she is educated.

Ability to read and write is the basic features of education.

Secondary school education is the education you need to survive in life so I will say yes you are educated with secondary school level. You are a high school graduate

Someone on Nairaland once defined education as :



EDUCATION = INFORMATION + APPLICATION


Truely this is what education means irrespective of your qualification.

A lot of forking retards on this thread

[More educated more than some uni or poly students parading themselves as graduate(quote author=Brunosamel post=100328502]Yes, it depends on the individual and how exposed he is intellectually, being educated is different from schooling...
I have a friend who is full of intellects, he can read very well, speak very well and write very well, he expose his mind with lots of books and activities, everything is has done are self thought and he understands life way better now some of our universities counterparts....

So the answer is yes, you can be a secondary school graduate and be educated.... [/quote]

stanliwise:
Yes
As soon as you're done with secondary school, according to how the curriculum was designed, you are fit and educated already to explore any part of literacy. That is called general education and in other sense literacy. Going to university or college means trying to go further and specialize.
Now that is all theory.

In the practical world, most notable in a country with shattered system of education like our country Nigeria, many people find it very difficult to believe one is a complete literate if he/she even have a university education. Simple reason is because most secondary school have very poor infrastructure to actually make a secondary school graduate a literate, with bad and underpaid teachers, bad curriculum planning, lack of laboratory and practical exercise for student to make meaning of what they were thought. This at the end of the day make people to want to believe a university graduate as educated(a literate) rather than a secondary school graduate.

But using university as a judgment for literacy is faulty, literacy and it real purpose means a person is able to read, write and do basic numerical and logical computation of every living with relative ease.

In conclusion, literacy is more a practical concept rather than anything tied to certifications and theories

I couldn't find an emoji for clap, I would have used it.....

Let me add the fact that the only certificate university dropouts who are now self thought Graphic designers, Ux/UI designers, Programmers amongst others is actually a WASSC

Schooling is not learning truly...

"Education is not reading different books or memorizing quotes formulas and poetry, it is training the mind to think in diverse ways" Albert Einstein...

Brunosamel:
Yes, it depends on the individual and how exposed he is intellectually, being educated is different from schooling...
I have a friend who is full of intellects, he can read very well, speak very well and write very well, he expose his mind with lots of books and activities, everything is has done are self thought and he understands life way better than some of our universities counterparts....

So the answer is yes, you can be a secondary school graduate and be educated....

You've spoken well.

Provided he can read, write and speak the official language

Yes if he or she can express his or herself perfectly with hood English without errors

Yes.
Some of these SSCE holders are actually educated but due lack of sponsorship they tend to remain like that.
SSCE holders throughout the regions are not the same but the ones from middle Belt and south west though not all western states can be referred as educated because there’s competition in education sector within those regions. Other regions you know the rest especially my people lol

What does it mean to be educated should be the question.....
You can have Masters degree and still act, think, and speak like an illiterate.

Certificate is not education, someone can hold the highest certificate yet not educated.
It purely depends on the individual.
Most of the global names we hear today attended only secondary education.

So yes someone with secondary school cert can be.

stanliwise:
Yes
As soon as you're done with secondary school, according to how the curriculum was designed, you are fit and educated already to explore any part of literacy. That is called general education and in other sense literacy. Going to university or college means trying to go further and specialize.
Now that is all theory.

In the practical world, most notable in a country with shattered system of education like our country Nigeria, many people find it very difficult to believe one is a complete literate if he/she even have a university education. Simple reason is because most secondary school have very poor infrastructure to actually make a secondary school graduate a literate, with bad and underpaid teachers, bad curriculum planning, lack of laboratory and practical exercise for student to make meaning of what they were thought. This at the end of the day make people to want to believe a university graduate as educated(a literate) rather than a secondary school graduate.

But using university as a judgment for literacy is faulty, literacy and it real purpose means a person is able to read, write and do basic numerical and logical computation of every living with relative ease.

In conclusion, literacy is more a practical concept rather than anything tied to certifications and theories

Nice submission 👍

Education is in the mindset and not some trash cert...

Sure. School cert is well educated.

What kind of question is this? For you to ask this kind of question, shows you are uneducated.
Even a first school leaving certificate holder (primary school), is educated.

DOM7:
If they can be president in a certain country which "educated" are you looking for again?

Some of our presidents and governors and ministers etc have dagbo secondary school certificates. Meaning secondary education is a very good education. Even some of this Chinese, Lebanese, Arabes and I dians working as expertises in Nigeria secondary graduates.

DOM7:
If they can be president in a certain country which "educated" are you looking for again?

Some of our presidents and governors and ministers etc have dagbo secondary school certificates. Meaning secondary education is a very good education. Even some of this Chinese, Lebanese, Arabs and Indians working as expertises in Nigeria and Africa are secondary school graduates.

Education is knowing little about everything in your environment, not necessarily having formal education.

Is this a question?

By the CFRN -Yes!

First of all, what does educated mean?

Educated in what ?

The only person who is not educated is the one who can't read, can't write and can't comprehend simple computations.....

Beverlyjean:
Absolutely.... University or college( usa) is basically for careers preparation

Another mistake Nigerians make, is thinking that graduates are only those that completed university education... a person that completed secondary school education is also a graduate

secondary school leaver spotted. stop consoling yourself with mediocrity.
Try all possible means and gain admission to the university and graduate.
E get why

Jeux:
I just read a post on romance section and it got me wondering if a school cert holder can be said to be educated .

Secondary is the real education. University is for learning a skill.

Unfortunately, in Nigeria we see university as education. This why people waste five years studying a skill they neither have interest in nor have enjoy. Then, after five years they start thinking of learning a skill.

With all due respect to Chief Awolowo andvhis good will, I believe his legacy of "free university education for all" has done more evil for us as a society than good.

University isn't for everyone. Agreed, university graduates (especially post graduates) are the intellectual elites of every profession and society.
They're innovators and sit at the top of the intellectual pyramid. However, people like this SHOULD only make up 5% (or even less) of a good society. Most of the jobs and problems are repetitive and generic.

For example, real software engineers are very few. Most software developers are just consumers of libraries and frameworks. Also, most of us just need tailors to sew something in vogue for us, we don't need a shiny new design that no one has ever seen. And so on and so forth.

Our government should remove hands from our universities and maybe polytechnics. They should focus on making our secondary school up to standard such that a student of public secondary school can write and pass waec and jamb without any extra lesson/tutorial or illegal centre. After that, everybody should go and learn mechanic, electrical, plumbing, tiling, hairdressing, baking, carpentry and even some white collar jobs like data analysis and web development.

Many of the jobs that require bsc today are just entry-level jobs that were meant for secondary school finishers in those days. All these bank cashier jobs are normally for waec holders.

TrustNone:
secondary school leaver spotted. stop consoling yourself with mediocrity.
Try all possible means and gain admission to the university and graduate.
E get why

Read your comment again, you'll see it isn't intellectual.

Capital "No"

naijadrivablog:
Yes na. Most of the "higher" institutions you attended are glorified secondary schools.

Make I no just call name.

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BIU Benin


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