dearpreye:


Bro, it's a deplorable and depressing trend. I've not watched the TV for more than 15 minutes at one seating for the past 6 months. I can't keep watching people who are making millions every day. Madness!

All I can do is surround my home with books and encourage my family to read. That's the best I can do.

Olarewajub:
Original Poster

ElPhenomenal:
Things changed

Dioxidane:


I'm sure if it was a thread about celebrities or any other ludicrous content of no present or future benefit(s) to them, you'll see them rushing to 'book space'... I shake my for youths of today...

Igwe Lalasticlala, please come and see this.

chi4ik4:
this your post is baseless and lacks fact. most of us still read & read as if our life depends on reading. come to university of jos & see how Josite spends their nights in the caferia reading without brake! IF U DON'T READ, MILLIONS OF NIGERIA STUDENTS STILL READ WITHOUT SEASON.

dfrost:


Public library? It seems you expect much from our present day government. The one in my area is covered in weeds, only mowed down when the place is rented out for parties. You can imagine that the library is surrounded by more than 13 primary and secondary schools (I can't give the exact figure).

Freemanan:
TOO LONG...




CAN'T READ

SAMBARRY:
exactly meanwhile in developed societies movies are an instrument of enlightenment or encouraging learning. Look at the movie akeelah and the bee.

I remember those days when we were kids we were so eager to watch speak out on nta.a debate programme on tv to help teens sharpen their debate skills and their intelligence but look at the thrash all over the tv.things of value that should educate and entertain kids and teens are no longer shown instead its aki and paw paw teaching kids how to steal another person's farm products and other nonsense.

Meanwhile its only few of this nollywood movie makers that are educated especially in the yoruba genre. A large number of them are illiterates and semi illiterates yet we expose children to learn from illiterates via nollywood home video

VickyRotex:


"The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be".
-MARIANNE E. NEIFERT

chinnyonwu:

What exactly is wrong with the bolded?
So you believe you are more intelligent and superior just because you type in full?
I write like that and i can still write in correct grammar when its needed.
It's just a way of saving time or energy punching less stuff on your keypad.
Quick question, when your lecturer is dictating notes in class,do you write out everything in full?
If NO, do you use the same shorthands in your exam?
You guys should concentrate more on people using wrong tenses and spellings.
A lot of the "superior" whites have trouble with "their" and "there" , "your" and "you're". <<Sagamite , Joseph1013 take note.

NB. I wrote in Full incase you have troubles understanding shorthand. Lol

2scorehigh:


Hahahaaa... in that case, there's fire on the mountain!



Well, lemme call Wande Coal.

oyeezah:
even the so-called kiddies' programmes nowadays only have avenues for singing and dancing competition, nothing academic to enhance their intellectual development. the solution starts with the families controlling what their kids are exposed to. gone are the days when parents bought books for their kids, all what most parents are concerned with these days is to make their kids stand out in terms of clothing and possession.

An2elect2:


The men are not better....most of them are dumb as f.uck.

chinnyonwu:

What exactly is wrong with the bolded?
So you believe you are more intelligent and superior just because you type in full?

I write like that and i can still write in correct grammar when its needed.
It's just a way of saving time or energy punching less stuff on your keypad.

Quick question, when your lecturer is dictating notes in class,do you write out everything in full?
If NO, do you use the same shorthands in your exam?

You guys should concentrate more on people using wrong tenses and spellings.
A lot of the "superior" whites have trouble with "their" and "there" , "your" and "you're". <<Sagamite , Joseph1013 take note.

NB. I wrote in Full incase you have troubles understanding shorthand. Lol

dfrost:


Word! @ the bolded. Preach on sister.

Do we all remember Do It Yourself on NTA?

Press Club in secondary schools then was the rave of the moment.

Cursive writing was one of my best things in primary school then. I think like one of the posters suggested, we need to take it up on ourselves to preach the word. We can discuss on how to create a Union to setup private libraries (if not possible, then e-libraries).

Freemanan:
TOO LONG...




CAN'T READ

VickyRotex:


Good Morning dfrost!

Thanks for the mention

@bolded, you nailed it. That's one of the major cause of what we're experiencing right now.

Parents no longer lead by example.

Some Parents no longer have time to train their wards. All they crave for now is money, how to beat their colleagues in social status et al.

Most Parents don't even read, so how do you expect such parents to imbibe the reading pattern in their kids?

Now, most Parents believe whatever their child is taught in school will do, without going extra mile.

I'm so grateful to my parents, who imbibed values in us.

They shared it. My mum handled Spelling and dictation. You return from school, rest your head, and off you go with her in the kitchen, spelling atleast 5 new words per day. Else, you know na


(Talk of Akeelah and the Bee movie, it was also a great motivation then. Seeing such a young girl with vibrant passion for spelling).


My dad, handled reading and understanding. You read Novels, Newspapers (He loves that so much), Academic books (especially Comprehension passages).
You just have to read, digest and understand, because you have to explain exactly what you read or summarize.

The annoying thing then was, you cant lie to my dad about what you read, because even before you read it, he has already done that. He practically lead by example.


He had this popular slang then. Whenever we're going to school, he'd say "Kawe e ooo" (Read ooo) It was so annoying, especially when he had to say it in the presence of my school mates. You know that feeling

Oh then, I thought we were been purnished, but whenever I look back, I see its all fruitful now.

My dad never told us to do things verbally, you just have to write, and when you write, it has to be in good English.


I personally imbibed his passion for reading books. I'm still learning and improving day by day. I'm not even near perfect, but I'm quite sure, I'm not where I used to be.

What am I saying? Parents are the fundamental causes of this lack of reading pattern in our youths. Coupled with what the society has become. And the reason is not far fetched. ""The family is the corner stone of the society""

There are other reasons for the present day degredation in reading, but I feel it's much better to address the root cause.

I'll end with this:

"The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be".
-MARIANNE E. NEIFERT


dearpreye, great contribution you have there. Quest for material things has taken away the reading culture from our youths.

The so called "Role Models" most youths attach themselves to, aint helping at all.

Sagamite:


What nonsense!

What time and energy are you saving?

The fact you have to re-engineer your brain to select substitutes is enough energy wasted.

Talk less of the extra effort the reader would have to employ too decode it.

It is pure mental laziness and interest in being "current".

Checking through your post history, it does not even appear as if you use textspeak.

joseph1013:

[b]Of course, tenses and spellings are issues with the poorly-educated kids in Nigeria. However, we can do all of these corrections at the same time. They do not have to be mutually exclusive.

That the 'whites' have issues with certain words do not mean they do not have a better grasp of written communication than people like yourself.

As an aside, I've interacted personally with a number of educated Westerners (Europeans & North Americans) both in the physical & the virtual world. I stay in Africa and I interact with educated Africans on a daily basis. I took time to go through the link sagamite shared about the kids discussing feminism later that day and I'm left with only one conclusion: we educated Africans are not as intelligent as the Westerners. Full stop.

You may crucify me for saying this but that's the only conclusion I'm left with.

I know IQ is not a failproof test of intelligence. I'm not even sure if I can harvest IQ scores for Africans & Westerners and compare but if there's a reliable method of estimating intelligence, we educated Africans will score lower than our western counterparts. You listen to a Nigerian professor talk, you listen to a British undergraduate student talk and you wonder who's smarter.

I've interacted with toddlers from both parts of the world and somehow, I think there's no difference in the level of intelligence. So where did the disparity in adulthood come from? I know it's nothing genetic but purely environmental. There's only one answer: our educational system.

What we do here is basically rote learning. That's why most Nigerian intellectuals won't pass simple elementary-grade tests in deductive reasoning.

Why am I bothered? Because that's why we're mostly ignorant and sheepish and in turn, that's why we're still underdeveloped. That's why we are easily fleeced. That's why someone like you will come out openly to criticize something that ought to be common sense.

We focus our energies on irrelevances like '[size=18pt]stunning[/size] picture of Fani Kayode's wife' and leave out the relevant stuff about national and individual development. We're products of a handicapped system and the handicapped system is a product of our brains. [/b]

chinnyonwu:

@bolded, compare those two statements and check who the mentally lazy person is.

Answer naa, when your UK lecturers dictated notes back then, did you and all your mates write every single thing they said out in full?
How people choose to write or speak is not the least of our problems in 9JA right now! At all at all... As long as theres communication. Period

So i am irritated that all of a sudden a group of silly people feel everybody is daft and unemployable simple because they dont type in full.
...Abi did you see them use textspeak in their CVs?

Thats how one yeye girl thought i was a villager because I spoke more Igbo than English... Then chinnyonwu took her to the cleaners.

murmee:
Exactly what the OP is just saying. If you find the OP's essay too long to read and understand how would you then be interested in reading a literature of any kind. SMH.