I Hate School
I hate school.
Actually, I have always hated school.
I hated the early mornings - baths, breakfasts and being bundled to school.
I hated the homework, tests, examinations and stern faces of teachers.
When it rains in the morning and I joyfully think I've been saved, my mother almost magically brings out umbrellas and raincoats. I learnt there was no escaping this thing called school.
Having a nurse as a mother didn't help matters when I try to 'form' ANY type of sickness. She appeared to have medicine for any kind of ailment I could think up. And quite frankly I didn't think up that many because as fate would have it, I also hated injections (as a matter of fact I still do, but that is another story…)
Suffice it to say that I was literally forced to go to school by what I felt were 'dictatorial' parents.
I longed for when I would be old enough to refuse to go to school. But a different issue arose when I grew up…
I now realised what my parents knew all along - SCHOOL WAS IMPORTANT!
So now I understood that going to school could provide one with better opportunities and options in life. Although I still hated school, I learnt to tolerate it. And this I did through graduate and post-graduate school.
It was not until almost a decade later that I realised a very interesting paradoxical fact - even though I hated school, I loved learning.
To attempt an unraveling of the paradox, consider the following statement. There can be learning without a school, but there can not be a school without learning.
Learning, is therefore what broadens our horizon with opportunities. Learning makes us better craftsmen, statesmen and businessmen.
The more we learn, the more we know; the more we know, the more we achieve; and the more we achieve, the more we learn…
Unless you are a real divinely ordained prophet, all skills, knowledge and abilities that help one navigate and succeed in life have to be learnt.
It is clear, therefore, that learning is THE skill. It is the mother of all skills without which nothing else matters.
The importance of learning is underscored by Brian Tracy who asserted that to earn more, you must learn more; and also Peter Drucker who opined that learning was the most important skill of the 21st century.
It is imperative that we learn not only better ways of learning, but how best we learn.
I love learning and the beauty of it all is that today I need not go to a school to learn. I could do so from the comfort of my room, on my iPad with an internet connection.
What was your experience? What has changed? What remains the same?
Abdullahi
Global Accredited Mind Map Trainer
Founder, MindZone
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