WHAT EVERY STUDENT MUST KNOW AND WHY FIRST CLASS GRADUATE ARE THIRD CLASS CITIZENS
Days and Nights lighting the wax till it burn out. We have toiled it all with our strength. What we were told is to make good grade, to live great in life but this the athour of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" account as fallacy and fantasy of the Night, which disappeared when we actually faced the reality that grade is not an avenue for greatness, though it might earn you populace, or a page in the Magazine or dailies. But it doesn’t earn you respect in the Labour market. That is why the difference is always clear when it comes to "there and here". We have labour much than we thought without good CGPA, life is meaningless. I recounts all of this and I see that all is vanity upon vanity, sometimes the sanctity that earned us is restricted to our parents and siblings. Who care what your CGPA is? Who care what your Points speaks not even in this world or the world to come? No even in Nigeria institutions where the quest for survival have made forgery an apex business, some will even tell you " eni mo way, lo no we" (he that holds the pipe, dictate the tune). But all that matters is the revolution that occur with the CGPA, either to MAKE or MAR!!! It is all about your conscious choice.
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"Do all your hand finds to do, engage every effort you have to gain what you want" these were the words of our parents, guardians, mentors, and teachers/lecturers, they are good angel for us they don’t want us to be victim as they were due to their grade, but the system have change from those days, if it was not so, what happened to days when companies solicit for graduate for employment? When encouragement is given to them at their no working state? Today, vacancy notification doesn’t necessary mean the company need employees, it is Promotional Strategy. We were taught to play it safe but that is not how the system want it, I don’t meaning negatively taking it, but take a positive behaviour for it. Neither did I advote that our toil for good CGPA is wrong, but let as well divert those forces that help making CGPA into something worth advancing the economic of our dear country.
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I don’t believe in the fantasy of first Class graduate becoming a bike Man, or Graduate becoming this and that even an all rounder illiterate wouldn’t choose becoming, I am still not persuaded by the beliefs every one held to that "if you don’t know authorities in Nigeria you may not secure Employment", and may more of the fantasies that have been created in our heads, though their is Law of Association, which fasten one journey. Though we see far sit on the shoulders of giants, but we shouldn’t be dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel, and the only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." To be rich and wealth are two anonymous course. Their is always different between the pride of School gives and Education pays. Let me cite and example, the only time we get Educated as provided by our system is Nine month range, which is the Period of NYSC, that’s why the government pay without charging tax(not sure), but school you pay more without even knowing, though the knowledge is an asset, but never shall a first Class certificate holders be a first Class CITIZEN, not in this system or anywhere in the world because only the Educated are first class Citizens every where in the world, this is a matter of Wisdom or knowledge.
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Without doubt CGPA Means;
C-ommon
G-race/Grade every
P-erson
A-rrive
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That is why even the unserious as though could arrive at it because it is common, every person may have what you have, it might not be the same manner but it is still same CGPA. To make it uncommon is what you do with, what you convert it into and make out of it. Turn it to value to improve your living and help the country at large, that is why Lower or second/third class are why you are living Low life, it is because you choose to live as such, neither is First class or Upper/Distinction make you live distinctly but the choice you make with, if you believe that first/distinction/upper graduate are into Biking and small business, that is who their personalities choose to become, and live as. Convert your CGPA into some thing worth pursuing.
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Imagine you have 3.45, see it as though you have 3.45 Billion Dollar Worth, and, or whatever you may have as CGPA, convert them to Worth and work harder towards it, with this simple logic you can make it Commodity Grace/Grade only the intelligent Person Arrived.
Opeyemi Daniel O. DUROTOYE writes