Have you ever wondered why many people succeed in school and when outside school, they are nothing to write home about? Or have you ever wondered how many people fail in school, and when they get outside school, they become stars? Merely thinking about this could be hazy as to which should have more of your priority.
To some people, not everyone who succeed in school will succeed outside school. An example of this is a student who is known as the school champion: a whizkid, a bookworm, coming out every semester with good grades. This student is always the one who leads in every academic-related issues in school. This student is one who is loved and known by all and sundry for exploits. But as soon as this student graduates and starts seeking job opportunities, nothing fruitful is birthed. No company is willing to take him into their payroll. Even when he decides to go for a lower job, a job that is way below the degree he bagged in school: same story!
You will also recall the story of Olajumoke Orisaguna, the bread seller turned model. According to bloggers, she didn’t attend any school and was unable to even speak English as at the time she was called upon to be a model. A look at her now, you would come to concur that she is making it big with modeling, mind you: no formal education. In other words, she didn’t succeed in school but succeeded outside school.
That is on the flip side as I can definitely tell you that there are some people who as a result of their feats in school had their way paved for success in life. There are some people as a result of their NDs, their HNDs, their degrees, their masters, their PhDs are doing well in life. With this, the question now implodes in your face: should there be a talk about which is more important?
Here is the balance: everything worth doing is worth doing well. Even if you are the one sponsoring yourself in school, I’m very sure you worked for it either through involvement in menial jobs or working on the internet – although nocturnally, if you understand what I mean. In one way or the other, you worked for it. So the question is: why would you want your labor to end in vain when there are actually logical and balanced methods you could apply to be a champion in school and even outside school.
Friend, succeeding in school and succeeding outside school are interwoven, achievable and noble! Don’t be fooled thinking one supersedes the other. They run into each other. Check it and you would agree with me that the reason you are in school in the first place is to succeed outside school. So, in other words, the school is one of the bridges to a successful life: Why burn it?
Adeniran Moridiyat is an HND2 student of the department of Mass Communication
