Foremost lawyer, Aare Afe Babalola(SAN), who is the founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti,(ABUAD) has written off the lackadaisical state of the country’s education system and it’s ubiquitous effect on graduates being churned out on yearly basis.
At Boluwadoro Local Government area of Osun state where he spoke at a reception for Prof. Damiola Olawuyi, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Research and Strategic Partnerships of the institution, Babalola categorically stated that Nigerian graduates have become more dangerous than the uneducated ones in the society.
He said:
“The common saying is that ignorance is a disease. I do agree. Indeed, poor education is worse than illiteracy. Poor education is even more dangerous than ignorance. But what do we have today?
Due to poor education, Nigeria is today producing graduates whose education makes them more dangerous than uneducated people. Today, Nigeria produces graduates who cannot write simple and correct sentences; graduates who do not understand the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
We have graduates who do not know the place and import of prepositions in grammar; graduates who do not know the use of adjectives and adverbs; graduates who do not know the place of agreement of nouns and number; graduates who do not know the import of adjectival and adverbial clauses.
There are graduates who do not know the difference between Tropics of Cancer and Tropics of Capricorn. There are those who do not know Magellan line, that is, the line that divides the earth into two.
There are many graduates who do not know the distance between the earth and where the rain starts to fall. There are also those who do not know why we have day and night or the difference between Neap or High Tide or the fact that what is called heaven consists of billions of stars and different planets.
“Whereas our towns will only be better if we have quality education, our nation will be better if we have quality education, and the world will be better if we all have quality education,” he said.