MEDIOCRITY

What is Mediocrity? Mediocrity is the state of being average in quality, thinking averagely and lacking both good inspiration and flair.
Mediocrity affect people in different ways and in various situations. It could be in your career, education etc.
In Nigeria, unknowingly and unfortunately Mediocrity has find it way into our minds, into students mind. Learning has lost it taste because schooling now look like we are forced into it.
When I gained admission into tertiary institution and I saw some results of the previous years, I laughed at some scores, scores like 04/100, 19/100, 7/100. "How can someone get such marks even after doing tests and exams?"
Indeed how? It is caused most time by what our minds has been filled with. What your mind feed on would determine your output in life. We have been wired to believe that after schooling we won't get jobs so we just behave like robots in school.
Sometimes ago in a WhatsApp groupchat where I rub minds together with people, we were discussing unemployment in Nigeria. Then my people started raising interesting points, of how many people with good grades are on the street looking for jobs after struggling in school. The points were valid but we made it sound like having good grades is bad since you won't get a job with it. We were unknowingly saying that day that "bleep good grades, you can't even get a job without knowing influential people"
To a certain degree we were right, but a friend of mine Adedeji Bukunmi countered our theory that day. Yes, there is little or no job in Nigeria and good grades falling out but yet in this raving storm some decent people are still getting jobs.
She said something that day that I will never forget

"Get the good grades first and then worry about the job! Because some didn't get the job doesn't mean you can't get it"
I was stung by that sentence that day. The sentence simply means I should face the reason I'm in school and then worry about the latter things later! Wow what a great lady with great ideas. She knows what she want and wouldn't allow any Mediocrity theory affect her. In that group 99% of us are students, 70% are already in tertiary institutions and yet we are still going about with that Mediocrity theory, and we complain our schooling system is wacky! We complain that things aren't working the right way. I am not saying before going for that course we shouldn't weigh our chances but that shouldn't be the reason we discriminate schooling or get low grades.

Our minds has been polluted with various Mediocrity theory that they make us think averagely. How would our economy grow when it is run by average minded people. We are all intelligent and brilliant but the Mediocrity theory which crawl into our minds like a snake into a burrow wreck us down, it changed our orientation. We may still have the good grades with that mediocrity mind but we would never know the value of schooling.

It is true that the whole faults isn't with the students and that not everyone would work for someone else or their certificate but that doesn't mean all of us, so why badmouth schooling because you won't work with it certificate.

Face that course if you really want something out of it, understand the course, get the good grade to show yourself approved and then worry about the job later " if you don't enjoy schooling get out of it and face your new interest.

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