.

Yea practical knowledge is essential but honestly the best option is to combine theory with practicals in the form of technical schools or OND awarding institutes.
These guys apart from the fact that they take so long to learn little, they don't know quite well the basic science of the various car systems because there is no theoretical background

So for instance, when electric cars get to Nigeria, i can only imagine how handicapped they will be.
It's the same reason why some only specialize on particular brands of cars and some others can't efficiently troubleshoot complex problems- you will change everything changeable.

fuckerstard:


For real? Free keh

yes it is free.

The Future Kazeems, see them ravaging that Accord.

Kingwizzy16:
Them plenty for Lagos here



Better than those using plate to Waka up and down looking for who go dash them food

exactly!

evansjeff:


it's just for a token of 500h.

first bank account number 3051061930.

I too bought it, I don't just want to hike the price. be rest assured it's genuine.

cant u just help ur fellow Nigerian? Wetin 5h go do for u? Gv am fr pdf, the size is even less than 1mb. Must everything be business?

lonelydora:
The only bad thing i see here is the lack of schooling.

See, the way Nigerian is going, all my kids will in addition to going to school have an artisan knowledge either in Music, Instrumentalist, barbing/hair dressing, Mechanic, Upholstery/carpentry, etc.

I made this decision years ago,can't help but anticipate my first child's coming..

What kind of write up is this... Is learning to fix cars not a form of education

They made the right choice,having the skills and venturing into edu to enhance it will be the best.
Skilled workers is declining.

b0rn2fuck:
nothing wrong but I still think they shouldn't be denied education as well, I knew someone who always return to mechanic shop after school,. at least they will be able to post on nairaland to market themselves on like us who is on nairaland for nothing and we still get ban for fighting

,sense no go kill you

Wow pray you achieve your dreams and aspirations in life

lonelydora:
The only bad thing i see here is the lack of schooling.

See, the way Nigerian is going, all my kids will in addition to going to school have an artisan knowledge either in Music, Instrumentalist, barbing/hair dressing, Mechanic, Upholstery/carpentry, etc.

This is a decision I have taken also, my mum invested so much in my education(God bless her soul for this huge investment). We didn't know marrying same with a skill was Germaine. But now I know(I am already leraning plumbing on PT basis).
My kids after their SSCE will need three years off to learn a craft if we are still in this country.
Book alone no dey too help

BrokenCock:
cant u just help ur fellow Nigerian? Wetin 5h go do for u? Gv am fr pdf, the size is even less than 1mb. Must everything be business?

you know because I got it for free na... pay for what you value.

AutosageNaija:
Ibrahim took the only cloth he had and left the house that morning, without breakfast and without a shower. He left with nothing.

He didn’t think of where he was going because he already knew that. On his way, he passed many children going to school, he didn’t envy them, and he didn’t even think about them, he just went ahead towards the mechanic village at Oyingbo.

The mechanic village had been his home for as long as he could remember. His father was a mechanic. Ibrahim grew up in the mechanic village. He was always there with his father.

And now, Ibrahim is 14 years old, and the only life he has ever known is the life of a mechanic.

Ibrahim is not alone; there is Shina who is 9 years old. There is Kunle who is 10. There is Wilfred who is 12. There is Emeka, 15, and there is Wale, 12. And they all have one thing in common. They are all children-mechanic.

Childhood is a very exciting age. It is an age when you have no fear and adventure has no risk. It is the formative age. You can do anything and get away with it after all you are just a child. It’s fun. But what if you spend your childhood as a mechanic? Would it be that fun?

A visit to any mechanic workshop in Lagos will bring you face to face with these children, barely 15 years old running around the workshop and answering to the older mechanics who send them to bring this or that tool. And you cannot help but wonder where their parents are, why are they not in school, what can they even do in the car, and why mechanic for that matter?

Some of the children who spoke to Autosage Nigeria said they go to school, meanwhile, they cannot express themselves in English. They can only speak Yoruba fluently, and a little bit of Pidgin English.

When I spoke to Ibrahim, he said; “I go school. Sometimes, in the week, three times. I am in SS2 class.” He added that he would like to be a mechanic when he grows up and that he likes the job.

I cannot pretend to shut my eyes totally from the realities of the Nigerian society. There is poverty in Nigeria and we know it. There is hunger in this land that people live below one dollar per day in Nigeria. Even here in Lagos, people are suffering so much they have no food to eat for days. This is true.

So, for those people, education is not a priority neither is anything above daily survival. And for their children, childhood is not fun. They could end up as children mechanics.

UNICEF puts the number of out of school children in Nigeria to 10.5 million. That was in 2014 and four years later, the president Buhari led administration says they have reduced the number to 8.7 million children. Whether it is true or not, we know that out of school children are everywhere in Nigeria. And some of them have ended up as children mechanics.

However, let us turn this argument to a more positive side. How can Ibrahim and his co-child mechanics not end up as depraved members of the society?

The answer is simple.

“There is the need for organised and balanced skills acquisition that includes the right amount of education at the right time. Children under the age of 18 training to be auto technicians is not wrong, but it becomes evil if they sacrifice education for this skill.

“At the end of the day, they would not be able to communicate properly and therefore would not fit into the future scheme,” said Kayode, a car owner, who came to fix his car at the mechanic workshop.

He added: “The point is that nothing can replace child education, not even technical skills like an auto technician. The cars of tomorrow are too smart and will continue to be too smart for anyone who is not educated let alone for someone who is not literate.

“So that these children might end up much confused and unable to fix cars when today’s cars have vanished. Even today, most roadside mechanics cannot attempt to fix some complex issues in today’s cars. So is it not the same limited knowledge they are teaching these children.”

Also Read: [url]Revealed: 4 Reasons Why Your Car Consumes A Lot Of Fuel[https://autosage.ng/revealed-reasons-car-consumes-fuel/]

Some people argue that in some other developed countries such as China, children are already tech-savvy by 15 years of age.

But this comparison could be very inappropriate. The reasons are that in a country like Nigeria, things are completely different and are still at a very basic level.

Let’s take language for instance. The official language in those countries always happens to be their main language of communication. So these children go to school to acquire skills and other knowledge. And these things are done in school and not outside of school.

Again, Communication is no longer their problem. Language is no longer a barrier.

But here in Nigeria, if Ibrahim cannot speak English, his association will be very limited. And no matter what he knows his world will be very limited.

And Ibrahim would not be able to operate a computer, and the cars of now are built into a computer. Majority of the cases in cars today cannot be attempted without proper diagnoses with a computer. This goes to buttress a point that nothing can replace a child’s education.

To conclude, to reduce the rapid unemployment rate in the country, skills acquisition is the key. Every human being in this country should know how to solve one problem. But we cannot rob Peter to pay Paul.

When you deny a child the right to acquire a basic education, primary and secondary, you have denied him the right to live in this society peacefully and to contribute meaningfully to it. This is a digital age, and quality basic education is the best tool a child can acquire while growing up as he acquires any other skills.


Source:[https://autosage.ng/meet-lagos-kid-mechanics-sacrificing-education/]

Are suppose to petty or rejoice with them,have u see where mechanic dey spend money in d club or where they give their cumcubine money n gifts

hrykanu231:


This is a decision I have taken also, my mum invested so much in my education(God bless her soul for this huge investment). We didn't know marrying same with a skill was Germaine. But now I know(I am already leraning plumbing on PT basis).
My kids after their SSCE will need three years off to learn a craft if we are still in this country.
Book alone no dey too help

I agree with you but they don't need three years off to learn a craft after SSCE.

I think it is better they start learning as soon as they write their JSSCE and can continue everyday after school from SS1-SS3. That is what my elder sister does with her three children, hair dressing saloon and computer-1st daughter already in the university; Mechanic, computer and electrical work- her son that wants to study engineering and finally, computer and pharmacy apprentice-2nd daughter that wants to be a doctor.

I have a neighbour whose son started right from. JSS 1. He goes to the pharmacy to get trained everyday after school and on Saturdays, he wants to be a doctor in the future. This is the way my dad trained his children and that's the way it should be, both formal and informal education. This will better equip the children in the future and they will be completely empowered.

AutosageNaija:
Ibrahim took the only cloth he had and left the house that morning, without breakfast and without a shower. He left with nothing.

He didn’t think of where he was going because he already knew that. On his way, he passed many children going to school, he didn’t envy them, and he didn’t even think about them, he just went ahead towards the mechanic village at Oyingbo.

The mechanic village had been his home for as long as he could remember. His father was a mechanic. Ibrahim grew up in the mechanic village. He was always there with his father.

And now, Ibrahim is 14 years old, and the only life he has ever known is the life of a mechanic.

Ibrahim is not alone; there is Shina who is 9 years old. There is Kunle who is 10. There is Wilfred who is 12. There is Emeka, 15, and there is Wale, 12. And they all have one thing in common. They are all children-mechanic.

Childhood is a very exciting age. It is an age when you have no fear and adventure has no risk. It is the formative age. You can do anything and get away with it after all you are just a child. It’s fun. But what if you spend your childhood as a mechanic? Would it be that fun?

A visit to any mechanic workshop in Lagos will bring you face to face with these children, barely 15 years old running around the workshop and answering to the older mechanics who send them to bring this or that tool. And you cannot help but wonder where their parents are, why are they not in school, what can they even do in the car, and why mechanic for that matter?

Some of the children who spoke to Autosage Nigeria said they go to school, meanwhile, they cannot express themselves in English. They can only speak Yoruba fluently, and a little bit of Pidgin English.

When I spoke to Ibrahim, he said; “I go school. Sometimes, in the week, three times. I am in SS2 class.” He added that he would like to be a mechanic when he grows up and that he likes the job.

I cannot pretend to shut my eyes totally from the realities of the Nigerian society. There is poverty in Nigeria and we know it. There is hunger in this land that people live below one dollar per day in Nigeria. Even here in Lagos, people are suffering so much they have no food to eat for days. This is true.

So, for those people, education is not a priority neither is anything above daily survival. And for their children, childhood is not fun. They could end up as children mechanics.

UNICEF puts the number of out of school children in Nigeria to 10.5 million. That was in 2014 and four years later, the president Buhari led administration says they have reduced the number to 8.7 million children. Whether it is true or not, we know that out of school children are everywhere in Nigeria. And some of them have ended up as children mechanics.

However, let us turn this argument to a more positive side. How can Ibrahim and his co-child mechanics not end up as depraved members of the society?

The answer is simple.

“There is the need for organised and balanced skills acquisition that includes the right amount of education at the right time. Children under the age of 18 training to be auto technicians is not wrong, but it becomes evil if they sacrifice education for this skill.

“At the end of the day, they would not be able to communicate properly and therefore would not fit into the future scheme,” said Kayode, a car owner, who came to fix his car at the mechanic workshop.

He added: “The point is that nothing can replace child education, not even technical skills like an auto technician. The cars of tomorrow are too smart and will continue to be too smart for anyone who is not educated let alone for someone who is not literate.

“So that these children might end up much confused and unable to fix cars when today’s cars have vanished. Even today, most roadside mechanics cannot attempt to fix some complex issues in today’s cars. So is it not the same limited knowledge they are teaching these children.”

Also Read: [url]Revealed: 4 Reasons Why Your Car Consumes A Lot Of Fuel[https://autosage.ng/revealed-reasons-car-consumes-fuel/]

Some people argue that in some other developed countries such as China, children are already tech-savvy by 15 years of age.

But this comparison could be very inappropriate. The reasons are that in a country like Nigeria, things are completely different and are still at a very basic level.

Let’s take language for instance. The official language in those countries always happens to be their main language of communication. So these children go to school to acquire skills and other knowledge. And these things are done in school and not outside of school.

Again, Communication is no longer their problem. Language is no longer a barrier.

But here in Nigeria, if Ibrahim cannot speak English, his association will be very limited. And no matter what he knows his world will be very limited.

And Ibrahim would not be able to operate a computer, and the cars of now are built into a computer. Majority of the cases in cars today cannot be attempted without proper diagnoses with a computer. This goes to buttress a point that nothing can replace a child’s education.

To conclude, to reduce the rapid unemployment rate in the country, skills acquisition is the key. Every human being in this country should know how to solve one problem. But we cannot rob Peter to pay Paul.

When you deny a child the right to acquire a basic education, primary and secondary, you have denied him the right to live in this society peacefully and to contribute meaningfully to it. This is a digital age, and quality basic education is the best tool a child can acquire while growing up as he acquires any other skills.


Source:[https://autosage.ng/meet-lagos-kid-mechanics-sacrificing-education/]

is learning how to fix cars not education?

lonelydora:
The only bad thing i see here is the lack of schooling.

See, the way Nigerian is going, all my kids will in addition to going to school have an artisan knowledge either in Music, Instrumentalist, barbing/hair dressing, Mechanic, Upholstery/carpentry, etc.

learning how 2b a mechanic is also schooling