Is education the best criteria for success in life? BattaBox presenter Odunayo finds out on the streets of Lagos.
Formal education – from nursery to higher education – is considered a human right and necessity for a country and its people to succeed. A popular quote is that education is the best legacy. Malcolm X once said: “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
However, what is success?
“We are in a global world now – and without education you are nothing,” says one Lagos businessman. “Whatever you want to achieve – without education, you cannot achieve anything.”
“I don’t think so, because not everyone who is successful in life has been educated,” explains one young Nigerian man. “We have some people who are illiterate and they are doing very well.”
“You’ve got to learn at least the basic things like reading and writing and that will entail where you are going,” says one Nigerian woman. “Just because someone is uneducated and successful, does not mean that education is not important.”
Do you think education is the key to success? Gist us in the comments below.
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Education in a skill or trade that is in demand is key. Drive and determination are keys
Success is if you offer something that many people appreciate (and they pay you for it). It is the same mechanism of thumbs up (“likes”) to the YouTube videos. You can offer many different things: your goods, your skill, your knowledge, your culture, your body, your beauty, your friendship, etc. So, not necessarily you must be educated in order to be able to offer something that people appreciate and pay for it… In Italy there is a very rich Businessman who owns a sucessfull Food Company. He is very rich and famous although he stopped attending School at the age of 11.
I really think both education and skills are equally important in this day and age. However what is extremely more critical is your promise as human beings initially. This life a journey that must end sooner or later. As long as you are a human, you have made the promise to worship your supreme deity. Now let’s ask ourselves how many parents initiate or even instill this aspects of life in their children. Don’t get me wrong at all because at end of each of us journeys we have two angels asking us questions. They are not after our wealth or how many children we have. However it is our initial promises they would ask us. Well, no one wants to fail. It is my hope to start instilling this concrete aspects of life in our children. We say life is about fulfilling our purposes. Right? Number one is the priority worship your creator and do good to your both parents and all else. At the end of my own journey, I wanted to look back and be able to say I left the better than I found it. Meaning I fulfilled my purposes in life and I left a legacy. As always may peace be to each and every one of us including animals and plants kingdoms alike! Life is truly a marvel indeed!
Former education will make you a living self education will make you a fortune . You need former education(college) if you would like to work for someone else. You need self education to run your own business.
Education is very important but not the key to success in one life.
If only Nigerians can realize that education does not matter, we will have more billionaires in our country
Education is very useful but not the key of success. Wisdom is the key of success. With wisdom you can achieve your goals. Education without wisdom is nothing. Wisdom is very important
SINCERELY EDUCATION IS THE KEY!!!U hear people saying “but bla bla made it, and he didn’t graduate”Well maybe that’s true BUT Without EDUCATION one can not hold onto a business,maybe u made it without an . EDUCATION but I’m certain u will not KEEP IT whilst uneducated.PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THE FACT THAT EDUCATION IS PARAMOUNT .
Who education EPP, oboi innson is illitarete, but he is a billionaire, even UBA bank is owning him billions of naira, name them, almost Nigeria billionaires are all illitaretes, even the politicians are all illitaretes, they use money to buy their certificate.
I don’t know why us black peoples never talk about investment to me I believe investing will lead to success however I do believe some level of education is essential but black peoples need to invest you can go to school get a good job what you do with the money is what matters