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EDSCHOOLATION By: Ogundele AbdQayyum Afolabi




A University degree, one  much overrated.
A path to success exaggerated.
Not really like usually anticipated.
By when i would have graduated.
And my grades celebrated.
But financially have i been liberated.
Cos all that theory and the reality before me now is quite unrelated.
I do hope you find sense in these words i have communicated.
Do not get me wrong i love that we get educated
But what i despise is how the school system's been reconfigurated.
So i call out to all holders of stake to look into this ailing system we have created.
For it needs a rebirth and we rehabilitated, before our condition becomes exacerbated.
Then we can be schooled and be assured that we're getting educated.


  • © Ogundele AbdQayyum Afolabi (Mystique).

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  1. Anonymous1 October 2017 at 16:42

    Nice piece sir, this is a true scenario of our education system

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