Education without Liberation
This is an exclusive thoughts of someone, Mr Jubril Ayoola who is a learning scholar in Nigeria, concerning the then colonial master's and the ruled. Thus it emphasizes:
One of first few questions I asked myself when I started to rationalize is "Why Was I Born in this Nation", "Why am I not white". I started to relate with my childhood friends and schoolmates at a very tender age only to realize I am not the only one with that mentality.
Later when I was around age 10, when I started attending Luth CMUL staff school I accepted the fact that I am black not because I willing wanted to but because I realized again that I have no choice but to accept that reality. Relating with my friends made me discover how much so many of them kept denying themselves attribution to our nationality or continent as whole.
We're still young but we have this mentality, acceptance or denying, our inert feelings wish we were not of this nation. We feel this way not because we are ungrateful, greedy or selfish but because unconsciously we hate the fact of being inferior to the whites. We hate the way we're subjugated to their accords, being treated and deprived.
ONCE UPON A TIME........................................................BACK TO THE LATE 1880's to early 1900's
British masters visited African with worthy and attractive bounties. They needed slaves to work on their farms and their other workstations. They offered attractive items to the chiefs and monarchs of different African districts in exchange for their captives, prisoners or fugitives. The chiefs and monarchs happily traded to attain the sets of advanced techs and lovely items proposed (likes of bicycles, powder guns, radios.......). This deal kept recycling until the chiefs ran out of prisoners to offer...... So many of them made funny laws to get more criminals, some of them forcefully took innocent people as prisoners to keep up with their deals. The deal began to slow down but more British masters kept showing up. At a point in time the British masters/dealers became so impatient They forcefully took slaves themselves without the medium of the African districts rulers until they became in charge and successfully taking slaves from African to England to work they started using them for their hard labour. After watching them they selected few among them that worked better to put them in control of others. The master continued to observe them until he got the best of them. After doing a good job the master named him "The slave head" to make him motivated and feel he has power. After some time he gave him whip and taught him how to ride horse.
After the master saw the loyalty of the slave head he gave him a separate room and place as office. The master felt the need to expand his wealth and establish a new farm sector. He called the slave head told him he was going to promote him from "Slave head" to the overall manager of his current farm". He told the slave to come to his room so he could show him his secret.
He took the slave to his library, taught him how to read and write. He taught him literacy and numeracy. He taught him how to make accounts. He restricted the slave from reading other things telling him he doesn't need it. The master never taught or exposed the slave to "think and reason". He taught the slave medicine to treat the ills, taught him little mechanics to make repairs but never gave him the secrets to "Innovate, create, fathom, discover and logic". He gave the slave only knowledge and theories needed to manage his farm. He made sure he never revealed the technicality of manifesting the theories to mastermind his own accords, to establish his own farm, to create his own facilities, to tactically strategies his own crew and merchandise.
He psychologically made him belief.
1. The slave has the completion of his Master's knowledge which he presented to him as his secret keys to success.
2. He made the slave believed that he could rival his master in terms of abilities and reasoning.
The Master's objectives.
1. He needed to expand his market.
Some of the slaves made their ways back to African after believing they have the so called "key secrets and knowledge of the west".
The British successfully gave them "EDUCATION WITHOUT LIBRATION". That was the beginning of Africans mediocrity passed psychologically from generations till date.
We have the "The brilliancy far more than the white, we've taken from their theories which was passed to our forefathers. We study, have excelling students, excellent graduates, brilliant professors but couldn't replicates all the theories we've memorized to applications. It's because the main key which is 'reasoning, logic and the technicality of the theories' were never passed to us". They Were never passed but made believed we have everything, but the actual thing we have is the shell.
It Explains why :
1. To get better medical care our rich fellows and leaders need to go abroad.
2. Why we need importation of materials and devices to live.
3. Our raw materials need to be shipped abroad
These whites till date continue to keep check on us through different tactical means. It explains why whenever our nation produces any extra-ordinary young talent lucky to break through mediocrity and find the answer to absolutely creativity get lured by the whites, they give him job abroad and huge sum of money even though they have more than enough competent guys that can produce the same or better results at their arsenal.
Their joy is for us to think we are liberated but we are not, for us to think we have gotten our independence but literally, indirectly dependent on their will. We have mentally gotten ourselves submissive to them, difficult to agree or accept but fact. We need to wake up, discover the missing secrets to complete education and civilization, establish ourselves, get ourselves less dependent on daily basis, encourage our locally made, locally produce, motivate our young talents, enlighten our administrators across the country, strive for the best.
"Only then can we break through humiliation, inferiority complex, mediocrity, dogmatism, hypnotism and submission to foreign will. Only then can we gain back our confidence, our dreams, our wills, liberation and independence".
'Jubril. A. Ayoola'
One of first few questions I asked myself when I started to rationalize is "Why Was I Born in this Nation", "Why am I not white". I started to relate with my childhood friends and schoolmates at a very tender age only to realize I am not the only one with that mentality.
Later when I was around age 10, when I started attending Luth CMUL staff school I accepted the fact that I am black not because I willing wanted to but because I realized again that I have no choice but to accept that reality. Relating with my friends made me discover how much so many of them kept denying themselves attribution to our nationality or continent as whole.
We're still young but we have this mentality, acceptance or denying, our inert feelings wish we were not of this nation. We feel this way not because we are ungrateful, greedy or selfish but because unconsciously we hate the fact of being inferior to the whites. We hate the way we're subjugated to their accords, being treated and deprived.
ONCE UPON A TIME........................................................BACK TO THE LATE 1880's to early 1900's
British masters visited African with worthy and attractive bounties. They needed slaves to work on their farms and their other workstations. They offered attractive items to the chiefs and monarchs of different African districts in exchange for their captives, prisoners or fugitives. The chiefs and monarchs happily traded to attain the sets of advanced techs and lovely items proposed (likes of bicycles, powder guns, radios.......). This deal kept recycling until the chiefs ran out of prisoners to offer...... So many of them made funny laws to get more criminals, some of them forcefully took innocent people as prisoners to keep up with their deals. The deal began to slow down but more British masters kept showing up. At a point in time the British masters/dealers became so impatient They forcefully took slaves themselves without the medium of the African districts rulers until they became in charge and successfully taking slaves from African to England to work they started using them for their hard labour. After watching them they selected few among them that worked better to put them in control of others. The master continued to observe them until he got the best of them. After doing a good job the master named him "The slave head" to make him motivated and feel he has power. After some time he gave him whip and taught him how to ride horse.
After the master saw the loyalty of the slave head he gave him a separate room and place as office. The master felt the need to expand his wealth and establish a new farm sector. He called the slave head told him he was going to promote him from "Slave head" to the overall manager of his current farm". He told the slave to come to his room so he could show him his secret.
He took the slave to his library, taught him how to read and write. He taught him literacy and numeracy. He taught him how to make accounts. He restricted the slave from reading other things telling him he doesn't need it. The master never taught or exposed the slave to "think and reason". He taught the slave medicine to treat the ills, taught him little mechanics to make repairs but never gave him the secrets to "Innovate, create, fathom, discover and logic". He gave the slave only knowledge and theories needed to manage his farm. He made sure he never revealed the technicality of manifesting the theories to mastermind his own accords, to establish his own farm, to create his own facilities, to tactically strategies his own crew and merchandise.
He psychologically made him belief.
1. The slave has the completion of his Master's knowledge which he presented to him as his secret keys to success.
2. He made the slave believed that he could rival his master in terms of abilities and reasoning.
The Master's objectives.
1. He needed to expand his market.
Some of the slaves made their ways back to African after believing they have the so called "key secrets and knowledge of the west".
The British successfully gave them "EDUCATION WITHOUT LIBRATION". That was the beginning of Africans mediocrity passed psychologically from generations till date.
We have the "The brilliancy far more than the white, we've taken from their theories which was passed to our forefathers. We study, have excelling students, excellent graduates, brilliant professors but couldn't replicates all the theories we've memorized to applications. It's because the main key which is 'reasoning, logic and the technicality of the theories' were never passed to us". They Were never passed but made believed we have everything, but the actual thing we have is the shell.
It Explains why :
1. To get better medical care our rich fellows and leaders need to go abroad.
2. Why we need importation of materials and devices to live.
3. Our raw materials need to be shipped abroad
These whites till date continue to keep check on us through different tactical means. It explains why whenever our nation produces any extra-ordinary young talent lucky to break through mediocrity and find the answer to absolutely creativity get lured by the whites, they give him job abroad and huge sum of money even though they have more than enough competent guys that can produce the same or better results at their arsenal.
Their joy is for us to think we are liberated but we are not, for us to think we have gotten our independence but literally, indirectly dependent on their will. We have mentally gotten ourselves submissive to them, difficult to agree or accept but fact. We need to wake up, discover the missing secrets to complete education and civilization, establish ourselves, get ourselves less dependent on daily basis, encourage our locally made, locally produce, motivate our young talents, enlighten our administrators across the country, strive for the best.
"Only then can we break through humiliation, inferiority complex, mediocrity, dogmatism, hypnotism and submission to foreign will. Only then can we gain back our confidence, our dreams, our wills, liberation and independence".
'Jubril. A. Ayoola'
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