Why We Need To Fight Inferiority Complex Among Some NCE Students In Nigeria

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence ( Robert Frost). Schooling in Nigeria is arguably no longer a guarantee for success. The nation has gone beyond celebrating or hailing a man for becoming a graduate
with a B.A in Art or science, that was in the past and remember the past has no power over the present moment. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop that is if you think you are moving slowly in life because you are an NCE student. The best thing for being sad is beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in age, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins and your friends sermon, you may see the world about you devastated because the the dullest boy in your class at secondary school is in Degree one, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds, folks in your community, your secondary school teachers, your parents and your love. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world quivers, what quivers it and why it is quivering. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn and never stop learning.

     There is no reason for you to try to become like people who see themselves as nothing and inferior in the society because they offer more than eight (8) courses in a semester and use a different lanyard and I.D card and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they who use another lanyard and offer eight courses in a semester must accept you because they can't feel what you are feeling neither can they see what you claim you are saying.
The terrible thing, NCE buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love and with the belief that the world is for both losers and winners, and winning is a thing of the mind and not a paper thing (certificate). For these innocent people are not really affected with your own inferiority state. Mind you, schooling is only a path from  conceited ignorance to miserable uncertainty.  They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that NCE students are inferior to Degree students. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. If you want to get  balance, go to a school, If you want an education, update your mind and mentality. And remember, you are not a teacher, but an awakener. Don't because of inferiority complex limit the circus of your life to a spot, the world has gone beyond papers.Save yourself from mental slavery cos' if you don't, some of your friends will take advantage of it.

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