I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. Some people will say that a school is a school as long as the scheme of work is the same. If you can learn the same thing in school A, why go to school B that is more expensive and even very far away from your house? Why not just go to the one that costs you less and is closer to your house since both schools would literally teach the exact same thing? I also had that mindset, but over time I got to understand that the school you go to can help build you as an individual, and building you is not all about character but financially and in so many other ways.
The school you go to determines the type of people you will meet; you cannot go to a school because it is cheap and closer to your house and then expect to meet people with the influence to turn your life around. Life does not end in school because there is life after school. You cannot attend a federal university and expect to come across a governor's child, a senator's child, an influential person's child, or any politician's child; even if you are lucky enough to come across one, then it is probably for a political agenda. There are close to a thousand or more federal universities in Nigeria, and not up to 5 have the children of dignitaries attending them.
I have a cousin that attended Nile University. When she was about to be enrolled there, the entire extended family kicked against it and advised the father to send her to a federal university and cut costs, but the father refused, and at some point when the financial burden of sending her there became too heavy for him to bear, everyone started blaming him and saying he should have listened to them. No one knew his reason for doing what he did, but somehow he managed to see her through the university. She served, and a few months later she got a very good-paying job without even stressing so much.
Who got the job for her? A senator's daughter she met in school told her dad, her dad told a friend, and then strings were pulled, and she was given a job she did not even apply for. The school you go to determines the type of people you meet, what you learn from them, how they impact your life, and how things kind of turn out after school. In federal universities we have more children from average families; no doubt there are children from average families with updates that can impact you positively, but you only come across those kinds of kids once in 2 years, and they might not even want to share.
This same cousin of mine is now abroad; the same friend from school pulled strings, and she was sponsored to one of the company branches abroad. From day one I knew that the school you attend matters a lot, but with my cousin's experience and story I just confirmed it.
If I could turn back the hands of time, would I change the school I attended?
I think with all I have said, you already know my stance; I am definitely going to change the school I attend. I might not change my secondary and primary school, but I am definitely changing my university or college because I know there is more to life than just the four corners of school.
