Probably you have being wondering what Mediocrity is all about, here is a simple definition according to Oxford Dictionary:
Mediocrity could be defined as state of being average in quality, thinking averagely and lacking both good inspiration and flair.
Mediocrity affect people in different ways and in various situations. It could be in your career, education etc.
In Nigeria, unknowingly and unfortunately Mediocrity has find it way into our minds, into students mind. Learning has lost it taste because schooling now look like its a tradition or a formality.
Indeed how? It is caused most time by what our minds has been filled with. What your mind feed on would determine your output in life. We have been wired to believe that after schooling we won't get jobs so we just behave like robots in school.
Few months back, I was opportune to have a discussion in an online forum about the unemployment situation in Nigeria. Then lots of interesting points were raised on how people with good grades are on the street looking for jobs after struggling in school. The points weren't bad but we made it sounds like having good grades is bad since you won't get a job with it. In other words, it simply means "To hell with good grades, you can't even get a job without knowing influential people"
If we look into it from a certain angle these points are valid, but a particular person from the forum named Chioma countered the theory that day. Yes, there is little or no job in Nigeria and good grades falling out but yet in this raving storm some decent people are still getting jobs.
She said something that day that inspires me;
"Get the good grades first and then worry about the job! Because some are not employed doesn't mean you can't be employed too"
That sentence got me amazed tho. The sentence simply means I should face the reason I'm in school and then worry about the latter things later! Wow what a great lady with great ideas. She knows what she want and wouldn't allow any Mediocrity theory affect her. In that group 99% of us are students, 70% are already in tertiary institutions and yet we are still going about with that Mediocrity theory, and we complain our schooling system is wacky! We complain that things aren't working the right way. I am not saying before going for that course we shouldn't weigh our chances but that shouldn't be the reason we discriminate schooling or get low grades.
Our minds has been polluted with various Mediocrity theory that they make us think averagely. How would our economy grow when it is run by average minded people. We are all intelligent and brilliant but the Mediocrity theory which crawl into our minds like a snake into a burrow wreck us down, it changed our orientation. We may still have the good grades with that mediocrity mind but we would never know the value of schooling.
It is true that the whole faults isn't with the students and that not everyone would work for someone else or their certificate but that doesn't mean all of us, so why badmouth schooling because you won't work with it certificate.
In conclusion, Face that course if you really want something out of it, understand the course, get the good grade to show yourself approved and then worry about the job later " if you don't enjoy schooling get out of it and face your new interest.
Thank you for taking your time to read this my long write-up, I never ever aimed to waste your precious time on this but I just want you to gain from it.
