Thoughts on Nigerian Education. When we were in Primary School, we were taught that the 'O' in "BODMAS" represented "of". We were also taught not to say "sorry" to someone who had just lost a loved one - "hard luck" was a more appropriate term - the reason being you shouldn't say sorry if you didn't kill deceased. Over time however, I have learned that the 'O' in Bodmas means "orders" and it's okay to say sorry to the bereaved. Unfortunately, about a decade and a half after I left Primary school, pupils are still being taught to use "hard luck" rather uneccesarily, and that the 'O' in BODMAS means 'of'. The teachers in today's primary school (many of them who were in primary school same time as I) are making the same mistakes their own teachers made. And this is not limited to Mathematics and English language education. In this day and age, one will still find teachers that a...
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