Education is worthless without good ideas – Lawal

Education is worthless without good ideas – Lawal

Youth corps members serving at the University of Ilorin have been told to make their education count by generating ideas for development and job creation.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Prof. Bayo Lawal, stated this during a 

Youth corps members serving at the University of Ilorin have been told to make their education count by generating ideas for development and job creation.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Prof. Bayo Lawal, stated this during

a workshop organised by the University of Ilorin Corpers' Association for its outgoing members.

Prof. Lawal told the youth corps members that education becomes meaningless when graduates cannot come up with good ideas, stressing that there is a difference between being schooled and being educated.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor warned the corps members against what he called “mis-education”, explaining that it is mis-education that makes people think that they cannot succeed until they go abroad.

important elements in education.

Advising the youth corps members to be creative

and not to follow the crowd, Prof. Lawal said, “You need skills, technique of doing things, craft and knowledge of small technology.”

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor noted that primary aim of education was not to give them jobs but to help them identify their potential and build on it.

Prof. Lawal told the youth corpers that the secret of being employable is to be remarkable and outstanding in whatever they set out to do and called on them to strive to be employers of labour.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor submitted that to be a great leader, they must have mastery, be role models and be mentors, pointing out that they were lucky to have served in the University of Ilorin, which he described as “the flagship of higher education in Nigeria.”