(2) TEACHERS
Any nation that is serious about becoming great must pay attention to the quality of the education that the citizens are exposed to. One of the reasons why God is committed to this kind of programme is to help you. At this stage of your life, you are a student and in any nation you find out that students are the most populous part of the society. Any nation that does not respect its vast population is not serious about going forward. Don’t mind what politicians talk about the nation, how we want to have a nation like America, how another Obama is going to come in Nigeria and things like that. If the budget doesn’t give a sizable portion to education, that nation is simply playing games with words. Barrack Obama may be a black man, but he’s not a black man in his mind. I’m sure he didn’t go to the kind of school you are going now. Some of the laboratories you are using in your school now are not well equipped; some of the teachers teaching in your schools need to go back to school. Nowadays, I get alarmed about the kind of things I hear; when a student gets bothered and says “I read, I don’t do too well, but all my mates are getting fantastic marks and I asked them how they are doing and they tell me they are paying”. When teachers are collecting money to give students high marks, they are not going to produce any Barrack Obama from that kind of environment. And so, students must begin to take their salvation with their own hands by hearing something that is going to propel them to educate themselves correctly. A nation cannot be better than the mind that the citizens are bringing to bear on solving the problems that confront them. There is a period in your life that it is easy to learn certain things and you are in that period now. You can push yourself wide, right, left, centre, forward and upward in educating yourself now. One of the attacks of the devil about correct education is laziness in your mind. If there is one thing the devil is attacking this country with, it is to make young people lazy thinkers- lazy in their minds. I don’t think anyone of you here is exerting yourself enough. I believe every one of you here should be registered in a university or higher institution for a course and also register for another course outside somewhere. There is a deception that you are reading too much, there is nothing like that, it is not possible to read too much. Did you listen to Barrack Obama’s speech? Something as fantastic as that happened and most students didn’t watch it. Where were you? That’s part of the problem. You can complain of power supply, that’s interesting, isn’t it? Even if you didn’t watch it, you could have gotten it from the newspaper and read it. Now, that man spoke for 45minutes without looking at the note. That is not a feeble mind. And so the decision to become successful can never be a corporate decision, it has always been and will forever be an individual decision. It cannot be a handed down decision, nobody can take that decision on your behalf when you are not there. It is like the common saying that “you can’t shave somebody’s head behind his back”. Let me tell you this, I don’t know what decision you think you have made but life already knows by some of the choices you have been making before you came here. Whatever decisions you have made, whether for success or for failure, whether for championship lifestyle or average lifestyle, you already have made some decisions. And the law of decision is that decision has consequences. The devil is not afraid of your desires, he’s afraid of your decisions and you have to understand that and until you come to the place of decision, nothing changes in your life. Two things bring changes in your life; accidents and decisions. If you are going to be successful and weighty in life, you cannot allow the bulk of the changes that are taking place in your life to be the result of accidents. Accidents by way of somebody’ else decision, mistakes or positive that just happen to collide with your life and then you are forced to change and all that. But if you are going to make it in life and be weighty in life, your own decision must be provoking the positive changes that you are taking, so by the time you are through with this write up, you must make certain decisions. What you are going to do, what you are not going to do and all that. One man decided when he went to university in America that he wanted to be a first class candidate and decided that he would not befriend anyone that has not decided to be a first class student right before he got admitted into the university. So when he got admitted, he asks “what is your goal?” and anybody that says he just comes around and all that can’t be his friend. He selects friends that have decided to be first class students, so they formed a club and all of them became a first class graduates. That was a result of a decision, all the other people that didn’t make a decision were as brilliant as them but their decisions were not added to their brilliance. It takes more than a dream to win in life and you must add decisions to your dreams. It takes more than desires and passions, so you must have some decisions and as you come here today, decisions must be a part of your life.
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