Dartey's lens] When everyone else chases paper certificate

The world is increasingly changing and rapidly, the human population is drifting swiftly to catch up with the changing times.
This is clearly evident in the increasing technological products around the world. The big question however is, are these changes negative or positive remains of time?

The fundamental of all this is the love of education, which is in itself a very good tool. Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful tool that one can use to change the world". The world is indeed changing.
The simplest job by the roadside is requesting for one's certificate with emphasis on an impressive CV.
The biggest issue facing us humans, of all races, is that we have totally drifted away from 'home education'.

We have shifted our attention from learning  good attitudes from 'homes' to learning habits from 'houses'.
There's a great gap between the older generation and the 'new' generation. Undoubtedly, there are heritages that needs to be picked up into the new generation and that's 'home education'.

Gone are the days when human attitudes towards fellow human beings were regarded utmost. You dare not bypass a person without greeting, more so when the person is older than you are. You do so at the detriment of a sanction from your own parents.
At social gatherings, you must stand up for the elderly next to sit, no matter how late he or she is.

It's intriguing how a community could rapidly, at the announcement of a town crier, gather to attend to some impending social business; sanitation for example.
Important of all is the component that the family poses as being the court, counseling unit, and teacher. The child has all the requirements it takes to make it in life, the family is ever ready to provide!

What do we see today?
Everyone is chasing paper certificate; diploma, degree and masters certificates, leaving behind the core values with which we are trained from the 'home'.

What is left of those kids that are placed under the care of 'house girls' as their parents religiously chase after paper? These house girls are as innocent themselves as the kid left under their care, who need some moral upgrade in the 'home'.

And as for those kids that are sent to 'upgraded house girls' under the guise of early schooling, the least said about them, the better.
Check them out, their primary role and major target is speaking 'good' English with deficient moral values.
Who deceived us into believing that the best way of living a fulfilling life is by speaking good English?

Goals are best achieved with passion and morals.
It's very pathetic how we run after paper yet lack the moral attitude to pursue a fulfilling life.
What does it profit us, if we can speak all the grammar but cannot solve our basic problems or simply have good human and social relationships?
You go to a shop to buy an item and the shop attendant is busily 'facebooking' or 'whatsApping' and not giving you a listening ear. As if that is not enough, he or she frowns at you with a posture that you are disturbing him or her.

Until that point where we realise that the gutter next to us, the dustbin at our junction, or the bush behind our house, all need to be cleared clean without holding a paper certificate, then our journey is very far from reach.
This piece is not, and will not suggest that education is bad.

Probably the modus operandi of our educational sector needs a serious reform.
Definitely, when the chase of paper certificate becomes the norm, the society dies of its values. Let's value our values!!

By: Mawunyo Richard Dartey