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New Generation Idea Community
The new generation idea community is about reforming the education sector from the appalling state it is currently to a high efficient quality-driven system. The new generation idea community was born out of necessity. Necessity as said is the mother of all invention. When there's a need for a particular problem to be solved, then an idea is often born to solve it.
It's a confirmation to the belief that idea creators often see problems as opportunities to create solutions. In the case of the new generation idea community, its main aim is to solve a perplexing problem in the education sector. The vision behind the idea of the New Generation Idea Community (NGIC) was born out of necessity. It's my vision for all the Nigerian students to be adequately educated qualitatively. It has become imperative for Nigerian students to be well educated in well-structured academic institutions and in a well-organized school system.
High-quality education system produces very creative individuals. Students from systems that their education is properly effective produces graduates that are capable of proffering solutions to problems.
The inability for Nigerians to create a solution to perplexing issues facing them is clearly evident that our school system is lagging behind in producing skillful individuals who have bright ideas to create solutions. Other nations that have well-structured school system produce individuals whose ideas are a powerful force that creates solutions to problems.
Hunger, unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness, environmental degradation, civil unrest, terrorism are among some of the problems bright minds proffer solutions to. Observations have been recorded that the implementation of innovative ideas in the education system can dramatically change a nation in a minimal amount of time.
Japan's innovative idea of restructuring its education system led to its speedy economic rebound after the nation was severely devastated in the Second World War. Its economic rebound was like a miracle as the effects were profoundly obvious just half a decade after it school system was restructured.
The same situation played out in Germany, a few decades after the terrible World War II, the nation became an economic powerhouse. Due to the intensive restructuring of its education sector, the nation presently has little or nothing that shows backwardness, or that it was once rummaged after it lost the war to Allies powers in the late 1940s.
Nigeria in the other hand had a much better system of education during the colonial times, and it was a progressive nation in the 40s and 50s. Its economy was solid with its currency value equivalent as British pounds.
Our two universities, the University of Ibadan, and the University of Nsukka were world respected academic institutions where promising idea creators were produced.
However, few years after the independence saw gross malfunctioning in the education sector and then, the decadence spiraled into the political sector and then, the community fell in degeneration. Today, the consequences of the malfunctioned system are apparent and disturbing.
Graduates are now noted to be ill-equipped to generate and implement problem-solving ideas. Students are poorly educated from preschool level up to the universities. There now exist the generation of half-baked literate populace making up the majority of Nigerians. The populace is pitifully ill-equipped to solve their problems and of course, the nation is the current poverty capital of the world despite sitting in an enormous wealth of mineral resources.
What can be done to save the once jewel of Africa from the realities it fond itself? One simple and straight forward answer is the miracle of a high-quality education system. NGIC is an invention created to compete with the existing school system, but unlike the current school system, it will provide top-notch education quality to Nigerian students. A kind of education quality that is found in advanced communities and this opportunity would be extended to all children irrespective of their financial background. Its aim is to raise the new generation of adequately taught Nigerians who are intellectually equipped to formulate creative ideas in par with global best practices in solving perplexing national and world problems.
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