A Professor in the department of Foreign languages at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof Olalere Oladitan, has admonished those in charge of education quality control in the country to take after the formulae adopted by the Chinese.
The academia, who describe the Chinese education policy as strictly indigenous, said if the country was overhaul its education sector, there was need to adopt mothers’ tongues as a medium of teaching.
He stated this in an interview with our correspondent at the 10th anniversary and launching of his poems collections tagged, ‘Poem of the Week’ on OAUnet.
He said the Chinese, who shut their doors on all foreign elements was now the world’s most powerful country in the areas of technology, academics, medicine and surgery.
“The Chinese people will teach their people with Chinese. And in what seems not obtainable in our own clime, they produce everything they use, ranging from their phones, their houses, which are not awarded to expatriates have been adjudged the best in the world. They one of the best medical services in the world.
“No Englishman ever taught them in school talk less employing the English language or other languages as a medium of teaching. The fact that we don’t cherish our language and culture will continue to haunt us. It’s a frustrating experience what we are passing through in this country, ” he enthused.
Prof Oladitan also decried the rate at which literature as a subject was fizzling out in the academic arc should be revitalised in school curricula as a way of bringing an end to the abysmal showing of Nigerian students.
He said, “during our own days, we have English Language, Literature in English and Mathematics as the compulsory subjects, if you don’t get at least, credit in those three subjects you are going nowhere, but reverse seem the case now as our students don’t even care about literature and history any longer. This is alarming and if not for compulsion of English Language, many of them would have even neglect it as well.”
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