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PII 178: Are You Confident That Your Child Can Stand Up to Peer Pressure? (Lessons from BBC’s #SexForGrades Video Documentary About University Lecturers)

“I’m assuming you’re a(n uncompromising) person like me. So if you’re not, please JUMP OFF THE SHIP because I’m not interested in massaging any egos. So when they meet your child who has been brought up to be like you, then what will happen is that they will be threatened. So what are you going to give your child to ensure that s/he can protect him/herself from them (i.e. others who pressure him/her to do wrong)?” – Tayo K. Solagbade

Above: Verbatim Text Transcript Excerpt from the Audio Podcast

This week I share experience based insights and also suggest practical strategies you can adopt to EMPOWER your child to successfully resist ANY forms of abuse that others may try to inflict on him/her regardless of whether s/he has access to you or not.

Considering how widespread this problem has become over the years, in school, religious organizations and the workplace, it is self-evident that we need to prepare our kids to protect themselves, because we will not always be with them when they face those inevitable challenges.

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 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 178: Are You Confident That Your Child Can Stand Up to Peer Pressure? (Lessons from BBC’s #SexForGrades Video Documentary About University Lecturers)

This week I share experience based insights and also suggest practical strategies you can adopt to EMPOWER your child to successfully resist ANY forms of abuse that others may try to inflict on him/her regardless of whether s/he has access to you or not.

Considering how widespread this problem has become over the years, in school, religious organizations and the workplace, it is self-evident that we need to prepare our kids to protect themselves, because we will not always be with them when they face those inevitable challenges.

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“I’m assuming you’re a(n uncompromising) person like me. So if you’re not, please JUMP OFF THE SHIP because I’m not interested in massaging any egos. So when they meet your child who has been brought up to be like you, then what will happen is that they will be threatened. So what are you going to give your child to ensure that s/he can protect him/herself from them (i.e. others who pressure him/her to do wrong)?” – Tayo K. Solagbade

Click here to download and listen to the full (3o minute) audio podcast – and share freely with others you feel may benefit.

The audio file exists – see screenshot below – in AMR format (3 MB) and 3gpp format (22 MB). Both formats can be played back on mobile devices as well as on PCs with VLC Player installed. It goes without saying therefore that you should download the much smaller sized AMR file to save data and reduce download time. 

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This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter is an audio podcast offered as a Public Service. The topic is self-explanatory, and except you’ve been living under a rock, most likely to be one you are VERY familiar because of the trending #SexForGrades hashtag.

Below: Verbatim text excerpts from the mind-map-like Rapid Speech Preparation Template I used to deliver this topic as a 20 minute talk to an audience over a decade ago. Click here to invite me,

===Starts===

If you always feel a need to be around to stop your child from being influenced to do wrong things, then it is possible YOU NEED TO DO MORE WORK TO COACH your child to function as an independent-minded person.

The reality is:

1. You will NOT always be there to stop him/her from being exposed to negative influences.

2. You cannot hide him/her away at home for ever.

3. Signs That Suggest You Have Not Taught Your Child How To Say NO…

*bad company

*lying, stealing to impress peers

*giving in to abuse of any kind – sexual, emotional, physical etc

Two stories of how being ineffective in handling my relationships made me engage in unbecoming conduct – and eventually got me into trouble.

Story 1: I describe bad activities I engaged in, without getting caught in my first year (as a 10 year old) in secondary school.

Story 2: I describe an instance in which I (along with others from the first story) did get caught, with serious consequences.

You must realize that if your child lacks proficiency in managing his relationships and does not know know who he is/wants to be, it can lead him into trouble

The Role YOU Need To Play As A Parent To Help Your Child

1. What It Takes To Say NO – And Think Independently?

2. Let them make their own mistakes – BUT…be on hand to help them LEARN from each one.

3. Here Are Ten(10) Practical Steps You Can Take

4. How Will You Know When Your Child Has Found Her Purpose?

Encourage a strong knowledge and sense of self. As a nine year old, Bill Gates reportedly knew himself well enough to pronounce to a family friend that “I can do anything I set my mind to”.

Mistake making is itself an essential requirement for a person’s balanced development.

A society only truly succeeds when its new members(children) learn what it takes to survive and flourish in it like the adults that arrive ahead of them.

With proper coaching by adults who have the right mix of knowledge, skills and experience, children can be prepared well ahead for most of the decisions they have to take and/or challenges they will encounter in life.

The result would be a dramatic increase in their capability for achieving success in life.

*Analogy: A lion cub that grows up in a pride of Lions roaming the African Savannah, is unlikely to go hungry from the lack of hunting prowess the way its orphaned cousin raised by humans could.

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PII 173: Astonishing Proof That You Never Need to Retire (True Story: How “Retirement Age” Was Invented) – FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

If you LOVE what you do with passion, and cannot imagine a life in which you would NOT be doing it, then THIS will interest you.

This FREE PDF Report was first published in 2003. Then I revised  it in 2006. And today, over a dozen years later, I’m republishing it with additional revisions made – including the profile of a 95 year old professional who has still NOT “retired” and even published a new book that’s earning him income i.e he continues to command INCOME and RECOGNITION for what he does. If he can do that, then so can you. And that is why I offer you FREE download access to this report. I hope you find it useful!

Here’s an excerpt from Page 2….

Generally, there is a rule that at a specified age (typically between 60 and 65), employees in an organisation are expected to retire. No one really talks about WHY they have to retire, but it appears to be generally assumed(or expected) that at that age, most people will no longer be able to meet the requirements for doing their jobs satisfactorily.(There is also the other matter, of creating room for “young/fresh blood” to enter.)

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PII 173: Astonishing Proof That You Never Need to Retire (True Story: How “Retirement Age” Was Invented) – FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

If you LOVE what you do with passion, and cannot imagine a life in which you would NOT be doing it, then THIS will interest you.

This FREE PDF Report was first published in 2003. Then I revised  it in 2006. And today, over a dozen years later, I’m republishing it with additional revisions made – including the profile of a 95 year old professional who has still NOT “retired” and even published a new book that’s earning him income i.e he continues to command INCOME and RECOGNITION for what he does. If he can do that, then so can you. And that is why I offer you FREE download access to this report. I hope you find it useful!

Here’s an excerpt from Page 2….

Generally, there is a rule that at a specified age (typically between 60 and 65), employees in an organisation are expected to retire. No one really talks about WHY they have to retire, but it appears to be generally assumed(or expected) that at that age, most people will no longer be able to meet the requirements for doing their jobs satisfactorily.(There is also the other matter, of creating room for “young/fresh blood” to enter.)

What appears not to have been considered in many cases, is whether or not this applies both to jobs requiring mainly physical exertion, and those which only demand mental exertion by the employee. In the former case, the fact that the ageing process leads to weakening of the body muscles, dulled reflexes etc cannot be denied. However, in the latter, what one notices are people assuming that since the body is ageing, then so will the mind (or brain)!.

That is probably why you and I would find it incredible that a 96-year-old man signed a five-year deal with a hotel in Las Vegas, USA instead of ten years because (wait for this!) he wasn’t sure the resort would last ten years”!3 Let’s face it, most “sensible” people would simply laugh at the old man for even thinking he had anything to offer – talk less of having him give the hoteliers a condition because he doubted they could last ten years!!
But then, THAT “old” man knew something others did not – and was certainly convinced about his ideas. What he knew is the reason why I have written this report. By the time you finish reading it, you will be armed with knowledge and good understanding of what ageing and experience ADD to a person that makes him/her MORE potentially useful to others.

You will in effect know what that “old” American man knew, and will (hopefully) use it to negotiate favourably for yourself in your later years. Most importantly, this knowledge will help you AVOID retiring your employees when they could still have more “USE VALUE” to offer, in exchange for the CASH value you give to them. This could be a key factor that determines the long term success or otherwise of your company/business.

How Did The Retirement At 60 Years Rule Come About?

The story about the origin of this retirement age palavar is quite an amusing one. Historical accounts have it that the “tradition” (if we can call it that) came into acceptance for a reason TOTALLY unconnected with age!

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PII 173: Astonishing Proof That You Never Need to Retire (True Story: How

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PII 166: Had No Parents, No Education. Was Stubborn, Disobedient. But He Had Qualities and Inspirations to Succeed – Bob Marley’s True Life Story

Click here (or the image above) to download the PDF version published on 21st May 2021.

UPDATE: Click here (or the image above) to download the PDF version published on 21st May 2021.

 

“Don’t look sad and forsaken. When one door is closed. don’t you know another is open?” – Bob Marley, COMING IN FROM THE CLOUD

Bob (Robert Nesta) Marley’s life story is an excellent example of a real grass to grace journey to success.

Bob was born to a black teenage village girl (17 year old) named Cedella – who got impregnated by Captain Narval Marley – a middle aged British soldier well past fifty years of age at the time.

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PII 166: Had No Parents, No Education. Was Stubborn, Disobedient. But He Had Qualities and Inspirations to Succeed – Bob Marley’s True Life Story

“Don’t look sad and forsaken. When one door is closed. don’t you know another is open?” – Bob Marley, COMING IN FROM THE CLOUD

Bob (Robert Nesta) Marley’s life story is an excellent example of a real grass to grace journey to success.

Bob was born to a black teenage village girl (17 year old) named Cedella – who got impregnated by Captain Narval Marley – a middle aged British soldier well past fifty years of age at the time.

In 1944, Narval incurred the wrath of his family by taking the honorable and bold step of marrying Cedella – resulting in his getting disinherited from the entire family wealth.

Undaunted Narval took Bob from Cedella and secretly fostered him away to one Mrs. Greg at Heywood Street, after which he left,  never to be seen or heard from again.

It was years later by a rare stroke of luck that the child and his mother were reunited when the latter was led to Mrs. Greg’s foster home. There she reclaimed Bob.

But things were not really going well for Cedella, who was barely making a living in the slums of Western Kingston. This made it difficult for her to really give Bob the care and attention needed by a child of his age. He was forced to find his own way.

The harsh circumstances of his early growing up years shaped him into the man he would become.

During an interview, Bob recalled  as follows:

“I grew stubborn, you know. Grew up without  mother and father. No parents to have an influence upon me. I just grew up in the ghetto with the rebellious youths. Stubborn, obeyed no one. But we had qualities and were good to one another. I had no education, but I had inspirations.”

His mother, Cedella had migrated to Delaware in the United States, leaving Bob to become more or less a rolling stone, living on the streets without a home to call his own.

But even in the rough streets, there was good to be found and had.

One example was Rita Anderson, who was one of those that treated Bob nice. She was good to him and loved him so much – to the extent that she actually secretly moved him into her room in the No. 18 Greenwich Park home she lived with her aunt at Kingston.

The inevitable eventually happened, as the aunty discovered what she had been doing – and promptly threw them out.

But they stuck together. Their love was that strong – so that they got married on February 10, 1966.

Then they persisted together, defying all the adversity they encountered, along with Bob’s band members – The Wailers – till they arrived at the pinnacle of world music success.

Rita  Marley would lead the band’s chorus girls right until Bob passed away on May 111, 1981.

At the risk of stating the obvious, Bob Marley achieve legendary greatness despite spending less than 40 years on earth – having started out in life as a poor, disadvantaged child with no parents, or education.

What an inspirational life he lived!

Bob Marley’s achievement within the short time he spent on earth is one that leaves the rest of us NO ROOM to make excuses for any failures we record.
Be Inspired!!!

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It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
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2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

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PII 165: [DVAM] So some social workers tell us “Children never lie” about sexual abuse? Garbage! Totally discredited herewith [READ THIS NEWS REPORT ABOUT A REAL LIFE USA COURT CASE]

In this special Public Service edition of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I share an excerpt, ending with a link to the full report about the heart-wrenching true story nightmare that vicious lies told by a vindictive school girl and her friends put an innocent school coach through. Not only did they ruin his good name, but he also ended up bankrupt and poor from paying legal fees to defend himself!

I ALWAYS wonder, what if THIS happened to me or to someone I love? How would I feel? What would I do?

The answers I come up with then guide my actions subsequently – which is why I’m publishing this repost of the report by Wes Vernon about this case, to SPREAD the word that these things happen, proving that we MUST be careful about taking claims made by kids TODAY, in serious matters of this nature on face value – lest we damage the lives of innocent others!

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PII 165: [DVAM] So some social workers tell us “Children never lie” about sexual abuse?  Garbage! Totally discredited herewith [READ THIS NEWS REPORT ABOUT A REAL LIFE USA COURT CASE]

One of the key qualities of an Emotionally Intelligent person is that they are MINDFUL of OTHERS i.e. how their actions affect others physically, emotionally etc.

It is my considered opinion, based on many years of interpersonal experience, that TOO MANY adults today, act with TOO LITTLE Emotional Intelligence.

Specifically, we fail to consciously put ourselves in the shoes of others we relate with or observe, and to think/act with consideration for them.

For instance, many of us never really stop to consider what a person we SEE or HEAR being falsely accused goes through, and how that experience might change (destroy) his/her life forever.

Typically, most people never really do more than (if at all) complain about unfairly that person was treated (e.g. s/he got sued to court, humiliated in cross-examination etc – only to days, weeks or years later be found INNOCENT of the charges upon which s/he was convicted).

We are mostly just too busy to be concerned for others, or look out for others who have bad experiences. The only time we pay attention is when it happens directly to us or to our loved ones. Then suddenly, we’re all up and about holding rallies, printing posters and clamouring for “something to be done”!

I’ve shared in the past Brian Bank’s painful story: Read PII 068: We Need to Stop Letting Naughty Females Succeed With False Accusations Against Men [Case Study: Woman Who Falsely Accused Brian Banks of Rape Ordered to Pay $2.6M] – on my Domestic Violence Against Men – Ideas for Identifying & Stopping It Page

The truth is apart from his mother, few people were willing to do anything other than standby and watch as Brian’s promising pro football career dreams got shot down by his conviction in court. His release years later could NOT repair that damage.

If truth be told, it all should never have happened in the first place. And that’s why we need to call attention to these cases to justify a change in the way accusations of this nature are handled. The fact that we want to protect and help victims is no reason to let innocent persons suffer for crimes they did not commit.

In this special Public Service edition of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I share an excerpt, ending with a link to the full report about the heart-wrenching true story nightmare that vicious lies told by a vindictive school girl and her friends put an innocent school coach through. Not only did they ruin his good name, but he also ended up bankrupt and poor from paying legal fees to defend himself!

I ALWAYS wonder, what if THIS happened to me or to someone I love? How would I feel? What would I do?

The answers I come up with then guide my actions subsequently – which is why I’m publishing this repost of the report by Wes Vernon about this case, to SPREAD the word that these things happen, proving that we MUST be careful about taking claims made by kids TODAY, in serious matters of this nature on face value – lest we damage the lives of innocent others!

Yes, some children do lie [Getting away with slander] – By Wes Vernon

May 16, 2011

So some social workers tell us “Children never lie” about sexual abuse?

Garbage! Totally discredited herewith:

But first some perspective

Dr. Richard A. Gardner, a Columbia University professor of child psychiatry, is skeptical of the practice of many Child Protective Service (CPS) workers who describe their job as that of “validators.”

That term, opines Dr. Gardner — whose thirty years of experience is noted on the website ChildCustodyCoach.com — raises questions about their objectivity.

“They, of course, hold that ‘children never lie about sexual abuse,’ and they accept as valid every statement a child makes that might verify sex abuse.” Dr. Gardner dissents.

A case history

His doubts are vindicated in a long article in Sunday’s Washington Post, about a 12-year-old “child” who lied through her teeth and — because she is a minor — does not have to pay a price for it.

Continue…

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/110516

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It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
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[DVAM] (Unwittingly) Coaching the children (to lie)

No child wants to be on the wrong side of a parent – generally. And when you have a parent who is skilled in emotional and psychological manipulation of others, kids can be like putty in his/her hand. S/he will simply mould them literally at will into what s/he wants.

They will become – literally – like real life puppets in his/her hands, and woe betide ANYONE s/he lets them loose on!

This excellent article by a competent legal expert throws some light on a serious problem that occurs more often than is acknowledged. It is what MANY so called “social workers and activists” often miss in taking testimonies from children who find themselves in between warring parents.

Read the excerpt below, and click the link provided to read the full piece.

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Click here to continue reading…

LEARN COUNTING FROM 1 TO 1,000 IN YORUBA LANGUAGE USING THIS CUSTOM MENU DRIVEN SPREADSHEET APP [With Optional MP3 Audio files]

6 months ago, I began toying with the idea of creating a spreadsheet application to help my daughters better understand how to count in our native Yoruba language.

Today – 3rd April 2019 – I am able to announce that a fully functional version of that application is now ready and I intend, like I did with my Storyfied Proverbs book back in 2014) to make it available for use by any interested persons.

See details below:

LEARN COUNTING FROM 1 TO 1.000 IN YORUBA LANGUAGE USING THIS CUSTOM MENU DRIVEN SPREADSHEET APP [With Optional MP3 Audio files]

I created this custom spreadsheet application as a tool for teaching my kids to count in our native Yoruba language. The girls can NOW count from 1 to 100 in Yoruba.

But I want them to use this table, with its drop down menu query interface (above) to master counting in Yoruba to 1,000 and beyond. It will help them refresh their memories, via repetition, so as to ensure long term retention.

It allows users to choose a number to display it’s full Yoruba meaning, complete with phonetic markings – AND automatically play AUDIO SNIPPETS OF ME & MY KIDS VOICES (REPLACEABLE WITH YOURS) CALLING OUT EACH NUMBER IN ENGLISH AND YORUBA.

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SMS your name, email address, and country to +234-803-302-1263 to request details of how to get it.

Below: Cover Photo and preview/link for my 10 Storyfied Proverbs Audio Book

Title: Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children

Sub title: Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children & and learners in general

Cover Photo - NEW Book titled Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children. Subtitle - Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children

[RECOMMENDED] The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author) – Amazon.com

Linked/previewed below (incl. screenshot of online store) with its blunt, truth telling matter-of-fact title (The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018– is yet another publication I’ve found – this time a full book, (available in print and digital formats) preaching the need for us to change the way we EDUCATE people!

And it has been chalking up high ratings from buyers/reviewers for its unapologetic message about how irrelevant our traditional schooling system has become, to our needs in the 21st century and the future we all see coming.

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author)

Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education

Despite being immensely popular–and immensely lucrative – education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students’ skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity?in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.

Click here to visit the online store to read the preview,  reviews, and buy it.

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Just yesterday, I published a new blog recommending the article titled “College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com”. In it, I linked to 3 other write-ups from several years earlier (two of them – one of which is a 62 page White Paper – written by me) on the same theme.

My eyes were opened to this problem through reading and listening to VISIONARY THINKERS like Robert Kiyosaki (author of If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don’t Go to School and Why A Students Work for C Students and Why B Students Work for the Government) and Sir Ken Robinson (TEDx talk titled Schools Kill Creativity).

It goes without saying that OUR numbers are growing i.e. those of us who SEE the harsh reality and are unafraid to say what others also SEE but are too scared to say or admit.

Like it or not, you – as a parent, teacher, or policy maker – will at some point (if you are yet to) come to ACCEPT that things need to change completely.

Our so called “education systems” no longer work well enough to support our individual societies.

We need to overhaul them and adopt a new system that is tried and tested. One which requires education to be DECENTRALIZED and customized to suit each child’s peculiar needs.

So much reinventing needs to be done – and societies that fail to make the needed changes WILL be left FAR behind by others that do!

It’s that simple.

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  2. Schools Can Kill Your Child’s Creativity – IF You Don’t Apply These Tips
  3. Conversation between Entrepreneur Parent and His Kids’ Lesson Teacher
  4. [BPP] This 2016 Viral Video Sues “School” for Killing Creativity, Individuality and being Intellectually Abusive

[RECOMMENDED] College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

On 1st November 2017, I posted a link recommending the article titled Why The Degree is Dying (and being replaced by something better) by Isaac Morehouse – Founder & CEO of Praxis.

Five years earlier, on 13th November 2012, I’d written an experience based blog post titled A New Generation of Entrepreneurs PROVES That Our Schools Need To Offer a Different Kind of Education!

That earlier piece voiced my concern about the serious need for a total overhaul of the formal schooling system which most societies continue to operate, despite glaring evidence that it was becoming less and less relevant to the real world learners would have to enter!

I have since gone on to publish a 62 page White Paper which I have been invited to discuss with policy makers’ representatives. Read TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

The article previewed/linked below was written on 4th September 2018, less than 6 months ago, and echoes the same sentiments expressed in the write-ups mentioned above. The obvious implication is that nothing has changed, and our schools continue to offer what is effectively irrelevant education.

College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

College is dying.

I’m not referring to the institutions — those will probably survive for a few more decades.

I’m referring to the paradigm.

A paradigm where in order to acquire education you have to:

  1. Select a single field of study.

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Continue reading…

The truth is that parents today need to take control of their children’s education and ensure it it customized for each child, based on his/her natural abilities, talents and genius.

If you are a wise parent, you will take this warning and make needed changes for your child’s sake, before it is too late!

PII 150: Stop Ancient Schooling: Your Child’s Success Depends on Her School’s Teaching Method [VIDEO: Jack Ma says “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”]

If we do not change the way we teach, thirty years from now we will be in trouble.” – Jack Ma, former teacher turned Billionaire founder of AliBaba.com speaking at the 2018 World Economic Forum [Watch full video at the link provided later in this issue]

Today’s parents (especially those in Nigeria/Africa) NEED to understand and accept that the PC/Internet Technology Revolution has PERMANENTLY changed the way REAL EDUCATION can – and should – be done,

As a result the “formal schooling” you provide to your kids MUST be adapted to suit the new needs created in society, by the revolution, so that it can deliver real world relevant know-how to learners.
Otherwise it will continue to be a WASTE of your kids’ time, effort and abilities and YOUR money…

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PII 150: Stop Ancient Schooling: Your Child’s Success Depends on Her School’s Teaching Method [VIDEO: Jack Ma says “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”]

If we do not change the way we teach, thirty years from now we will be in trouble.” – Jack Ma, former teacher turned Billionaire founder of AliBaba.com speaking at the 2018 World Economic Forum [Watch full video at the link provided later in this issue]

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Today’s parents (especially those in Nigeria/Africa) NEED to understand and accept that the PC/Internet Technology Revolution has PERMANENTLY changed the way REAL EDUCATION can – and should – be done,

As a result the “formal schooling” you provide to your kids MUST be adapted to suit the new needs created in society, by the revolution, so that it can deliver real world relevant know-how to learners.
Otherwise it will continue to be a WASTE of your kids’ time, effort and abilities and YOUR money e.g kids will leave schools unable to meet employers’ requirements, and lacking the competence to function in self-employment – despite their years of formal schooling preparation!

One example of how PC/Internet technology is being used to effect new teaching methods is what is seen happening in the Math Tutorial video shown below – with a kid doing the teaching :-)

I NEVER knew this “Common Core Box” method for doing multiplication, yet in this short video a few minutes, I NOW DO. And I did so without leaving my home, at 5.20a.m right from my laptop.
 
The implication of the above, is that MOST of what is being taught in schools can, today, be effectively taught and learned via Smartphones.
Indeed, the FREE online video based learning website  – www.khanacademy.org already PROVES this to be possible, with millions of teachers, students and their parents using it to achieve top class quality (and VERY pocket friendly) learning, regardless of their location, anywhere in the world – including the poorest countries in the developing world.
 
Sadly, for MOST Nigerian/African kids, regardless of how expensive and fancy their schools are, their teachers are unlikely to embrace this approach to teaching – because they remain stuck in the past, holding on to archaic teaching methods that NO LONGER serve the world’s needs!
Little wonder that I am yet to meet ONE Nigerian teacher or school owner who was aware of www.khanacademy.org BEFORE I mentioned it to him/her. And that’s no surprise because their kind would feel threatened by such a platform that makes learners independent of teachers and empowers them to do more thinking rather than engage in rote learning (aka cramming), which the teachers favour!
 

China’s Jack Ma, 54 year old billionaire business owner (worth over $27.9 billion today) once earned as little as $12 per month as a teacher.

His inspiring classic rags to riches story about how he endured countless repeated failures to get where he is today, is well known.
Recently, Jack gave a speech in which he used his experience based insights to tell the world that WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE EDUCATE OUR KIDS.
It’s a speech I strongly believe EVERY parent, teacher, policy maker and even students need to hear.

Click here to watch this CNN video of him speaking at the World Economic Forum, in which he noted that “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”.

Or watch the Youtube Video below:

Jack Ma is right.
More emphasis now needs to be placed by our schools, on teaching learners/kids especially, soft skills – thinking, creativity, innovation are qualities that will equip our kids to succeed in a world where KNOWING stuff is no longer enough, given the robot/automation/artificial intelligence driven nature of today’s societies.

The rest of the world is listening to Jack Ma…but Nigeria/(some countries in Africa) seem(s) NOT to be keen to do so!

I know this from studying trends in the evolution of education worldwide over the past decade – in line with my work on Best Practice Parenting.
Countries like Finland have been leading the way long before now, in this regard. Experts like Robert Kiyosaki have been screaming for decades that we need to change the way we teach kids and WHAT we teach them.
 
But Nigeria continues to lag behind. And out kids are leaving school often boasting few if at all any competencies that make them internationally competitive. And even locally, they struggle to find relevance.
 
I am a product of Nigeria’s schooling system and I know what it feels like to discover that what you learnt in school is NOT enough to help you excel or flourish to your full potential, outside paid employment in your own society.
This is why today, I earn a living using skills I never learne din school after I unlearned, and relearned a lot of the things I was taught in school.
It was a most painfully excruciating experience – especially due to the fact that I got mocked and ridiculed for years, by those with much less schooling than I had, for not being able to fend for myself and my family, inspite of my brilliant academic abilities, and qualifications.
That drove me to spend thousands of hours thinking about what was wrong in the education i’d received, and I also did lots of reading to learn what I was missing, until it clicked.
I realized what I lacked and proceeded to begin, slowly and painstakingly developing the needed competencies.

Today, my new self-taught abilities enable me earn income in ways that others have told me are ground breaking especially out here in Nigeria/Africa.

I am also able to repeatedly defy adversity and failure to bounce back to success, no matter what life throws at me – because I NOW POSSESS these abilities – none of which is taught in formal conventional schools!
 
That’s why I wrote my 62 page White Paper titled “Schooling is a Means to and End, and NOT an End In itselt” – see details of how to get your copy, below.

TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

PII 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]

PII 132 – Part 2 of 2 [New Report] Stop Letting Nigerian Schools Cheat You, and Your Child – Best Practice Parenting Ideas

Get these 2 FREE PDF Downloads on Best Practice Parenting and Education from Me When You Join my Best Practice Parenting Group on Whatsapp

  1. Stop Letting Nigerian Schools Cheat You & Your Child! [How Nigeria’s Law About Children’s “Right to Basic Education” Is Made Impotent Via “Poor Quality Education” Children Get Served DAILY in MANY Nigerian Schools]
  2. Schooling Is a Means to an End, and NOT an End In Itself [Hard Truths Parents, Teachers & Policy Makers Need to Understand, to “Educate” Kids for “Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Success” in the 21st Century!]

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Below: Screenshot of a page from the 62 page version of the PDF report

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Text me your WhatsApp Number via +234-803-302-1263 (not my Whatsapp no!) and I’ll add you to my Best Practice Parenting™ group where download links to BOTH this report and the 62 page White Paper are accessible

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
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EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

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PII 149: Live, Sleep, Eat, Drink What You Do, to Achieve Success [VIDEO INTERVIEW of Ruthie Davis – Award Winning Shoe Designer]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the message contained in this excellent video interview by Babson College, of Ruthie Davis – an award winning shoe designer, who is an alumnus of the institution.
Now, in as much as the video is self-serving for the authoring institution, Ruthie’s message resonates greatly with me, because I KNOW, from my experiences as an entrepreneur that what she says is true. Her insights are accurate and can help others.
That is why I have chosen to share THAT video with you, to start off 2019, along with a verbatim text transcript I have prepared. Note also that I have added a link to a downloadable mobile friendly version of the video you can watch offline.
Here’s wishing you greater joy, success and fulfillment in 2019 and beyond!

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PII 149: Live, Sleep, Eat, Drink What You Do, to Achieve Success [VIDEO INTERVIEW of Ruthie Davis – Award Winning Shoe Designer]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the message contained in this excellent video interview by Babson College, of Ruthie Davis – an award winning shoe designer, who is an alumnus of the institution.

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Now, in as much as the video is self-serving for the authoring institution, Ruthie’s message resonates greatly with me, because I KNOW, from my experiences as an entrepreneur that what she says is true. Her insights are accurate and can help others.
That is why I have chosen to share THAT video with you (see embedded version below), to start off 2019, along with a verbatim text transcript I have prepared.

Here’s the transcript, followed by the video:

Those who dream, we call DREAMERS.

Those who do, we call ENTREPRENEURS.

INTERVIEW – BABSON UNIVERSITY, USA

Ruthie Davis, MBA ’93
Award Winning Lead Designer and President Ruthie Davis Shoes

===Starts===
“I literally dream about shoes, all the time.

I live, sleep, eat, drink fashion.

It’s not something I separate. I’m like always designing.

Historically, both in ready to wear and in shoes and accessories, it has been men.

I’m kind of the new garde, which is “wait minute, why shouldn’t a woman know what a woman wants when it comes to footwear?”

I’m always telling young designers, who are very creative coming out of art schools:

“You’ve got to learn the business. In the world we live today, you can’t just sit in the corner and draw shoes, for example. You have to know how to market the shoes. You have to know how to sell the shoes. You have to know how to cost the shoes. You know…you don’t design into a vacuum.

To be an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be like myself – the LEAD entrepreneur.

You know, the people who work for me, they all have to be entrepreneurs. So it’s really a way of thinking. It’s an empowering way of thinking. It’s an accountability. It’s you can make a difference. It’s going to your job and not just thinking that you’re a cog in the wheel. It’s thinking like you could affect the wheel. You can innovate the wheel. You can make it a better wheel. That kind of thinking is so important for any type of job, any type of career – and especially design.

I think having my entrepreneurship background gave me that confidence that I could go out on a limb and innovate. “

===Ends===

Note also that I have added a link to a downloadable mobile friendly 3GP version  (3.34 MB) of the video you can watch offline (right-click here to get it). 

TIP: Click here to watch it on Youtube

Here’s wishing you greater joy, success and fulfillment in 2019 and beyond!

 

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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