Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

When you know The purpose of marriage Is to raise godly offspring You will marry carefully When you know The purpose of your faculty Is to invest in thinking You will deploy it differently  When you know The purpose of eating Is to gain strength and health You will eat carefully When you know The purpose of truth Is to make you free You will listen differently When you know The purpose of life Is to fulfill a divine destiny You will live carefully When you know The purpose of money Is to procure value and pure knowledge You will spend differently When you know The purpose of star talent Is to shine as light-in-darkness You will complain carefully When you know The purpose of youth Is to prepare for a good old age You will work differently When you know The purpose of birthing children Is to be a lifelong coach You will procreate carefully When you know The purpose of leadership Is to fully imitate Christ You will follow differently When you know The purpose of the present Is to create

Without doubt Nigerian National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC ) deployments have been useful in filling manpower gaps across the country, especially disparities in the availability and quality of subject teachers.  For instance, during my National Youth Service year, I was deployed to teach Mathematics at a government junior secondary school in Goepaal , Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau State. There I taught the entire arm of junior secondary school One (JSS 1) students. Some other Youth Corps members within the Local Government Area were the pioneer teachers of some science subjects in the schools to which they were deployed. By and large, when given primary teaching assignments,Youth Corps members are assigned to teach at educational institutions, based on the assumption that they know enough (about classroom management, lesson plan preparation, student learning styles, teaching effectiveness etc)  to function effectively at those assignments. As they say, assumption i