E118-On the job 3

I come from a well educated family and was raised on the mantra of what education will do for you. My coming over to the UK opened my eyes to what real education is.Many of the people that were my bosses did not make it to the university and the ones that did had just the first degree. Yet they were masters at what they do.Many of them have done the same job since they were teenagers and so theres no amount of degree that will qualify you better than they are at the job. They were experts at whatever they chose to do. My mind drifted to many of the professors back home that have not made any significant contribution to their fields of speciality. There are academicians here as well with strings of degrees and they are the tink-tank behind the productive industries.One of my lecturers used to be the head of scweppes and many have held productive roles in the industry and still consults regularly. There are not too many people in this in this category unlike where every jack is called a professor back home. I learnt that education is not confined to the classroom and sometimes aptitude does not translate to productivity. one of the problems with Nigeria is too many graduates vying for few jobs. Many would have been better going to the polytechnics and many more to the technical colleges.