Hey TIM world, how goes it with the new year? From my little corner of the world, I wish y’all a happy new year . I’m here with another “all things trending” and this y’all are gonna love.
So, we’re barely into the first half of the first month of the year before a challenge sprung up, this time, it wasn’t a ridiculous potentially dangerous dance move. This actually had some good in it, at least I’d like to think so. This challenge is called “the 10 year challenge”, I believe this was supposed to be fun as well as reflective of how far we’ve come in 10 years. So, even if I don’t personally subscribe to the internet rage and frenzy of wanting to attempt everything one sees on the internet, I could appreciate the thought behind the whole thing. That is until in our typical Naija fashion, we took it just one step further than it should’ve been taken. Cos I think dem bleached slay queens forgot they weren’t quite ‘hawt’ 10 years ago. And then some people forget we know them, and they be claiming 10yrs challenge with pictures from 3yrs ago. I’m like nigga please *insert eye roll* I be knowing yo broke ass when we were looking for garri to soak back then in school. Don’t be forming “didn’t change much with them 3y/o pictures. Some girls and I’m sad to say guys also took to the challenge and came up with pictures that leave you wondering what would remain of their bleached selves in another 10yrs, some people are fitting to bleach their skins away, all in the bid to fit in.
SMH…
We also have had some pretty hilarious pictures, I trust my Naija people na, we no dey ever carry last. Na we dem see finish come coin “suffering and smiling”
Anyhow, as always, barely 2 days into all the craziness, a story broke. Apparently a lady was left by her significant other, because the ‘her in her’, (philosophy shidren, una dey here so?) has supposedly come a long way, make that a far off the mark, long way and the guy couldn’t deal with dating a lady that was once as black as night, now as white as snow. It’s like the transformation agenda of the last regime and the change of the present regime took place in one person. No be me talk am ooo.
Immediately I saw the story, all I could think was; “pe pe ri pe, pe pe ri pe pe, pe pe pe pe, no go dey do pass yourself”
Just because everyone is doing something doesn’t mean you should, know your worth. Cos sometimes trying to prove you’re better is an insult to yourself.
Instead, think about how far you’ve come in 10yrs, your mistakes and achievements and how you’re going to be better than even your imaginations in the next 10 yrs.
I remain your girl, QuietStorm; the living weirdo.
Peace!
By Oluchi Ibeto
All Things Trending 
The dictionary and so many other scholars have defined knowledge in the different ways but with emphasis on it as a “noun”. In practice, elites have termed knowledge to be skill and efficiency, society has termed it running streets, labour market terms it paper qualification, and for clarity sake in this work, it is termed ‘the known’; simply put, refined information. The philosopher Socrates said, “to know good is to do good, and not to know good is to do evil” which means that what you do or not do reflects what you know or don’t know (your action and inaction reflects your knowledge and ignorance), and as the work unfolds, the components of K such as culture, education, and skill acquisition, will be illuminated.
Academically education is basically divided into formal or informal education. Here, we will look at education from both the idealist and empiricist view. The idealist (idealism) which is championed by Plato, the philosopher conceives education from the Greek word “educere” which means to “lead out”. That is to say that man is born with an innate idea, there are things which one just knows how to do perfectly well or just understands so easily as though one has done that for a long while, this school of thought explains that it is so because one has known those things already, but is unaware of the existence of such abilities or ideas, so education becomes the way to lead such abilities and ideas out, bringing it to the open where the person is aware and makes use of them. For the empiricists (empiricism) the notion of education conceived by John Locke is derived from the Greek work “educare”, which means “to train or teach”. The idea behind this notion is that man was born ‘tabula raza’ which means ‘empty/blank slate’, this literally means that man knows nothing except what he has been thought by his environment or nurture. The point here is not state which school of thought has it right or wrong because they both make salient points which is the focus of this column. This point is that the essence of education is to lead out and to train or to teach; to bring to awareness by leading out that which is unseen but exists, one may refer to such as “potentials” and then, to teach that which is unknown, good enough they both work hand in hand, flowing from the unknown to the known. Why is this the case? Simply because every good teacher with the aim of having successful students must be to teach them effectively by relating from what he assumes or is certain that they already know, and every good student, who is not a paper student, (students who read or just cram to pass exams), relates to understands something new from what they already know, think of it, it is difficult to relate with something you have never seen before, if you are able to flow easily with something new, it simply because you have been able to relate that to something you already known, hence, the implication of Socrates’ Socratic method. Education on this level is basically about everything that can be known both by interest and necessity. Such includes, skill acquisition. For whatever you want to be (interest), acquire a skill that will help you achieve that and enhance the innate idea and ability that has prompted that within you(necessity), also pick a vocation that equips and develops you better for the kind of problems you want to solve(interest). Education is incomplete if self is not developed.
Merriam Webster defines culture to be the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religion or social group. In the 20thc, the subject social studies defines culture as the totality of a people’s way of life. Humans when thrown into existence stumble on circumstances in a bid to identify the essence of their existence and become accepted by each other in the society they find themselves, they unconsciously begin to come up with means and patterns which inversely is their response to challenges in their environment, gradually these patterns discovered in the face challenges and self-actualization become a way of life and a norm which over time metamorphose into the culture of a society and is passed on to generations. As the society grows and develops there may be a paradigm shift as a result of model crisis, and just like in science, there will be hypothesis, experiment, observation, test, theory, law and the cycle goes on, but the sole aim is to solve that problem. One may wonder what this may be driving at, the point is one fundamental knowledge that must be gathered is the knowledge of culture, in knowing the culture one understands “the why” behind the norms, standards and values of a people, this one knowledge is key to any successful revolution.
