This sounds like a contradiction, but it is the truth. When a man thinks he has knowledge just for the purpose of feeling good about himself without giving priority to others (to adding value and service to humanity and the society), he is not just ignorant , but ignorant-personified.
From my observation, I have discovered that what controls people who are graduates, those who venture into business activities, establish institutions and become public leaders, is this mindset of "acquisition just for the feeling of importance without giving priority to human development."
Check out third world nations; most especially underdeveloped and developing nations, you will find the predominance of this ideology not just in individuals but in its operation.
Homes, institutions, societies, states, and nations ruled by such individuals will never experience real transformation.
Listed below are some of the symptoms:
1. Value for money without little or no recognition for human life.
2. Respect for personalities without the value for principles.
3. Failed and manipulated justice system.
4. Unnecessary delay in processes and procedures that should emerge for development.
5. Formulation of guiding laws for the Favour of the selected few.
6. Unprincipled leadership.
7. Inequality within the system of governance.
8. Disregard for hard work and industry.
9. Abuse and waste of valuable resources for the pursuit of public recognition.
10. Detestation for creativity and innovation.
With the aforementioned symptoms, I encourage you to do your own study using homes, societies, institutions, states and nations as case studies, you would be overwhelmed by the outcome.
My encouragement is, before any change can really take effect in any society such as ours, responsibility must be accepted for a shift in the paradigms of the people.
Therefore, what is the way out of these as the case may be:
1. Deleting from our body of rules, regulations and policies that promotes inequality, favoritism, in our system.2. Establishment of laws that would make public offices financially unattractive but service oriented.
3. Reinforcement of a workable judicial system that would be void of unnecessary delay schemes.
4. Provision of an enabling ground where everyone should be responsible for the management of their resources.
5. Recreation of an educational system that values innovation, creativity, and that would form the basis of economic development. Not a system that is interested in breeding graduates without practicable experience and an economy-friendly knowledge.
As I conclude this subject of discussion, I would like to say with all sense of humility and passion that, until we take responsibility for our transformation as individuals, institutions, societies and nations, our expectation would remain a daydream.
I remain your friend and strategist.Reference: 1 Corinthians 8:1-2
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