There are many factors critical to achieving success in life: time management, clear goals, positive attitude, discipline, self-motivation, hardworking and many others are examples of such factors. In the same vein, these stated factors are responsible to achieving academic success which is a goal to all learners and a desire of all parents for their kids.
This article will focus on hard work, a variable considered to be the mother of all other factors necessary for success, without which the rest will yield no positive result. Exposing and equipping our kids with knowledge of true success will empower them to make quality decisions. There is no doubt that the happenings in our country are continuously handing out criminal approaches to success and false knowledge to the upcoming generations. Many have believed and accepted that the price of success in Nigeria is monetary, while others believe it is in human connections one has. For this reason, the well-to-do parents can afford certificates for their kids and use their connections to secure juicy appointments for them in public or private sector. This approach to success we have accepted and referred to as Nigeria factor.
It is appalling in our dear country that paper qualification has been erroneously taken as academic excellence. Money and connections may purchase certificate, but cannot purchase academic excellence. It takes hard work to be successful in one’s academic pursuit. This message is for every Nigerian child, and every Nigerian parent should accept it.
For this reason, the mantra, “high pressure, high performance” is what every child in JC Best Schools International hears and works with, every day. There is also a popular parlance in JC Best Schools which says that “hard work does not kill”. All these are various ways our institution tends to communicate to our pupils, students and parents that there is no other way to success except hard work.
Hard work is a universal and absolute value that cuts across ages, times and cultures. It is an age-long shared and cherished value that is result-oriented. It produces results in any environments, at all times, not minding who is involved, white or black, old or young, man or woman, educated or uneducated, Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, It works for all people in all climes. It is noteworthy to state that hardworking is a value with predictable outcome. Apply it in the negative, it will produce negative success, in the positive, it will produce positive success.
Note again that our contemporary society is averse to discipline and destitute of hard work. This finding is discoverable in the school environment, the germination stage of societal ills and a good testing laboratory for upcoming generations. So what do we do with our finding? An honest partnership of government authorities, academic institutions and parents to battle to a standstill the criminal approach to success. Instilling in our kids conscientiously, the true approaches to success. For us in JC Best Schools, we will keep preaching the good message that “high pressure brings high performance” and “hard work does not kill”.
Eboh Izuchukwu Onyebuchi
(Resident Pastor)
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