English is Necessary

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 I have been quietly thinking, if not for amusement, how could ever science - just imagine how we come to know about Newton's law of motion, Boyle's law etc. - be meaningful without language? 


Was it because Buhari was speaking Hausa comfortably when he ill-advised the students who by all conjuncture, I'm even certain, need English more than the science to comprehend the science embedded in the language they are being taught with in their school. 85% of students who fail, in the North to be specific, their exams have been usually as the result of the gap in communication. Many of them are too intelligent to fail (believe me); if not for deficiency in English, they would have been doing well.


Also, there are many who English has made to be opportunistic. It is not because they are the smartest but lucky somewhere to be able to speak the language and thus, opportunities keep on knocking their doors. Some even rose to hold political offices with no practical ingenuity of scientific thoughts. 


Imagine, if English is not Important why are we perturbing students to learn it or force them to pass it in their exams. Minister of education (who is also language opportunistic with his articles used to write in challenging previous government) should note this, perhaps our call for native language utilization is holding water, if English is not. 


Unanimously, it's believed that one can only know where he heads, if he knew where he was. We witnessed El-Rufa'i's historical review in the selection of Zazzau's new king. I wonder, then, if Buhari was aware of this. I am sure he would have summited that  El-Rufa'i's excuse as a prattle and twaddle (though never believed El-Rufa'i's assertion as a means of selecting the best among the seekers). In effect, I think, Buhari has missed his shot to sense than to taunting himself. He forgot, may be he never gives a damn to see the stylistic self-clensing autobiographical and historical justification of his predecessors like Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, until it's his turn that he will be writing his, too. All they wrote were more than books but fragments of history that the posterity will study one day. Even him, the president, would have succeeded, if he had read well of the history of noble leaders- imagine reading about caliph Umar (R.A) - but he gladly overlooked that fact.


Finally, those kids should know English is necessary, if not most important thing in their studies. History is critically and inexcusably necessary in understanding who we are that even in science, we normally revisit the antecedents that spurred the research and discoveries that someone did for one to further his/her own research (in advance literature review) on that. They should also not forget that, If not for the lackadaisical attitude of Buhari's government, their lives would not have been endangered to the level of been abducted. I wished they reminded him of their poor classes and laboratories - their science is poorly theoretical than practical - that his government could do nothing about them. Also,  they should have reminded him that his twaddle would have been a better, if he had shifted from celebrating their return to reshuffling his security chiefs and creating alleviating schemes far effectively sincere than the ones infesting more nepotism and corruption. Above all, the president was right that they should stay focused to their studies because the future rests, however, on their shoulders. 


Undoubtedly, English and History are spices of improving life and science in the modern day.


I don't want to talk about how someone (respected elite) asked me to write his family history, but I refused......


Anas Ɗansalma

25/12/2020

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