The decreasing trend at which youth seek for knowledge by reading is alarming. Children now revere music than mathematics. The irony of the matter is that music and fashion holds the dagger that we can use to eliminate poverty and illiteracy. The world is at its abyss of destruction. Our bright future that once heralds like a shinning sun is now overshadowed by dark indestructible clouds of failure.
Music is given deference and knowledge is repudiated. It now seems like everybody, but a few, now shows a repugnance to the presence of knowledge. No wonder the rate of failure in this country is increasing exponentially. The most productive period of man’s life which is the adolescence or youth period is now jeopardized by the media viz music, television, Internet, radio, magazines, newspaper e.t.c. and is posing a serious threat to the beautiful future which we dream of.
The brain is the complex organ which processes the thought of inquisitiveness and curiosity in man. But this brain, where the knowledge of the success of the future lies, is so vulnerable that it can easily accept any data or information input into it. Research studies have even shown that most music have a negative effect on memory retention as it replaces drastically the knowledge of books that have been learnt. The kind of music that is created nowadays is unscrupulous and full of debauchery. The setting is so filled with sensual, half-nude women posing themselves to taint the mind of the youth.
I cannot but agree and averred a state of emergency in the music and television industry. Many parents also contribute to this problem as they are not showing cognizance of the fact that the children are becoming ignoramus every blessed day.
The UNESCO recommended 26% as the budget of the education sector but Nigeria have always managed to allocate 8% of the whole budget to education while she promises the entertainment sector a whooping sum of 200 million USD. Where lies the hope of the future?
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