Brown University has the distinct misfortune of constantly receiving the worst ranking amongst Ivy League schools within the highly regarded US Information and World Reviews rankings that are released yearly. Diane F. Halpern, a psychologist and past-president of the American Psychological Affiliation (APA), wrote in her essay contribution to Why Sensible Folks Can Be So Stupid that on the whole, we recognize people as clever if they’ve some mixture of these achievements (1) good grades in class; (2) a high level of schooling; (3) a responsible, advanced job; (4) some other recognition of being intelligent, such as winning prestigious awards or incomes a large wage; (5) the ability to learn complicated text with good comprehension; (6) solve troublesome and novel issues.

Academics should be involved in examination actions and examination bodies ought to at all times publish examination reports and distribute it to varied faculties for them to carry college workshop for training of topic teachers on their areas of weaknesses noticed in the college students’ scripts with reference to following the marking scheme.

We inform our kids that nothing is extra important than getting a “good” training, and yearly, as a consequence of authorities funds shortfalls, teachers are laid off, classes are condensed, colleges are closed, and lots of educational applications – especially those which assist the underprivileged – are cut.

My want to hunt answers to those questions inspired many hours of intense analysis which included the reading of 6 books, a whole lot of research documents, and numerous hours on the Internet; which pales compared to the lifetime of research and research that pioneers within the fields of intelligence and schooling like Howard Gardner, Richard Sternberg, Linda S. Gottfredson, Thomas Sowell, Alfie Kohn, and Diane F. Halpern whose work is cited in this article.

As we’ve earlier pointed out the varied roles English within the attainment and sustenance of national unity however, I imagine it would have been better if the position(s) performed up to now by English had been performed by an indigenous language, this is no intension or try to disrespect English language, it has significantly contributed to Nigeria’s national unity.