What is education for?
I will go back to first principles: what is the point of education, and are you actually getting educated?
For some of us that went to government universities in Nigeria, any of the learning that we did was self-taught at the end of the day. Yes, you had the environment where people were supposedly teaching you these things, but you have to teach yourself these things. It's almost like university is a time for you to go learn how to do things yourself. Pretty much you're just borrowing time for you to self-teach.
At the time we're paying 28k, maybe $100, $200 per year for school. But it gives you the space and the context to learn. And you still get the same paper at the end of the day that somebody that went to expensive uni will get.
Even from school, I could notice: if the only way I was getting educated was coming to class and listen to this person that doesn't really care about me throw words at me that he prepared from decades ago… He's not bothered to update it. He's just giving you the same thing as legacy. If that was your only way of getting educated, it will show when you graduate.
Make sure you're educated in the real sense of the word. Not that you went to school; that you are educated. Because that's what is going to make you malleable to make decisions as different things are changing. Right now 10 years of things are happening in six months in our world. And if you don't have the tools to be able to process that amount of change, even if it's not change that is very apparent to you right now… being able to process that information is what's important.
Said out loud on Sensemaking with Wolé & Tobi, Episode 113, “If We Were 18 Today, Would We Still Go to Uni?”, released 2 March 2026. Trimmed for filler; not rewritten.