12/07/2025
278 IN UTME. I CHOSE EDUCATION. AND EVERYONE LOST THEIR MINDS.
"Why would someone so intelligent waste a score like that on Education?"
"You should be studying Medicine."
"You deserve better."
NO.
Education is not a waste. I didn’t deserve “better.” I deserved my DREAM.
And my dream was to TEACH. To build minds. To change lives.
But in Nigeria, when you say you want to teach, people act like you’ve failed, like you're unintelligent
🎯 First semester -12 courses: 11 A’s, 1 B.
Boom. HOD of Physics offered me a department switch and a future job after M.Sc.
I said NO. Not because the offer wasn’t tempting.
But because I knew myself - and I knew I wasn’t called to just chase titles.
I was born to build futures.
But guess what?
🚨 Now, JAMB just released the 2025 UTME cut-off for Colleges of Education: 100.
Let that sink in. NOT AVERAGE! NOT 150! NOT 140!
ONE HUNDRED.
And we’re out here screaming about “half-baked teachers”?
How won’t they be half-baked when we admit students with 100 marks to train the nation’s future?
🤯 You need over 200 to study Law or Medicine…
But just 100 to teach those who will become lawyers and doctors?
This is madness.
Let me be blunt:
👉🏽 A country that treats education like a dustbin for rejected students will never rise.
👉🏽 A system where “intelligent” people are told they’re too smart to teach is doomed.
👉🏽 A nation that sets the bar so low for teacher training is signing its own death sentence.
When NECO visited my school and saw 70% of teachers were B.Sc holders, they raised eyebrows.
But any school that’s truly intentional about excellence won’t gamble with teachers’ quality.
We’re raising thinkers, not just filling periods.
Why is this hard to understand?
💥 TEACHERS are not plan B.
💥 TEACHERS are the MAIN PLAN.
💥 A country that undervalues its educators has no business dreaming of development.
Stop telling brilliant students that “they deserve better than Education.”
Make EDUCATION deserve brilliant students.
Until we fix this narrative, we are going nowhere.
278 for Education. And I REGRET NOTHING.
I didn’t settle.
I CHOSE. And I’m still choosing - every single day.
📢 Share this if you believe Nigeria’s education system needs a reset.
I am Owoade Mariam and I know that the Nigerian education system deserves better.
