SCHOOLING IN A VILLAGE IS MORE ADVANTAGEOUS THAN SCHOOLING IN A CITY
Good afternoon Mr. Chairman, Panel of Judges, Time Keeper. co-debater. fellow students, ladies and gentlemen, I am Dupe Omo representing Saint Michael's High School and I am here to support the motion which says schooling in a village is more advantageous than schooling in a city.
No doubt, schooling in a village is far better than schooling in a city and I am here to convince you of this. A student who schools in the village is exposed to a conducive learning environment; all round education; is disciplined; more hard working and performs better in exams. He is also exposed to quality teachers who are dedicated and industrious.
The first point to support my stand is the conducive learning environment. In the cities, there is usually overcrowding such that factories and business premises exist side by side with schools. Coupled with this is the usually heavy vehicular traffic in cities. These act as distractions to the students as there is constant noise pollution from both factories and vehicles. These noises prevent students from hearing what their teachers are teaching them, thus preventing proper learning. In the village, you do not have such problems and so students are better focused on their lectures.
A good quality, all round education includes not only classroom teachings and lectures but also outdoor activities like sports and games. As the saying goes, all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. Education or schooling in the city certainly produces dull and unimaginative students as city schools do not have sporting facilities, unlike what you have in the village schools. Because of space constraint, schools in the cities do not have sporting facilities, there is just space for the classrooms and laboratories. Thus, city schools hardly organise or take part in inter-house sports or inter-school sporting events. This is not good for quality education as it might lead to brain fatigue. Village schools, on the other hand have enough space to build sporting complexes that help students to have an all-round development.
Discipline, the bedrock of any organisation. especially schools, is often missing in city schools. Students from city schools are often very unruly, they lack discipline. unlike what obtains in village schools. Students in city schools are often perpetual late corners to school and they blame this on the traffic jams experienced in the cities. Their manner of dressing also depicts the foreign influence they are exposed to through television programmes and movies. To make the situation worse is the fact that teachers can hardly discipline these students because of fear of been sacked by school proprietors or harassed by parents, whose modern idea of schooling is that the teachers should merely teach, and nothing more. This is not the case in village schools as the whole community. including the schools, look out for one another. The parents know the teachers and vice versa and an erring student can be punished by the teacher without the school or parents frowning at it because they know the teacher has their interest at heart. Little wonder that today, we have more cult groups in city schools than we have in village schools.
Also, schooling in the village is more advantageous than schooling in the city because village schools have more committed and dedicated teachers than the city school teachers, who are often driven by greed to take on other jobs to supplement their salaries.
Thus, teachers in city schools often have two or three other jobs apart from their teaching jobs. This is not good for both the teacher and the students; the teacher is often distracted and fatigued and unable to teach properly. which tells on the learning process of the students. This is not the case in village schools.
To buttress my argument, most tertiary institutions are established in rural areas, away from the distracting influence of the cities, in recognition of the need for total concentration for a qualitative education. And I want to conclude by saying that setting up schools in villages and rural areas should be encouraged for the reasons above.
Mr. Chairman, Panel of Judges, ladies and gentlemen, with these points of mine, I hope I have been able to convince you that schooling in a village is more advantageous than schooling in a city.
Thank you.