22/05/2025
"EDUCATION IS A SCAM"
Growing up, I spent a lot of time at my uncle’s house (Mum's elder brother) while attending university because he lived in the same town I had my universityeducation.
He had a house help named Nkemdirim who was a little older than me, who had never been to school and came from a very remote village. Obviously my uncle’s house was his first time of coming to town.
My uncle and I tried encouraging him to learn a skill or start a business, but Nkemdirim preferred opening a small local restaurant instead. He ran it at his own level.
One day, my uncle told me, “If you ran this same restaurant, you'd do it differently and make more money because you're educated.”
That moment stuck with me; so education shapes how we manage things.
EDUCATION IS NOT A SCAM!!!
Fast forward to my birthday a few days ago, I needed a makeup artist and ended up at a small salon with a banner offering "free makeup." I never noticed the free advert though.
While I was getting my makeup done, another woman came in and asked about the free service. The artist laughed and said it was just a strategy to attract customers.
She had half education and could barely communicate in English language.
She started schooling me about STRATEGY and how adding a free makeup service to the advert, which she does not actually offer is her best STRATEGY to attract clients. Being that I did a program on business development strategy and one of my courses currently in school is STRATEGIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT I knew immediately she needed help.
She has the idea but lacks the intellectual capability to apply that her idea. So I had to educate her properly about business strategy, you do not apply a strategy that questions your integrity.
How can you advertise a service to be free, a client came, hoping to get a free service only for you to tell her that it's a prank (because that's not strategy) just to get her to come.
Trust me, you have lost that client and other clients that would have come through her.
You have also punctured your integrity.
If she had a little more education, she would have known that what she was doing was a PRANK and not a STRATEGY.
AGAIN, EDUCATION IS NOT A SCAM!!!
Now the picture attached also proves that education is not a scam
Then there was the cake vendor. A client asked her to write “Happy Birthday on both cakes.” She misunderstood and literally wrote “Happy Birthday on both” on each cake. A simple mistake—but one that basic education could have prevented.
These moments made one thing very clear: EDUCATION IS NOT A SCAM.
Even in small businesses, a little education can make a big difference.
The post emphasizes that while education alone doesn't guarantee success, it enhances understanding, decision-making, and credibility in any business.
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