Teacher Dont Teach Me Nonsense

By Bolaji Ola-Adams

No student can do well academically unless they cooperate with their own learning pattern. This book is a guide to academic and life success. It gives each student the tools necessary for learning and understanding what is taught. It helps each student find their own genius and ways to excel better than anyone else. It is the essential antidote for the current mass academic failure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bolaji Ola-Adams
• Release date: Dec 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370943838

Bolaji Ola-Adams

Bolaji Ola-Adams, is an Author, Motivational Speaker and an Entreprenuer. He currently serves on the board of a number of companies, offering professional advice that greatly impacts on the productivity and growth of these companies. He is a personal coach to several C.E.Os, helping them to articulate their visions, both individual and corporate and asking relevant questions that create the enabling environment that gives room for the development of strategies that makes the result they want to achieve attainable. He travels widely and speaks yearly in several high profile seminars and conferences around the world, creating positive response in his audience and helping them to realize that it is within the power of everyone to create the tomorrow they hope for. He believes that any negative circumstance can be turned around in the positive direction if the essential principles are understood and implemented. He seeks to empower people everywhere with the techniques essential for personal growth and financial freedom. He is carrying this mission with great commitment and passion, pushing through his insightful information in every nook and cranny of the society with every resource available.

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TEACHER DON’T TEACH ME NONSENSE

BOLAJI OLA-ADAMS

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© Bolaji Ola-Adams 2017

First Printing 2009

Second Printing 2017

ISBN: 978-978-900-320-4

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be used without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in magazine, articles, reviews, etc.

To my darling wife, Naomi, and our children, Toluwani, Mobolaji and Akinola.

Contents

Introduction

One

Introduction

Times are changing and the reality on the ground is that we need to find new answers to questions we have often solved in a very different way in the past. Many students and professionals today are struggling with the burden of how to excel in their academic or professional studies. This burden, rather than being met with a whole new set of thinking has been looked at from the initial response of, Maybe you are not supposed to be in school. I once had this challenge. From my earlier academic days to my university days, I bumped exams. I always managed to get by and gather enough grades to move me to the next class or the next level.

Years after graduation, I was confronted with having to counsel a group of students on how they could make remarkable success in their education. This challenge forced me to look not only into my own life and re-capture those times I had done extremely well in my academics but also in the lives of other top fleet students who were constantly making the A's and to find out what strategies they adopted in achieving academic excellence. I believe that whatever anyone achieves, you can also achieve. The most important thing is to find out how they did it and apply those principles. This book will help those who are currently not doing well in their academics to discover how they can overcome failure and move on to succeed. And for those who are already doing well, it will show them how they can even do better.

You should always have it at the back of your mind that wherever you are at any time, you should make the most of it and try to be the best. You can actually be the best if and when you apply yourself positively to whatever you have at hand. As the good book says, Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. If you do this, then you will not only change the way things are but will also change how things can be for you. The world belongs to the man or woman, boy or girl who is ready to do what it takes to make things happen. Do not be among the group who are wondering about what is happening; make things happen. Rediscover yourself and chart an entirely new path of success for yourself. The world of success does not belong to a selected group of people, success belongs to anyone who is willing to take responsibility for what they want. The singular difference between the student who is doing well academically and the one who is not is the point which has been highlighted in this book.

I believe that this book will not only help you succeed in your academics but will also help you discover yourself. Self-discovery is the pathway to greatness in any endeavour. It is important for you to know your strengths as well as your weaknesses and the necessary strategies you will need to enhance your strength and overcome your weaknesses.

This book will help any student who wishes to be helped in attaining greater heights in their academics, and the teacher who teaches the student. The teacher here represents anyone who has the job of tutoring students either at home or in a formal school setting. It is my humble opinion that you should read this book not just once, but many times over. As you read it again and again, you will gain the necessary wisdom vital for success. Remember that success does not belong to the hearers of the word but the doers of the word. Do not just read what is written, do what is written.

To your success!

One

Why Am I Here?

As a student, it bothered me greatly that I could not find answers to questions that were bothering my mind. Even though these questions weighed heavily on my mind, I could not find anybody to answer them for me and yet these unanswered questions determined how well I did in school. Many a time, my teachers questioned me on why it was difficult for me to learn simple things that other students were able to learn quickly. Though I was pretty bright during play time – I had the most fun catching students – in the classroom I was the dullest student. Learning time became abnightmare for me because I simply could not grab what was being taught. This situation continued all the way through to my university days. I just kept failing, particularly in my first year. Studying English language and literature, I had a very bad time retaining what was being taught. I was always daydreaming while lectures were going on or was busy doing something else. Looking back now, I have come to understand that one of the reasons I was never able to comprehend what I was being taught in school, and particularly why I was always daydreaming, was because I never knew why I was in those classrooms. Until you are able to define why you are somewhere, then you will remain aimless. Many a time, the reasons why potentially smart students are dull is because the whys of their lives remain unanswered.

HAVE A VISION

Without vision, people perish and lose their bearing. Any student who does not have a first-hand vision of why he or she is in school will have a hard time doing well in his/her academics. In trying to find out the reasons why people remain aimless, I have discovered that in the past, parents, guardians and teachers have told the students that they needed to be in school so as to get good grades in order to get better jobs. This, though partly true, is not entirely true. These students are beginning to see that just going to school no longer guarantees a good job. Maybe they have older relatives who have had good grades and are still at home and remain economic burdens to their parents. These realities are entirely different from what they are being told is the reason why they should be in school and strive to get good grades.

New challenges deserve new answers. We can no longer meet new challenges with old answers. Every student needs to have a thorough self-understanding vision of why he/she is in school to do well in our present day academic world. This reason will be a self-motivating force to plunge such a student into his/her academics and enable him/her to make something positive out of it.

WHAT IS VISION?

Vision can be defined as what you want to have before you have it; where you want to go before you go