Parents should allow children study courses of their passion - VP

Vice-Principal, Corona Secondary School,
Mr. Paul Oba has
urged parents to allow their children study
whatever course
they are good at, nothing that success in
does not only
depend on your discipline but on what you
have passion in.
He stated this during Corona Secondary
School’s three days
Art Exhibition held at Gbagada branch of the
school to mark
the school 60th anniversary.
He urged parents to let go of their child who
have talents in
art. Records abound out there about people
who went
through education to do what their parents
want them do. At
the end of the day, they still came back to
what they have
passion for. People are earning their
livelihood on things
they take as hobby. Oba said: “It is not about
forcing the
child to do what you want, if you do, the child
will not be
happy. Some people who obeyed their
parents doing what
they want, ended up dropping it for what they
love. We have
a lot of parents in our school who came to us
to say, “I went
through this and I don’t want my children to
go through
that.”
Lamenting the erosion of Art in Nigeria, Oba
noted that Art is
more visible in music than it is in art. In
Nigeria today,
people are beginning to appreciate art.
People are beginning
to let their children study art, which was not
so in the time
past. Telling your parents that you are going
to study art is
not what is easy to do. But we have many
more people
doing that today. That we could get so many
things from our
learners is evidence that parents are letting
go the students.
There are many who studied art and are
earning their
livelihood through art.
I major in art. Honestly it is not about ability,
because every
human being has a talent. I am not going to
tell a child who
show interest in art not to toll that way. I will
ask him to go
ahead if he has the talent and passion for
art. Speaking in
same vein, Mrs Yanju Olowodola, an alumnus
whose
children are also in Corona said that the
world is innovative
and dynamic such that you can excel in
whatever thing you
do.
According to her, you can do different things
to make you
excel. “Academic education is the foundation
for success.
However, if you are gifted in any area, work
to develop
those gifts. I know the faces of some who is
who in Nigeria,
not because of their education, but because
of their talents.
You can go places with your skills,” she
added.
Meanwhile, Oba went further to explain that
the art
exhibition held in Corona School Gbagada is a
collections of
works from all branches at Gbagada, Apapa,
Victoria Island,
Lekki, Ikoyi and Agbara. He said exhibition of
art is about
celebration of talents, adding that they are
celebrating the
talents that Corona has brought forth over the
years. His
words: “We have some art here that are more
than fifteen
years. What we have here today are just
selections of works.
Our primary schools and secondary school
celebrate art
yearly because of its importance, however,
this is the first
time all our schools are coming together for
art exhibition to
mark its 60th anniversary.