Thread by @taadelodun

My Father had a vision, but my mum backed it and enforced it. Iya Wale is a disciplinarian. No nonsense mother. She is fierce, tall, and beautiful. Despite how bad we were suffering, people will see mummy and ask her what cream she is using. Na adi agbon we dey use. She has no

money for make-up, just small powder, and she is ready. All around ilupeju, if any child is out of control, they will take him/her to Iya Wale. Ara a bale (he/she will learn). We did not have a television in the house for years because we couldn't afford it. Uncle Ganiyu Gilo

(very popular in ilupeju) may his soul rest in peace; got us a second-hand one at a meager price. Even at that, my mum doesn't want us watching it for too long. If she steps into the room and sees you watching TV. Her first questions are, have you done this, this, this,

your homework. How come you think you can watch tv. Oya pa telivision yen. Iya wale lesson was famous in Ilupeju. People came from far and wide. She used all the books I used in primary school to teach other kids. My siblings, Muhammed, Iyabo and Adeola ,

were homeschooled for primary school, using my books. Iya Wale is a force of nature. Foundation is critical in Education. Children are inquisitive and want to know everything. Technology has made things very easy now. I will always recommend the khan academy youtube channel.

It is free. It can teach from fractions to Calculus, code.org as well. . It can teach your kids how to code for free. If you can afford it, try the @ulesson app. Most time, money is always the limiting factor in education.

Our politicians and Elite push their kids to go to Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford, where they have the potential to make the best contacts in the world. The inequality keeps widening. Lots of Iya Wale's students came good. There is one that blew me away.

Abdul Wasiu Isiaq. His mum was a fashion designer in Shyllon/Oke Arin. His mum said I want Wasiu to be like Wale. Even when he left primary school and beyond my mum's teaching, his mum will still send him to us, he will mark students' assignments,and hang around with us.

He stayed around till I left Nigeria. Wasiu went to Unilag and had a First Class in Economics, and today he works for an international accounting & consulting firm. Please let us focus on child education. The internet has made things easier. Knowledge is still POWER.

Try and read the profile of Jeff Bezos, he made his grandmother cry, in his words, "My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.

At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic.I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on.

When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!I have a vivid memory of what happened,

and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying,

my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow.

My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, 'Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.'

Most of these kids are very smart. Let us nurture them. The story continues. I am still thinking of the title

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