ANIEKE, CHRISTIAN (2016) Dusting off the Academic Tool of Mentoring in our Universities. In: On the Occasion of Sr. Dr. Adaoma's Convocation at The University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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As I reflect on the need for us scholars to dust off our tool of academic mentoring and get down to work, a lot of questions ceaselessly tug at the monastic cloak of my mind like an inquisitive child. My head turns into one big stadium full of jumping and tumbling questions of all levels of complications. How often have we scholars turned our faces into indescribably grotesque contortions and corrugations as we sit back to watch the seeming theatrical performance of the young in academia? How often have we been deeply tempted to unleash a barrage of contempt in the face of an unforgivable celebration of mediocrity and academic idiocy among the younger generation of upcoming scholars? How often have we wondered whether some of the young people around us should rather not be advised to find their vocation outside the tranquil walls of the university? It is indeed so frustrating to see aging scholars bereaved of younger successors. The thought of disappearing from the academic setting without any younger person to occupy your seat makes your eyes, ears, hands and feet sing discordant tunes. The feeling of an approaching monstrous world devoid of younger colleagues to ensure the continuity of epistemic enquires is indeed horrifying and devastating. The imagination of not finding someone to keep you abreast with the latest developments in your field when your eyes can no longer catch up with insatiable human desire to know is indeed depressing.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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| Depositing User: | miss ifeoma agbo |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2019 10:16 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Apr 2019 10:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/1100 |
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