ILLITERACY IS A DISEASE BUT EDUCATION HAS FAILED MANY
Primary and secondary education is no doubt an essential level of education for all ages and it is a stage advised to never skip or allow your child or ward to skip. Facts have brought it that the standard of both primary and secondary levels determine how bright and sharp your child could become going forward.
The reason for this case study is to bring to our awareness how tertiary education could have been a waste of time and resources.
In what sense is it a waste of time? Have you seen or had a friend who studies accountancy and ends up taking up a career as a pastry chef or something otherwise? Yes, I have seen, not just one but numerous friends later settling down for something entirely from what they study.
Apart from experiencing fewer practicals and enthusiasm to pen to paper what has been learned. Strikes are inevitable during their years in school.
Using myself as a case study, I studied computer science without enough knowledge of graphics design or social media management, content creation, and even product design. It was all theory and theory.
All these skills I learned for free online and these are courses I paid hugely for in my curriculum.
Now am starting to believe it was a waste of time with the time I was learning in secondary education.
I learned content creation, graphics design, and product design all from my phone and laptop. Learning a skill is essential for our growth.
Investing a lot of energy in learning these skills has been priceless.
Those who came up with the saying ‘School na Scam’ actually understood the whole story. I wish I invested more in learning a new skill rather than going to school.
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The winners are picked by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
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Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
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