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I have always wanted to be a teacher. I was not interested in money or cars. I was only interested in teaching and training the young ones.

— Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker

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I am not really sure about the word decline, because there are areas in which education has improved.

Most reprehensible is parental neglect, self-centered parents being interested only in freedom to enjoy themselves.

Desirest thou the teacher's work? Ask wisdom from above. It is a work of toil and care Of patience and of love.

I condemn society's charge of delinquency against them as gross injustice. Nigerian youths are what adults have made them.

Your pupils appreciate you, not when you are training and correcting them, but when they are older and understand better. They will then know that you were acting in their best interest.

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