Oh, Greek city used to be the city of knowledge, and just like Orunmila of the Yoruba nation, the likes of Thales, Heraclitus and other earlier thinker before Socrates, the great Philosopher came to the universal consciousness made the city tick in the comity of nations, and Aristotle of Stagira crowned the effort with superlative knowledge evolution.
At the departure of Aristotle, something big happened to the ancient Greek city of knowledge, Alexander The Great led Ronan empire to conquer the city, seized culture and civilization, introduced Roman civilization and the city of knowledge fell.
Do you know that individual city in ancient Greece had constitution of its own? Do you know that knowledge was so valuable in the old Greek cities that we had commercial thinkers who hawked knowledge? But the emergence of Roman infidels pulled the city apart, and the centre could no longer hold till today.
In protest, some people elected to be different, they chose to defy artificial life, pitching their tent with nature, they called them cynics, because they believed that only the rule of nature could give man ultimate joy; for artificial life would come with a price of troubled mind. They resisted changes, they detested luxury, and hated humanity attached to new arrival of artificial comfort, they even went to an extent of providing toothpaste for their fellow cynics in the market square. They were very unreasonable in some of their ways, and when they wanted to despise the government of Roman, they addressed themselves as universal citizen.
Having kept you abreast of the philosophy behind cynicism, as permanent protest from those who could not open their eyes to the flow of the tide, one is better understood about the strangeness of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola's school reclassification exercise in The State of Osun to the modern day cynics who parade themselves as politicians and religionists.
I have been to United Kingdom, and I found that parents will just walk to the supermarket and pick school uniform for their wards, that suggests that the uniform is the same. The same is the situation in the Republic of Benin. So, the argument against the issue of school uniform can't stand the test of logic, but cynics of Osun must protest, even if it does not make senses.
The most ridiculous aspect of it all is the religious dimension being introduced to the issue of reclassification exercise, the cynics of Osun want pupils to wear choir robe to school in order to protest against uses of hijab, some cynics also introduced costume of masquerade to select few of the compromise pupils with a view to cause confusion, insisting that the only way to solve the problem is for the governor to pronounce the proscription of hijab in Baptist High school, Iwo forgetting that the matter is in court, and justice demands that we stay quiet until the case is determined. It is unfortunate that some cynics who wear the garb of Islam are provoking the system by encouraging more pupils to wear the veil with aim of hitting the protesting against the Priest and pretender of Christendom.
Today, a governorship aspirant among others has displayed ignorance of the highest order before his hired crowd, he could not be described as cynic because his cynicism is borne out of a mind programmed to lie for cheap vote, but what obtained with him could be described as intellectual vegetable.
The perennial governorship hopeful said he was going to return schools to the mission without thinking that the mission and private schools are unaffordable for the children of the common men. How much is the tuition fee at Fountain university? How much is tuition fee at Covenant University? Who is the civil servant that can afford to send his child to Bowen university? What will happen if these missions are allowed to run elementary and high schools of their stock? These are the pertinent questions for the agitators of return the schools to the mission. They want to encourage drop outs.
It is noted that a Commission of enquiry in 1976 advised the then military government to take away mission schools, because teachers were being exploited, parents were paying through their noses, and education was not affordable. Today, the cynics want the people of Osun to return to the old path that was ditched 38 years ago, because cynics could not flow with the tide. It is a terrible drama of absurd.
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