Greetings! It's interesting to hear about your experiences and the valuable advice you received. Here's a corrected version of your text:
One enduring truth that will remain valid until the end of the world is the understanding that elderly/experienced people know better than us.
"What an elder sees while sitting down, a child, even if he climbs the tallest tree, cannot see it." This phrase may seem old-fashioned, but the deep truth still lies in it. It's good to take advice, especially from people who have gone ahead of us. It's not necessarily people who are older than us; any experienced person is good to get advice from.
In the few years I've lived on this earth, I've not received many pieces of advice from people, especially elderly/serious people because I find it hard to be strict with life. Let me share the few ones I had:
Advice from a lecturer:
I'm among those who don't make friends with lecturers. I never got close to any lecturer throughout my school days, even the ones who knew me in church that wanted to make me their "boy"; I never gave any room for that.
There was a particular lecturer who took us a borrowed course that appeared to be the most difficult course, and that's due to how he taught it. He made it so tough so that we could go and sort out the course with money. He's very influential and boasts about how students can't pass his course without sorting him. The school management knew, but there's nothing they could do because he's bigger than them.
On his exam day, the questions were not surprising; they came as tough as expected, and 98% of the class didn't bother to write; they only wrote their names and submitted because they would sort it out later. The few of us that stood against it wrote our best, and when the result came out, the best was very far from merit...he gave us carryover. My very first and only carryover in school.
How do I do it?
How do I sort it out without paying a dime?
Still, I wasn't ready to pay for it. I was a very churchy person then, and during one of the church activities, I was merged with one of the lecturers in our church to go for morning evangelism. Along the line, we got talking, and I opened up to him on what I was going through. I begged him to help me sort out my carryover course with the lecturer because they know each other.
Oh yeah, he agreed and went further to give me advice that, till today, I hold dearly to my heart.
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"There's no exam a student cannot pass. All the student needs is a cheat code." He said to me
"What's the cheat code?" I asked.
"No matter how tough and confusing the exam question is, the lecturer picked either the whole question or the idea from somewhere. If a student can track down those materials that the lecturer uses, it's a done deal. Yes, using past questions as a study guide for exam is good but a smart students need to go deeper into the materials that the lecturer uses. It maybe textbooks or internet"
The words sank into the deepest part of my brain. I saw it clearly; it's very true; all the questions were taken from somewhere.
Ever since that day, I took it upon myself to digress in my studies whenever it's exam time because our school system settles on exams.
Even when I was out of school, the exams I did afterward were easy peasy.
I can't see myself failing any exams for now unless I didn't have time to do my research.
For my carryover course, nothing was done. I still didn't pay a dime, and it was waved off in my graduation year because it's the only carryover I had throughout my years in school.
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