I was doing poorly in class until…— Afe Babalola

January 23, 2024

The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), stated that he was doing poorly in class until a trained teacher who had studied psychology in children chose to help him out.

In a viral video, Afe Babalola stated this in an interview with storytellermedia, titled, ‘ The journey of success @ 94’.

In the interview, Babalola narrated how he didn’t like school at first, as he preferred working on farm to schooling, as school rules were not encouraging. Thereby making him lose concentration in school.

He said, “It was an accident that my father met a catechist who persuaded him to send one of his children to school.”

“And I didn’t like going to school, I ran back, what a punishment. You cut your nails, you must not be late, why?

“When life was so easy on the farm, when you cut down a whole banana, take only two and leave the rest there.

“I was doing poorly in class until a trained teacher from St. Andrew College, where he had learnt psychology of children, found that some of us who were not concentrating because our minds were elsewhere, chose me as one of those, and at the end of the year, instead of coming up with 21 out of 25, I came up within unit.

“That was the beginning of a change in my life. By the time we finished, I was number one in the whole school, and that encouraged me to study at home through private studies. Through all my degrees, from school SAT, BSC part 1…”