Dearth of Intellectualism: Is the world getting dumber? Where are the Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton of this generation? Adebola Rayo and Nubi Kayode tried to analyse this 21st century disaster and how to deal with it.

1. Dearth of
Intellectualism
Adebola Rayo & ‘Nubi Kayode

2. One will agree that
intellectualism over the
centuries, from one
generation to another has
experienced a gradual
decline.
Nonetheless, in any society or
civilization there is always an
exemption – a constant k
that show how other things
have changed

3. Why do we experience this dearth in
intellectualism?
Is it that there is no room for further
innovation or breakthrough that will
shake or mold the world such as
Einstein’s e=mc2 or Newton’s discovery
of gravitational force?

4. Symptoms: Dearth of Intellectualism
Lack of reading culture
When last did you read a decent book
that added knowledge to you – not an
article from your iPad on the latest app
upgrade or the fastest new car in town?
Light-weight innovation
Has the internet brought about a rush for
only easy and fast path to innovation?
An information age sees everyone wanting
to be like Facebook and Google, leaving the
labs empty

5. Symptoms (Contd.)
Who are You?
We’ve got growing population of
people without a sense of history
and cultural identity
Where are you headed?
“You can’t know where you are
going if you don’t know where you
are coming from”

6. Symptoms (Contd.)
Parochial View . Linear Thinking .
Bandwagon Effect
The world is a global village and it’s easy to be
trendsetters, but then we neglect the side
effects: very narrow outlook and tendency
for easy replication, which in large scale
causes stunted development and scarcity
of innovation
Poor Work Ethic
Can this be attributed to the yearn to live life
on the fast-lane? After all life is short and
things are moving at the speed of light (or is
it sound?) Or are we just lazy and don’t want
to be as hardworking as we should be?

7. Who is Safe?
Asia has tried to be the exception:
• Retaining cultural identity –
language, dressing, cuisine, art, arc
hitecture, etc.
• Quality work ethic in all spheres
including education and industry
It is evident that the world now looks to Asia for ‘how-to’ function as a
country, community, company, institution – educational, financial, and even
governmental; as they thrive in development – economy and innovation

8. What Action Steps?
Do we go for an Asian World?
Not all countries can be like China and
other Asian countries as the system does
not work for all countries but tweaking
the variables and replicating models will
do the trick
Innovate . Evaluate . Replicate
Asia has a diverse system of operations
– from China to Korea and Singapore.
Yet all have thrived for the same
reasons.

9. Who are the players?
~ Individual ~
People have to strive to know who
they are – starting from where
they come from via history, as this
shapes the path.
~ Government ~
Investment in the area of
knowledge and capacity building.
Set policies that will reward good
work ethic and innovation
~ Industry ~
Create room for innovation based on
research and aimed at development –
without profit being the major drive

10. Dearth of Intellectualism – Adebola Rayo & Nubi Kayode
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