Old but active: Stories of septuagenarian school owners

Fowler at a younger age.
Age does not deter them from doing what they know best-teaching. These septuagenarian teachers who share their experiences with OLUNIKE ASAOLU, declare that only death can stop them from teaching.



They are old and ought to have retired from active service. But they are not tired and so they have refused to retire. Despite their age, these septuagenarian teachers cum school owners are still kicking, rendering unquantifiable service to teaching and learning in the country. The age of the school owners who are still actively contributing to the nation’s educational development ranges from 70 to 78. Their stories exemplified passion, diligence, resilience and dedication to duty. Their never-say-die-spirits have been their driving force, while the urge to mould the nation’s youths has kept on firing them to do what they love to do most teaching.

For them, retirement is a word that does not exist. Teaching they say, has remained an antidote to worry, sickness, and loneliness. That is why the likes of Chief (Mrs.) Leila Fowler, Chief Deborah Okuwoga, Chief Bolajoko Efuniyi, Chief Titilayo Ismail, Mrs. Adesola Osiyale, and Chief Christian Olaniyan have not given it a thought to retire from their professional calling of teaching and helping children to become responsible adults in future.

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