The best way of acquiring knowledge is by teaching – Home tutor, Galadima

“The best way of acquiring knowledge is by teaching” says Samson Simon Galadima, CEO of the firm ‘Home Teachers’. Galadima had always nursed the idea of tutoring people since his secondary school days when he had to put  his classmates and juniors through in their studies. “As the best student in my class then, my […]

“The best way of acquiring knowledge is by teaching” says Samson Simon Galadima, CEO of the firm ‘Home Teachers’.

Galadima had always nursed the idea of tutoring people since his secondary school days when he had to put  his classmates and juniors through in their studies.

“As the best student in my class then, my classmates would come to me to help them out with school work, it was from there I decided to parlay that into a profession” the Master’s Degree student of Economics, University of Abuja said.

Galadima told Youthville he has been a teacher since 2002, starting with secondary school students before progressing to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Gombe State indigene said his strengths are in the science subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, and General Mathematics.

 “I have teachers on stanfby, for subjects I don’t like teaching. We teach languages, I don’t teach French so I assign that to someone else” he said.

“Some subjects I am not strong at I get teachers that are strong at them to come and teach”, he added.

Galadima noted that teaching used to be lucrative but decried that it no longer is.

“Not any longer. Maybe it is because of the recession things are tight.”

Galadima said he supports his teaching with real estate work because of the recssion.“So I support teaching with real estate business, presently I take care of somebody’s compound, and before now the compound used to be full, it used to generate a revenue about N4million in a year now the compound is almost empty, people are not coming in and those inside are struggling to pay. So there is no money anywhere, he lamented.

The Home tutor at present has five candidates he teaches, three secondary students and two undergraduates from the University of Abuja. 

He said even if he gets a white colar job he would continue to teach “This is what I love, if I have the time I can do it for free”.

He advised youths wishing to emulate him to start from their strength even if they are not academically inclined.