My father adopted two boys who are about five years older than me when I was in JSS 1
He was posted to a village school as the principal and he saw that the guys wanted a good education but they wouldn’t get it in that school.
He took them out of the village and brought them home to live with us.
He placed them in Loyola College with me
They were in SS3 but after their entrance examination, they were placed in SS1

These guys were both brilliant in sciences but they had serious deficiency in the command of English.

I wrote my JSS 1 exams and submitted my script
I was extremely poor in mathematics
The teacher gave the JSS 1 script to his brilliant SS 1 students to mark

These adopted brothers saw my script and realized I was going to fail.

They came home that day and sat me down and began to teach me mathematics by fire and by force for a whole month

The teacher later saw that my mathematics script was missing

I sighed the register but he couldn’t find my script

He had to look for me and set a new exam for me

I passed!!!

The drilling of these two brothers and the fear that they would report to my father that I was unserious was enough for me!

I passed!!!!

That result and the “crime” they committed to save me from repeating stayed with me till today

You can call it whatever you want

Life is not black or white!!!