As soon as he reached school age, he attended an elementary  school in Ijebu-Ode until 1919 when he was transferred to Ogbogbo  Baptist School. He was very brilliant and his father had an ambitious plan  for him. 

Consequently, after his elementary school, he gained admission  into Form One in Baptist Academy Secondary School, Ogbomoso, Oyo  State, in 1927, with the hope that after the secondary school course he  would enrol on a course at Baptist Theological Seminary in the same town  and become a missionary later, according to his father's plan. In those  days, he had to walk from Ijebu-Ode to Ogbomoso and this he did in the  company of some elderly people because he was only 14 years old. 

After a year in secondary school, an uncle came to talk Timothy  into becoming an engineer in Lagos. Timothy could not resist what the  future promised. Instead of going to Ogbomoso to continue his studies, he  followed his uncle to Lagos. Rather than the rosy promise being fulfilled,  he was greatly disappointed. There was no hope of schooling again.  Timothy returned to Ijebu-Ode dejected, frustrated and thoroughly  miserable. He was not received at home either, because he had  disappointed his father.