Education in abroad sense is a process by which in individual acquires the many physical and social capabilities demanded by the society in which he /she is born into function . in an ideal sense, education is an ultimate value and hence , through the provision of social service, it is an agent of change. It is to a nation what the mind is to the body, just as a diseased mind is handicapped in the coordination and direction of the bodily activities. Therefore, the single most significant complex of social control tools for nation development is found in the
educational system be it formal or informal.
Development on the other hand, is a progressive unfolding of the potentialities of a given reality. As it applies to human, it is the integration of the various giving’s, natural, physical, acquired an human of a people towards the full working out, permanently and cumulatively of their being persons of their nation and their real productivity
The essence of education whether formal or informal is to produce a person who will be a useful member of a society. According to Jane F Dogle, it must engender in the individual a disposition of personal autonomy reasonability and relevant forms of life though and action.
As if that was not enough, leaders also succumbed to their idea that all locally produced goods should be exported to their country to be turned into finished goods meanwhile this finished were imported back to Nigeria , sold to us at an exorbitant prices the money gotten been used for the development of their country . The painful aspect is that our leaders has still not learnt lessons from their past mistake.
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