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.