By Blessing Agunloye
Looking at the concept of education, Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development.
Education has played a massive role in the nation at large.
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next. Being a major investment in human development, it plays an essential role in productivity and growth. Education has been an important sector in national development and this can never be overemphasized.
It plays a vital investment in human and economic development and is influenced by the environment within which it exists.
Looking at the world of today, we have great innovations and creativity, this is as a result of education. Education contributes to national development in numerous ways which includes:
Development Of Talents And Virtues: As a result of education, we have a generation of awakened minds, the right knowledge, and skills.
Development Of Sound Human Resource: The manpower needs to be elevated by, means of the development of skills, knowledge, and training. Therefore, traditional knowledge is not required but the need of the hour is the introduction of scientific and technological knowledge. As such, a sound base of human resources is the foundation of economic growth and national development.
Development Of Individual Personality:
Education aims at the all-around development of individual personality in all its manifestations— physical, mental, social, emotional, moral, spiritual, and aesthetic. Without the development of the individual, national development cannot be possible.
Development of individual includes certain qualities— development of self-confidence, generation of scientific temper, attainment of self-sufficiency, sense of devotion to duty, discipline and decency, sense of dedication, promotion of social and ethical values, fostering a positive attitude towards unity and integrity of the nation, and cultivation of social efficiency.
Education has greatly contributed to national development by unfolding the latent powers of talents to harness the process of national development.
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