GST201 MODULE 3 65
3.4.2 The Yes Answer For
some scholars, the Nigerian educational system has been a failure. They claim that the theoretical frame under which these programmes were cultivated was perfect on paper but
the government lacked the will, the ways and the materials to see them through. At least two reasons have been put forward by them.
The Cultural Conflict According to GNU Uzoigwe (1989), one of the dominant factors that slows down the growth and productivity of the Nigerian education system is the persistent conflict between foreign intellectual traditions and the African tradition. The result is that the educated Nigerian is thrown into the morass of moral and intellectual confusion. He has neither assimilated the Christian or Islamic traditions fully nor abandoned the Nigerian varied traditions.
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