SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISE
Use your own words to describe the historical link between education and national development of Nigeria.
3.2
Education and National Development in Nigeria
It is obvious that the type and level of education have to be inline with the needs of society. History tells us that this worldwide fact is not inline with the Nigerian situation.
SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISE
Discuss the relationship between education and national development in Nigeria.
3.2.1 Stage 1: Nigerian Education in Pre-Colonial Times In precolonial era, most Nigerian communities were small, largely rural and self- sufficient. Not only that the system of education was informal and non-literate, it was not specialized at all. Education in colonial Nigeria was nothing more than schooling. Before independence, Nigerians were schooled to accept the society designed for them by the colonialists. This seriously contradicts Jane F. Doyle’s understanding of education. According to her, education must engender in the individual a disposition of personal autonomy, responsibility and a mastery of relevant forms of life, thought and action. A good education should be free from moral indoctrination, but rich in moral training. Education indefensibly becomes indoctrination when a person is indoctrinated under the pretence of being educated (Doyle 1973).
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