Impa Ct AND Implication of Strike in Nigeria’s Educational System

IMPACT AND IMPLICATION OF STRIKE IN NIGERIA’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Unachukwu (1989) defines education as: “The process by which individuals are assisted, formally or informally through proper direction and finance, to develop their capacities for their own benefit and that of society”. In the words of Jeffery 1946 he says education is the direct means by which a people seeks to share in its own destiny and to transform itself from what will therefore be determined by the deepest feelings of a people about itself and about its future.

From the foregoing therefore, it seen generally that the problem of education usually begins with the realization that the individual (learner) does not possess the skills and abilities which the society wishes him to have. Robert (1977) in this regards observed that: “The necessity for equipping each individual for some occupation is a fact that even the most primitive society had realized”. Therefore the education in question is not quantitative but qualitative. This is well articulated by Plato, who attested to the veracity of education thus:

                        Any human being, who enjoys a right education and a

                        happy endowment, becomes the most refined and civilized

                        (person); but he is the most savage of the product of the

                        earth if he is not educated or is inadequately and

                        improperly trained.

A truly educated person exhibits poise, self control and culture because he applied wisely the eternal standards to specific situations of which he is a master. If education in Nigeria must make a difference, adequate attention must be paid to reason. For with reason, comes understanding which in many instances bear moral traits or determination of such dispositions as attitudes, integrity and courage. According to Elliot, such traits may be associated with the imperatives which constitute intellectual conscience. But understanding which necessarily involves the exercise of physical powers is not solely an intellectual phenomenon but a composite of desire order to give experience logical structures and forms.