Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has advised the Federal Government to listen to those advocating the restructuring of the education system in the country.
Aregbesola said this in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Wednesday while delivering a lecture titled ‘Education as a panacea to national insecurity and developmental challenges’,?? at the 6th Prince Bola Ajibola annual lecture series.
The lecture was organised by the Magna Curia chambers of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He said education was very critical to the realisation of sustainable national development and the achievement of national security.
According to him, proper education which will free the mind of humans will eventually assist the nation to get out of the problem of insecurity.
The governor noted that?? any society, which wanted to achieve enduring progress must give priority to education. He held that for Nigeria to develop human capacity for the kind of productivity that will impact national socio-economic development, the path to follow was the education track.
He said, “Even in the South West, where we used to have a 50 years education head start, it is no longer a bed of roses. “The Nigerian leadership must heed and lead the response to the voices urging restructuring of the country’s educational system.
“In engaging with the issue of education as a remedy for national insecurity and developmental challenges, I wish to contend that a conception of education as a process rather than as a tool will do us a whole world of good.
“To conceive education as an instrument meant to be deployed in achieving certain practical ends is to conclude that education is all about physical development of people. ?
“Sadly, the Nigerian state today is assailed by manifold layers of insecurity and its progress is hampered by a myriad of developmental challenges all because of the continual erosion in the quality and standard of its educational system.””He has been able to link politicking and the business of caring for the well-being of his people successfully, which is very uncommon among our politicians of today.”
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