There are various diseases in the world today, which include the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Cancer, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Poliomyelitis, Smallpox, Measles and others. The diseases are known by the damages they inflict on their victims. They are also curable using relevant drugs and injection. There is however a common disease, whose symptoms are different from the normal diseases, which is ‘ignorance'. An ignorant individual usually suffers low reasoning power, inability to differentiate what is good from what is bad, low social interaction, low emotion, and low psychological feelings among others. Education is however the only antidote to ‘Ignorance'.
[...] For example, political science is offered as a course at the university level. Students are taught this course and made to carry out researchers on aspects of it at the end of their career. Through this, the political ideologies/theories are exposed to more generations. Education and Cultural Development Education plays impact on the cultural development of a nation. It helps in developing or modifying the existing cultural values through the creativity of products of the educational system. It also helps in transmitting cultural values from one generation to the next. [...]
[...] Summary and Conclusion The role of education in national development cannot be overemphasized. In both the economic, political, cultural, scientific and technological as well as social aspects, education plays significant roles. In view of the roles of education in national development therefore, it behooves on government of countries in the world to provide education for enviable development to be achieved. References Achimugu, L (2000).The Agonies of Nigerian Teachers. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Baron Press Limited Eduese, E.D (1996) Teachers: The Issue of Quality, Quantity and Cost in Nigerian Secondary Schools. [...]
[...] Since individuals make a nation, education has impacts in the development of a nation. The role of education in national development can be better captured in terms of social, political, economic, cultural and technological development in a nation. Education and Political Development Education influences politics and thus the political development of a nation. It helps in training the people involved in politics towards ensuring effective governance. The political leaders in any nation are products of educational system, having attended one or more educational institution at one time or the other. [...]
[...] Many theoretical and empirical evidences have confirmed the role of education in economic development. For example, it has been found that increasing the age of a labour force by a year, particularly above the minimum of four years of primary schooling raises national income by nine percent (World Development Report, 1991). It has been further reported that four years of education, as opposed to none can increase agricultural production by ten percent (Fagerlind & Saha; 1989). According to World Bank (1980), a rise of one percent in literacy correlates with a gain of two years in life expectancy. [...]
[...] Concept of National Development According to Achimugu (2000), National development is extent to which a nation is able to overcome her complex socio economic, political and cultural issues to ensure progressive change in the quality of lifes of her citizens'. It therefore implies that national development embraces several elements including social, economic, political, technological and cultural among other changes in a nation over a period. There is economic development when there is increase in productivity and wealth of a nation, (which can be measured by increase in Gross National Product), increase in industrialization, food production, and employment generation, low cost of living and high living standard of the citizens, low inflation rate, availability of qualified manpower among other indicators. [...]
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