EDUCATION AND THE FUNCTIONALITY OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA
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Education, social institutions, driving, functional performance, real and farcicalAbstract
There is no human society in contemporary globalized village without social institutions. For social institutions to function in commendable high gear, qualitative or rather functional education which is also a powerful social institution is the functional instrument that drives all other social institutions to their highest performance level. This paper is exploring situation of education in Nigeria ‘vis-à-vis’ the effective functioning of all other social institutions notes that consequent on the fact that Education, the other social institutions driving force is saddled with seeming irredeemable problems, that Education is not effectively providing the needed force to make the other litany of social institutions delivered their acclaimed dividend. Invariably, any talk about Education piloting the effective performance of all other social institutions is foul or rather farcical as the existent social institutions are also bedeviled with a bewildering array of problems that emasculate their effective goal-objects delivery. Re-thinking education for its effectiveness is the recommended panaceaDownloads
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