The Impact of Education on National Development in Nigeria

Abstract

Education is a crucial sector in any nation. Being a major investment in human capital development, it plays a critical role in long-term productivity and growth at both micro and macro levels. The implication is that poor quality of education has far reaching negative impact on a nation’s moral, civic, cultural and economic sustainability. The present paper deals with the impact of education on national development in Nigeria. It uses the method of hermeneutics. The work focuses on the intricate connection between education and national development in the context of the Nigeria labouring under seeming intractable underdevelopment. It discusses this in terms of socio-economic, cultural, moral spheres as it evaluates the situation of educational development. It then proffers genuine and workable solutions for engineering and revamping the Nigeria’s educational sector so as to set properly the national development trajectory for tremendous outcome.