JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
EDUCATION CRISES IN NIGERIA: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL
DR. Joseph Olusola ADELEYE & Kehinde Oluwaseun BAMIKOLE
Abstract
Philosophy and Education can be construed as inseparable entities because both penetrate all aspects to search for wisdom and understanding of events in the universe. Philosophy and Education ought to be instruments that will develop morally responsible individuals in the society. Nevertheless, one can observe that the society we live presently is full of crises in which the education system is not exempted. The crises faced by the education institutions in Nigeria are not different from those faced by the society at large and one can attribute this to the abuse of freedom and irresponsible behaviour of the stake holders. If one is to accept the postulation of Pythagoras that man is the measure of all things then one is equally right to rationalise that man is the architect of the crises in Nigeria educational system. It is on this note that the paper tries to give philosophical appraisal of educational crises in Nigeria by looking into what education is and what education is not. Through the philosophical method of analysis, the paper also rationalises different crises in Nigeria education and educational institutions.
Keywords: Philosophy, Educational Crises, Freedom, Responsibility and Society