THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
The fact that education is imperative to national development cannot be over-emphasized. No nation can develop without education In fact, education always engineers development of nations. Industrialized or developed countries of the world like Japan. the United States of America and Britain achieved rapid development because of their exposure to education, especially scientific education
Modern days inventions especially in the area of technology can not be achieved without education. Technological inventions like aeroplanes, ships, electricity and numerous electronic gadgets that make lives easy for people in the world today could not be accomplished without education. These inventions are nothing but scientific accomplishments which are engendered by scientific researchers. These inventions contribute in no small measure to the development of nations where they are made.
Apart from this, improvements in the area of medicine and communication come about as a result of education. Nowadays, it is easy to communicate with people across the world. The world is now a global village with the invention of various communication gadgets and the internet. The use of social media could not have been possible without education. The invention of these communication gadgets like mobile phones and the internet makes it easy for the nations that invent them to earn enormous foreign exchange which is used for the development of such nations. The invention of computers through educational research enables countries with such inventions to sell than to developing nations of the world to earn foreign exchange. The resources obtained from the wealth made are used for national development. In the same ways, developing nations buy vaccines to communication and other purposes from nations that produce them thereby developing such nations through wealth generated from such sale.
In fact, achievements recorded in any nation can not be separated from educational development of such nation. This is the reason why any nation which wishes to develop must adequately structure and fund the education of its people. Tremendous improvement in agriculture could not have been possible without education. Education has been able to move agriculture from its primitive stage to modernity. The contribution of modern facilities like tractors, harvesters, mowers to agriculture could not have been possible without technological education. To say the obvious, these agricultural apparatus are invention of technology which is the result of education. Countries which invent these modern agricultural tools sell them to developing nations and through this. they earn wealth which is used for national developments. Apart, from this these countries are able to feed their citizens.
Undoubtedly. education is important to national development as nations which neglect the education of their citizens can never witness both economic and social development. Technology development that bring about national development cannot be accomplished in countries where people are wallowing in ignorance.
Helen Enyia.
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