EDUCATION AND NATION BUILDING
by MICHAEL OMOLEWA
michaelomolewa@yahoo.co.uk
23 January 2016
Preamble
I have been requested to address the subject of “education and nation building”, a topic that is somewhat germane to the current period. It is also highly elastic: it may be interpreted in more than one particular way. In one interpretation, the development of education and the building of a nation run concurrently. In this approach, the expertise of the educational specialist comes to the fore, in order to explain how more idiosyncratic types of education might maximize the potential of certain groups or elements in society who may otherwise not be served. One might otherwise explore the interplay between education and nation building, or the role which education plays in business, politics, art, social engineering, national integration, and infrastructural development.
