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Assessing Investment Of Lagos In Education
T
he South African legend, Nelson Mandela, who just
passed on, once described education as the 'greatest
engine for personal development through which the
daughter of a peasant can become a doctor while the son of a
mineworker can become the head of a mine and a child of a
farm-worker can become the president of a great nation'.
The importance of education to any society cannot be
overemphasized. Education has been part of the human society
from the very beginning and human societies throughout the
ages have had vested interests in education. In fact it would not
be an exaggeration to say that without education, in this modern