Over the past centuries, education has been a means of transmitting our culture from one generation to another, it has been a medium through which newborns acquire a sense of belonging in a particular culture, it is the process of bringing about a relatively permanent change in human behavior.

Indigenous education is the ability of a newborn to know the norms of the society which he was born into and the willingness to acquire such norms as away of life.

As the oldest industry, it the instrument used by society to preserve, maintain and upgrade its social equilibrium. A society’s future depends largely on the quality of its citizen’s education.

Education has been view to extent to which an individual can stretch his intellectual by learning the culture of his society.

In all human societies, education is meant to pass on to the new generation the existing knowledge of their physical environment, to introduce individuals to the organization of the society, given them skills for performing their daily jobs and enjoying their leisure, as well as inculcate sound morals in them for their own benefit and that of the society.


In oger words, education is a process by which the society assists the younger generation to understand the heritage of their past, participate productively in the society of the present as well as contributing to the future. Based on these reasons, education draws inspiration and nourishment from a society, but in turn contributes to the growth, renewal an d development of the society at large.
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