Right from the outset, we must recognise that a traditional strength of the university culture is its, in Watson’s apt words, ‘resis­tance to simplistic descriptive slogans for major social, political and economic move­ments’. In a normal setting, the university should be at the heart of, and integral to, the very process of fashioning and analyz­ing those concepts. Lord Fulton (quoted by Ojetunji Abayode; 1982, 2) reflected on the critical nature of the university community anywhere in the world, stating clearly that universities must mediate between genera­tions. More pointedly, he contended that ‘a university which is not at least twenty five years ahead in its thinking and programmes is already behind the times.’ Professor Ad­ekoya, linked the fate of the Nigerian edu­cational system with that of national devel­opment. Aboyade (1982, 2) paraphrased his proposition thus: the real challenge facing the Nigerian educational system was how to feed properly some one hundred and forty million people, give them the shelter they need and provide them with the health they require without the nation continuing to be technologically depended READ MORE @ http://www.ladieswinds.com/2014/09/education-nigeria-in-knowledge-economy.html