Education is an act of developing character or mental power. To educate means to give intellectual, moral, and social instruction. The whole process of education is therefore aimed at molding individuals. The kind of mold that results is a consequence of the content of the process which in turn is determined by the preconceived aim of the system.
The aim of the Educational system in the United States of America for example is to produce individuals that will sustain their capitalistic society. Their Educational system is fashioned to produce resourceful, creative and competitively minded individuals hence it is designed with processes that ensures these outcomes. Application of knowledge is given preference over accumulation of knowledge. The former Soviet Union aimed at sustaining their communist society by imputing processes that will emphasize communalism over competition into their educational system. These are just few instances to illustrate how societies have used their educational system to mould their citizens.
What is the aim of our Educational system in Nigeria? What sort of individuals do we expect to emerge from the process; job seekers or job creators, idealistic individuals or mediocres, individuals that can productively apply knowledge for the use of the society or those that simply memorize knowledge for passing exams.

it is the poorest in the world as far as i am concerned and it will remain the poorest for ages unless the stupid so called government slots in new bloods into the education system of nigeria