Despite observable distortions, money-making is not at the heart of education. Among its many utilities, education services industry by producing personnel and by advances in research. Indeed, education is an investment in human capital, which, if properly husbanded, provides a granite-solid foundation for enduring development, of which industry is a critical component. In the decades since independence, education, in Edo State, has witnessed a phenomenal growth and transformation. From the primary and secondary stages, to the tertiary level, evidence abounds of this transformation.
Schools are more in number, and enrolment figures are of an exponential nature.
It is also a field in which private sector participation has been on the upswing. All of these changes have been driven by population pressures, politics, changes in socio-cultural norms, alterations in systems of economic production and invariably the demands of modernity. But the transformation has not been without its unpleasant flip. And this is a national malaise. It is scary to contemplate what the experience would be several years down the road when these ill-baked graduates take charge of critical sectors of the economy and politics.