Reflecting on the Past, Understanding the Present and Envisioning the Future in the Education Industry

History is to a nation what memory is to an individual. A nation without a knowledge of its past will not only suffer from collective amnesia but will also grope blindly into the future without any guidepost of precedent to shape its course. Adequate knowledge of the past is a ‘ sine qua non’ in understanding the present and projecting into the future. The greatness of any nation is tied to the nature and quality of its educational system, hence, there is always the need to periodically and critically assess how well such a system is meeting the goals, yearnings, needs and aspirations of any nation that wants to be great and be counted among the comity of developed nations. The conclusion is that our education system is characterized by“Growth without Development”. There is quantitative growth and qualitative decline. Specifically, we need to adopt an educational policy of “Developmentalism” which, according to the late Awokoya and Fafunwa, has embedded in it the basic ingredients of Technopolitics, Technolysis, Technogenesis, Absence of Technomanagement, and Technocracy.