POLITICIZING THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY.

Education is the backbone of every society.The level of development in a nation is determined by the literacy level of the citizens of that country.For there to be educational development in a country,the government of that country has to invest more in the education industry.Any nation that neglects this will have its education industry be in shambles.Little or lack of technical and managerial know-how can mar the development of a nation thereby rendering such a nation dependent.It breeds immaturity as regards the growth and development of a nation.
Nowadays what is common in the modern day less developed countries of the world is the incessant politicization of the issues in the education industry.This results in the abnormal inserting of a square peg in a round hole and vise-versa.What do I meant by this?
To throw more light on this subject, I would like to cite the observation I made in a typical less developed country in Africa.Cases exist where scholarship which is meant for the extraordinary students in a high school who has performed marvelously well is awarded to dummies.These dummies are trained at the expense of the well to do as long as education is concerned.What comes thereafter is failure or disappointment.If success could occur,it would only be the emergence of half baked technocrats.And from there quackery is tolerated.This is a wastage of resources.What is the major cause of this?It is all political.Just because one belongs to a certain geopolitical zone in the country that is why he or she is denied what accrues to him or her.This does not do any nation any good.People who are supposed to uplift the image of the country after training are denied the opportunity of contributing their own quota to the development of the country.How can such a country move forward when all they know is how to turn things upside down?
Imagine a country whose annual budget maps out less than 20% of her budget to the development regardless of the whooping amount of revenue she derives from her domestic and foreign earnings.How can one expect development to be at their doorsteps.It's almost impossible and of course quite appalling.To politicize the education industry cannot do any country any good rather it retards the velocity at which the country is developing.It is better checkmated before it gets out of hand.