education
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Reforming Nigeria’s Education System: Beyond Certificates Toward Critical Thinking and Civic Responsibility
Abstract Nigeria’s education system has long prioritised certificate acquisition over intellectual development. Students are rewarded for memorisation, regurgitation of lecture notes, and examination performance, while deeper cognitive skills such as critical thinking, conceptual reasoning, and ethical judgment remain underdeveloped. This has produced a generation of graduates who may read and write but lack the intellectual… Continue reading
