Importance Of Civic Education

The future of Nigeria  depends on the youths in country. No meaningful development can take place without their active participation. They are the young and endowed with raw energy. They have high hopes, dreams, aspirations and ideas of what their tomorrow would be. They are anxious and dynamic, always bubbling in spirit. Their surplus energy when exploited is useful for the welfare of the country. Proper guidance and direction can bring them in the forefront of peaceful and national development.

Nigerian youths have played critical roles in the fields of information technology, business, agriculture, industry and many more.

However, the recent violent, criminal and other anti-social activities around the country perpetrated by the youth, indicate that more efforts have to be made towards channelling the power and natural endowment of the young ones into better use both for themselves and the nation.

One viable way of achieving this is through civic education which inculcates sound moral values in the youths. It is the education which aims to help people learn how to become active, informed and responsible citizens. Civic education remains an important means of teaching the populace about individual rights and what duties and responsibilities the   leaders and the ledhave.

The British colonialists recognised that the noble values of honesty, obedience, hard work, tolerance and faith are germane to stabilising national life and upheld same for determining the development and progress of a nation. Such values regulate the life of a nation and project good image for the country.

They, therefore, introduced civic education to teach citizens the virtues of good citizenships, particularly, the values of obedience, humility and submission to constituted authority.

Source:  thetidenewsonline.com