The global community has come to live with the idea of formal education as a tool for political governance. With the upsurge of colonialism, the evolution of education varies from one country to another. Generally, Africans have taken little positive steps to promoting education for democratic governance as we experience slow pace of educational development due to the absence of proper enlightenment. Our aim is to analyze the concept of education and x-ray its connection to the political development of Africa. In the final analysis, we aver that while the political development of a people cannot be divorced from the nature of their educational system, our post colonial history shows that we barely remain at the level of mere speculation until our theories are responsibly put into effective use that produce results.
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Experience, Democracy, Education
| [1] | John Dewey, Problems of Men, (New York: Philosophical Library, 1946), p. 10. |
| [2] | Frederick Mayer, American Thought. An Introduction, (Iowa: WM.C. Brown Co. Pub; 1951), p. 311. |
| [3] | Ibid. p. 71. |
| [4] | John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, (London: University of London Press Limited, 1921), p.101. |
| [5] | Ibid. p. 108. |
| [6] | John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action, (New York: Minton Balch & Co; 1929), p. 267. |
| [7] | John Dewey, Democracy and Education, (USA: Unabridged Version, 2009), p. 48. |
| [8] | Ibid. pp. 83-84. |
| [9] | Sidney Hook, John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, (Westport: Greenwood Press Publishers, 1971), p. 193. |
| [10] | John Dewey, Art as Experience, (New York: Capricon Books, 1934), p. 36. |
| [11] | Elizabeth Eames, Experience and Value. Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), p. 15 |
| [12] | John Dewey, Problems of Men, p. 31. |
| [13] | Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, (London: Penguin Books, 1992), p. 116. |
| [14] | John Dewey, Democracy and Education, p. 43. |
| [15] | Ibid. p. 48. |
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