At book launch: Stakeholders deliberate on need to revamp public education

The exhibition that proclaimed the festival of 100 years of Ondo Boys High School appeared to be honorable, and an indication of extraordinary accomplishment. Be that as it may, past understudies and visitors at the event of the open introduction of the book titled: One Century of Ondo Boys' High School: The History of Nigeria's First Community High School, really wanted to regret over the woeful condition of training now. This is as they think back past times worth remembering of value instruction drained of religious and ethnocentric colouration. *Prof. Ropo Sekoni, second right, and visitors at the open introduction of One Century of Ondo Boys' High School:The History of Nigeria's First Community High School, at NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos. At the official dispatch as of late in Lagos, the book, a 174-page gleaming abstract wrote by the trio of Prof. Ropo Sekoni(1962 set), a resigned Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Lincoln University, USA, and feature writer of The Nation Newspapers, Prof. Festus Adesanoye (1963 set) and Dr Orobola Fasehun(1964 set) and foreword by Amb. Tayo Ogunsulire, set of 1947 who served as the Chairman of the event; accounts the history, advancement, difficulties and milestone accomplishments of previous understudies of the school. Prof. Sekoni in his discourse titled: Rebooting auxiliary training: exercises from history of Ondo Boys' High School, stated: "A large portion of the qualities significant to the advancement of instruction 100 years back in Ondo and other Nigerian people group don't appear to exist today. These qualities incorporate pledge to obtaining of new information to manage new reality; to responsibility to libertarianism or guaranteeing that individuals appreciate similar outcomes or results, i.e arrangement of equity of chances and value or reasonableness to all; to distraction of suppliers of training with certainty of satisfactory foundation to address the issues of instructors and students; to duty of value confirmation or exclusive expectations: and confidence in the positive effect of nearby administration of training to inspiration of educators, staff and understudies concerning supporting benchmarks of instruction." Tracing the coming up short standard of instruction to the suggestion of free auxiliary training by the legislature in 1979 and the prior presentation of free essential training, the Professor of notoriety noticed that "The well meaning plans behind presentation of free optional training changed the scene of optional or pre-tertiary training for better and for most exceedingly bad in Ondo as well as in different pieces of the locale. " OBHS which had an aggregate of 350 understudies in high and higher school declaration programs all of a sudden developed in 1980 to 600 understudies, later to 1000 understudies during the 1990s, and to more than 2000 out of 2018. The space accessible on the grounds continued as before as it was during the 1950s when the most noteworthy number of understudies was 300. Furthermore, hard and delicate foundation for educating and learning continued as before, Prof. Sekoni deplored. Taking note of the ramifications of this, he included that, "Over the most recent 30 years, progressively tuition based schools have developed to retain understudies and understudies whose guardians could bear the cost of charge paying essential and auxiliary schools, dissimilar to the free state funded training accessible to their partners in Asia, Europe and the Americas. " The jury is still out about how great the nature of training got in worked revenue driven essential and optional schools in the nation is. What is clear is that kids who are constrained to government funded schools like OBHS are never again as aggressive as their partners 40 years prior." Suggesting ways forward for the patching up of optional instruction, yet in addition essential training, the Chairman, Board of Directors, Wole Soyinka Center for Investigation Journalism, WSCIJ expressed that the end result for OBHS and numerous different schools in the nation proposes that insufficient duty is given to state funded instruction that can advance liberated access, applicable educational programs, world class nature of instructing and neighborhood the board of school in the nation. " To make offspring of the cutting edge aggressive in an undeniably perplexing and information driven world, the historical backdrop of its first century represents that present format for open essential and auxiliary training need to acquire from worldwide practices which incorporate free instruction with elevated expectations for all natives of school age, with exceptional educating and learning devices and qualified instructors. "Also, if all aspects of the alliance can give free and obligatory pre-tertiary government funded training, invested with helpful foundation, present day instructing and learning devices; qualified instructors; scholastic quality and job for nearby administration of schools, we will have rebooted the nation's instruction.