A SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The interest in the survey of educational facilities in private and public primary schools, was generated by the popular belief that there are more educational facilities in private than in public schools. Thus, parents prefer sending their children to private primary schools where they have to pay schools fees than sending their children to public primary school because they do not pay school fees. But it is necessary to understanding the concept of education before fully discussing the topic of this project. Education theorists and the philosophers attempt to define the concept of education in various ways. Adeyinka (1971) defines education as the process of transmitting the culture of a society from one generation to the other, the process of which the elder member of a society brings up the younger ones. Also, UNESCO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Classification of education defines education as comprising organized and standard communication designed to bring about learning. Education can be seen as a long life process which starts from cradle to grave; this definition implies that education starts when a child is born and goes on until death.
Adetoro (1995) also sees educational facilities as facilities or materials which are used to carryout any job or to accomplish work. Ndagi (1995) defines educational facilities as the sum total input that goes into the education system. They are the materials that are used directly or indirectly for the purpose of supporting, facilitating, influencing and encouraging the mission and acquisition of knowledge. Adolade (1986) defines educational facilities at instructional materials or aids or devices which are media order to facilitate learning in the classroom. Facilities refers to instructional materials such as objects things or instrument of analysis (concrete or non-concrete) including the teachers building which are employed as aids to understanding the content being taught.
Educational facilities are used to foster effective teaching and learning process. For proper functioning of any educational set – up, there is need for enough educational facilities in such private and public primary school.
