LITERACY EDUCATION: A VERITABLE INSTRUMENT FOR NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

The nature and quality as well as rapidity of human development are dependent on the type of education offered in any nation. Literacy education empowers individual, improves livelihood and assists in reducing the problem of unemployment in the society. The individual will be properly transformed through acquisition of literacy skills and will lead to national transformation in business, commerce, industry, office and the work force. This paper therefore examined the synergy between literacy education and national transformation. Literacy education was discussed. The challenges of literacy education, national transformation, literacy education and national transformation and limitations of literacy education in transforming Nigeria were also highlighted. The paper recommends that all stakeholders in education in Nigeria should encourage literacy education through promoting primary enrolment of all children in school irrespective of the income profile of the parents to achieve national transformation.