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EDUCATIONAL INTEGRITY

Education   comprises various methods and procedures which schools and other institutions of learning adopt in teaching students. Education has developed from the informal approach to an advanced system. Education can be categorized into formal and informal, informal education are those things which individuals imbibe from their homes and society, formal education are those things thought by teachers in class rooms. Human beings have been able to evolve from an illiterate to a preliterate to a literate society with the invention of writing.   The aim of education should be to enlighten people sufficiently so as to be able to perform their civic duties and to become better persons in the society. Unfortunately the system prevalent in Nigeria is one that oppresses and intimidates those who are meant to be taught. According to the Encarta dictionary to educate means to give knowledge to or develop the abilities of somebody by teaching, or to train somebody or improve somebody’s a