Nigeria in a Knowledge Century:-
Our world is changing rapidly. Across the globe, many events, including the election of Barack Obama as American president, point to a world where nations are looking for fresh ideas to overcome severe economic crises and survive the onslaught of global competition driven by the advent of information and communication technologies. The evolution of knowledge workers (or brain workers) is changing many national policies, as countries device strategies to manage the impacts of globalization by developing infrastructures on education, industry, health and energy. It is a new world where nations that fail to develop or learn, acquire and adapt technologies will remain poor. The emergence of China, and the continuous threats to many established industries by new ones, enabled primarily by brainpower, are showing that this is a 'knowledge century'.
Knowledge will rule modern man and this knowledge is new, fresh and combative. Since Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', there has never been a more urgent time in the history of man where innovative economic and political leadership is required of leaders. The reason is simple; globalization makes it difficult to control factors like trade and labour, which hitherto, could be easily controlled to the advantages of nations.
From American Wall Street to Nigerian Broad Street, leaders have come to realize that new ideas are needed because many old economics are falling. New ideas that accommodate emerging variants that technology has enabled in both the political and economic national models. Models based on the theme that every nation has a limit to national wealth without science and technology. It is an understanding that the era where natural resources dominate international trade is giving way to that of knowledge resources. Natural resources are still important, but unfortunately, the most stable and prosperous nations are those that create ideas with army of knowledge workers.
A vision of new Nigeria is very important for the future of our nation. Our educational system needs immediate improvement. The advancement of any modern superpower has been fuelled by its educational infrastructures. And the collapse of any great nation has always been preceded by the decay in its education. The old Greece was known for its fine philosophers, the Babylon known for its wisdom and the old Egypt, where civilization began was known for its knowledge. In its age, Egypt was admired for knowledge as the land of pharaoh had some of the best thinkers. Moses of the Bible was highly respected partially because of his Egyptian education, which was better than his Israelite's comrades. During the British industrial revolution, their education was the best, as no school on earth could be compared to Oxford and Cambridge. Today's dominance of the United States is attributed to its education, which remains its best industry, at least at the university level. The schools drive the researches that translate to new technologies, which subsequently diffuse into the economy. America has the finest labs in the world and continues to dominate the roll call of Nobel laureates. It is believed that if America looses its educational superiority, it would loose its dominance in the world's political and economic scenes.
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Knowledge will rule modern man and this knowledge is new, fresh and combative. Since Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', there has never been a more urgent time in the history of man where innovative economic and political leadership is required of leaders. The reason is simple; globalization makes it difficult to control factors like trade and labour, which hitherto, could be easily controlled to the advantages of nations.
From American Wall Street to Nigerian Broad Street, leaders have come to realize that new ideas are needed because many old economics are falling. New ideas that accommodate emerging variants that technology has enabled in both the political and economic national models. Models based on the theme that every nation has a limit to national wealth without science and technology. It is an understanding that the era where natural resources dominate international trade is giving way to that of knowledge resources. Natural resources are still important, but unfortunately, the most stable and prosperous nations are those that create ideas with army of knowledge workers.
A vision of new Nigeria is very important for the future of our nation. Our educational system needs immediate improvement. The advancement of any modern superpower has been fuelled by its educational infrastructures. And the collapse of any great nation has always been preceded by the decay in its education. The old Greece was known for its fine philosophers, the Babylon known for its wisdom and the old Egypt, where civilization began was known for its knowledge. In its age, Egypt was admired for knowledge as the land of pharaoh had some of the best thinkers. Moses of the Bible was highly respected partially because of his Egyptian education, which was better than his Israelite's comrades. During the British industrial revolution, their education was the best, as no school on earth could be compared to Oxford and Cambridge. Today's dominance of the United States is attributed to its education, which remains its best industry, at least at the university level. The schools drive the researches that translate to new technologies, which subsequently diffuse into the economy. America has the finest labs in the world and continues to dominate the roll call of Nobel laureates. It is believed that if America looses its educational superiority, it would loose its dominance in the world's political and economic scenes.
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