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A former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has lamented the decay in the education sector, insisting that no political party in the country has a framework for education.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance leader said this at the 2014 Founders Day Lecture which was held in commemoration of the 105th anniversary of Kings College in Lagos on Thursday.

He said, Today, I do not think any party in Nigeria has a vision about education; that is the truth. I am a politician and I belong to a political party but I can tell you that there is none that has a plan and I can back this up with the statistics of the result of WASSCE (West African Senior School Certificate Examination).

When Tony Blair (ex-United Kingdom Prime Minister) was campaigning, he emphasised education and when he got there, he dealt squarely with the issue of education. Here we promise one thing when we are campaigning but deliver another thing when we are in office.

The former governor added that one of the reasons why Nigerias standard of education was low was not because of lack of funds but the governments inability to effectively monitor the usage of funds which goes into the pockets of third parties instead of the schools that need them.

He boasted that he discontinued the trend in Anambra State and the state came first in WASSCE nationwide.

In Nigeria, all we talk about is minimum wage and not minimum productivity. People are paid better here than in Ghana and other countries and yet they produce more. In Anambra we did not increase funds but only increased the monitoring. The money went where we wanted it to go, he said.

At the event themed, Vision for Education in Nigeria, the chairmen of both the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party were supposed to speak on the vision of their respective parties in the area of education.

While the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was represented by a former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Segun Oni; the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Muazu, did not attend and sent no representative.

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Teaching moral development is a process, the lessons more complex as the child grows up. "You can teach the little ones right and wrong pretty easily. As they get older, the areas of gray become more complex. We believe that besides being intentional, it needs to be systematic," said Sipos of her organization, a national nonprofit that works primarily with schools on character education.

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While parents take seriously the task of teaching children values, a new Pew Research Center survey released Thursday shows a gulf between how conservatives and liberals, women and men, young and old and different races order the values they believe children should be taught.

The report, "Teaching the Children: Sharp Ideological Differences, Some Common Ground," looked at 12 different qualities parents might try to inculcate in children. It found chasms between liberals and conservatives, but also near universal agreement despite ideological differences.

"We found a remarkable amount of consensus about certain traits responsibility, hard work, helping others," said Jocelyn Kiley, Pew associate director of research and one of the report's authors. "There are also some rather striking differences across ideological groups."

People categorized as "consistent conservatives," for example, tended to place a high premium on teaching children religious faith, while "consistent liberals" did not. The consistent liberals found great value in teaching tolerance, which was much lower on the conservatives' priority list. Curiosity ranks high on liberal rankings, but low for conservatives. Obedience comes in last on the consistent liberal list and was ranked fifth among consistent conservatives.

The report noted that women and men had similar priorities, although women listed helping others and empathy as important more often than men did. Women put a "somewhat higher priority" on teaching religious faith.

Breaking the priorities down by age showed differences in valuing obedience 68 percent of those 65 and older prioritize it, compared to 56 percent for those younger than 30.

World as classroom

Numerous surveys, studies and organizations have looked at how kids learn character and values.

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The Pew Research Center offers fresh evidence that the divides in American politics run deep, stemming from real differences in values among Americans.

The nonpartisan research group asked Americans which of 12 different qualities were especially important to teach children. Respondents also were given the chance to choose up to three as most important. Pew then correlated the answers with political ideology.

The resulting report,being released Thursday, finds some clear divides. Conservatives are more likely to value teaching religious faith and obedience. Liberals are more likely to value teaching tolerance, empathy for others, curiosity and creativity.

Those findings are not exactly shocking. Conservatives often hold positions aligned with their religious values, such as opposition to abortion, and liberals are often express the need for public policy to show empathy for others, such as aid to the poor.

Still, they are another marker of the deep differences driving politics today, said William Galston of the Brookings Institute, a White House adviser to former President Bill Clinton. Political orientation, broad political commitments are not shallow or transient, he said.

Its not just that political fights divide the nation; its that the nations divisions over values often drive political fights.

Keith Appell, who works on behalf of many conservative issues, posited that religious faith, the most popular value for conservatives, encompasses a wide range of values: love, honesty, courtesy, respect for family.

Traditionally, families have seen these as principles to build on for success in life, he said.

Eighty-one percent of the most conservative Americans said religious faith was especially important to teach kids, and 59% said it was one of the most important qualities to teach.

Among the most liberal people: just 26% said it was especially important, and 11% said most important.

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Study: How Liberals, Conservatives Split on Religion and Tolerance

Kids are the cutest Rorschach inkblot tests. If you want to get a sense of people's "values," the go-to contemporary term for social mores, there's no better way than to ask them what they think children should be taught. And, in fact, that's exactly what Pew did in a recent survey, asking a panel of respondents about the importance of lessons about "responsibility," "creativity," and "perseverance."

The results reinforce a certain Protestant-work-ethic caricature of America. Out of 12 choices, "being responsible," "hard work," and "being well-mannered" were consistently ranked as the most important values to teach to children. Close runners-up included "persistence" and "independence," the other qualities on the list that evoke American self-reliance.

The data also present a familiar caricature of "liberals" and "conservatives." Based on a longer survey that classified respondents along an ideological spectrum from left to right, the researchers found that "consistent conservatives" were more likely to prioritize obedience and religious faith in particular, while "consistent liberals" emphasized tolerance, creativity, curiosity, and empathy for others. They were also significantly less likely than other respondents to rate "hard work" as one of the most important things to teach childrenthey ranked 13 percentage points lower than "consistent conservatives."

Views on Empathy, Curiosity, Creativity, Faith, Tolerance, and Obedience Across the Ideological Spectrum

These results track closely with the vague sense impressions people often use to describe the poles of American culture and politics: disciplined, religion-loving, straight-laced conservatives vs. artsy, smarty pants, soft-hearted liberals. The results for "empathy," "helping others," and "hard work" seem particularly potent. "Of course conservatives want to slash food-stamp spending," one could imagine a staunch liberal saying. "They don't teach their children to empathize with others." Alternatively: "Of course liberals want to dump money into food stamps. They don't care about hard work."

That's a powerful and dangerous thing about survey-based social science. It can offer evidence that, yes, the associative thinking Americans use to understand their peers' values and priorities does have some basis in reality. But it can also reify stereotypes about how people see the world, attaching hard numbers to highly interpretive, charged concepts.

"Tolerance" is a great example: 88 percent of "consistently liberal" respondents rated it as an important thing to teach kids, with 22 percent rating it among their top three values. Among "consistent conservatives," only 41 percent placed significance on teaching tolerance, with barely anyone including that in their list of most important lessons. But it seems unlikely that most conservatives are encouraging their kids to commit hate crimes and refuse to be in the same classroom as kids who are different from them. Perhaps those respondents interpret "tolerance" as a buzzword used by some left-leaning organizations to advocate positions like support for affirmative action, or maybe exclusion of prayer in public schools. This interpretation may or may not have fidelity to what "tolerance" actually means, but that's the whole point: The words people use as shorthand for "values" actually represent complex constellations of cultural and political thought. At least in part, this survey reinforces stereotypes about liberals and conservatives because it relies on concepts that have been continuously appropriated and transformed for ideological purposes.

That's not to say the results aren't interesting. Does it seem important that the proportion of women who value empathy was 14 percentage points higher than the proportion of men, or that Millennials were half as likely to rate "religious faith" as one of the most important things to teach kids compared to people over 30? Yes. Is it curious that 62 percent of white people said curiosity is important, compared to 48 percent of Hispanicsor, actually, that anyone at all said that curiosity doesn't matter that much for kids? Yes. Does it seem intuitively correct that people older than 65 were really into obedient children? Again, yes.

But do we really know that liberals are more empathetic than conservatives? No, probably not.

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