The Deputy Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Lagos Chapter, Adedoyin Adesina has stated that free education should be discouraged.
Adesina, who was speaking to a cross section of people on the topic ‘Effective Teaching’, recently in Lagos, said that free education had made students not to be serious and focused with their education.
He said parents no longer buy books for their children because they believed education was free and they would wait and expect the government to provide books for their children.
According to him “if you give students assignments to do at home, they will not have textbooks to work on. Students themselves don’t buy books. They wait and hope the government provides them the books needed”.
According to him, lack of classrooms was another factor that made teaching ineffective, arguing that teachers were not the cause of the problems in the education sector but policies on education.
He said the scheme of work being set by the curriculum planners couldn’t be exhausted.
Also speaking, frontline educationist, Taiwo Olaniran said “even with the policy, teachers can make teaching effective by making his teaching interesting and interactive for students to focus totally on what is being taught, despite having a large number of students”.