What are the features of quality education?
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Introduction. These two words, “quality” and “education” are commonly and carelessly used in every day discussion – especially among leaders and business men and women. Every leader promises to provide the populace with quality education. Many of such promises have come and gone without any remarkable impact on the quality of education provided to the populace. It is on records that many leaders, institutions, organizations and individuals have in various ways spent large amount of their resources to ensure that the objective of providing quality education is achieved. In most cases, the situation remains the same if not worsened. The big question one may ask here is, do such leaders or institutions or bodies understand what constitutes quality education? This is because a woman who doesn’t know the ingredients that make soup tasty may be given a huge amount of money – yet the husband may be tempted to sack her because of the nature of the soup she prepared. It is therefore necessary that the two key words, “quality” and “education” be defined. Quality as contained in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2010), means the standard of something when it is compared to other things like it; how good or bad something is. Quality is used on every commodity e.g quality shoes, shirts, cars, etc. When a woman selling banana in the market sees a potential customer approaching her shed, she will not waste time to make use of “quality” to draw the man nearer for the purchase of her banana. Thus she will say “buy high quality banana”. This means that any commodity can either be of a high quality or low quality. Equally we have low quality and high quality education.