SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Socio-Economic Background and Education are closely related issues. They influence each other. In this paper we are only concern with the influence of socio-economic Background on Education and not influence of education or socio-economic background of the child. Scholars are unanimous on the view that to a every large extent socio-economic background affects a child educational achievements. The type of home the child is brought up affects his success or failure so also the type of school the child attends affects his achievement in education as there are low and high quality schools. In Nigeria materials factors are overwhelming in determining educational achievement. No matter how clever a child is, if there is no adequate provision of educational materials for learning the child performance will be minimal. It is the consensus of scholars that the home, environment, type of schools one attends, provision of materials and the interest and encouragement given to the child affects his achievement. It is the parents of high socio-economic background that provide adequately for their children hence high educational achievement from their children.The paper recommended that, Government should by Act of Parliament put in place a law that will protect the Child's Right to Education so that any child that is born in Nigeria must have access to education from primary to secondary.