Abstract: | The author argues that the true purpose of education is to make a rounded person and precisely this aspect is essential to the Campaign for National Rebirth recently launched by the President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. He deplores the fact that education in Nigeria is being forced into the Industrial Production Model (predicted by Veblen in 1918), when its antithesis, the Talent Development Model, would contribute far more to the reform of Nigerian society. The development and utilization of multidimensional talent, the affective and behavioural talents above all, is indispensable to a country caught up in the throes of social disturbance like Nigeria. He is convinced that for any such programme to work, the students themselves will have to be involved. He concludes his paper with a practical plan of action. [ASC Leiden abstract] |