Learning Environment as a Predictor of Pupils Academic Performance in Ado-Odo Otta Ogun State

CHAPTER   ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Education is a universal phenomenon which allows all human societies to develop the prerequisite knowledge experience and skills for their preservation and growth. It is a tool for imparting knowledge, a process by which an individual acquires the physical, social, intellectual and moral capabilities required to function effectively and become a useful member of his or her society.

It is an instrument par excellence for effecting national development (FRN,2004), as well as for individual socio-economic empowerment and  poverty reduction. for education to be useful in proper manpower development. It has to be functional. Education may be described as a process of teaching or instruction received, a process of training and improving one’s test and life standard. Education has been described as the bedrock of every society and a tools for nation building Oknkoko and Udeze (2012), Ablumanuyu (2004) stressed that education contribute to the individual personal development, increases his/her productivity and income at work and facilitate participation in economic and social life.in recent times, quality education was brought to focus owing to the neglect and mass production of educated people without regards to set standard ,procedure and process in education.