GOAL 4 OF THE SDGs

Goals Four(4) of the sustainable development goals is Quality education. 

A quick check on what education is will reveal a process that spans through impacting knowledge and skills to a person or people and changing their crude culture to a more acceptable and valuable one. 

This includes developing the capacity and capability of future employees to be able to take up jobs and develop new opportunities for development and sustainable growth.

Today, education is a fundamental human right that when enforced, will be capable of developing future employees as job pilpelines for the coming economic growth the nations are looking towards. Therefore, ensuring it holistically covers developing trends around the world cannot be over emphasized.

Education is a local issue, local in the sense that it starts from the home and spans throughout the life of a person. Quality education as advocated by the United Nation through the fourth goal is just beyond the walls of school and beyond borders.

 For this, we've seen how today, everything around the world is rising and falling on the shoulders of a qualitative and working educational curriculum which captures skills and capacities acquired far beyond the walls of the classroom. Maybe, sometimes around the classroom too.

If education must be qualitative and relevant today, there is an urgent need for educators and learners to move quickly and embrace modern and unconventional methods which do not aim at rote learning principles which are basically theories without practice.

Young people must engage modern learning opportunities such as the internet to develop their skills and further sharpen their understanding of the things to be able to meet up with modern educational demands.

 The old teaching curricula in practice around schools in Africa and Nigeria in particular is stale and ancient and cannot cater for the developmental demands of the jet age.

Again, they must seek purposeful mentorship from well learned people and voices doing amazing things around the world.

 The world has become such a small global village such that these people can be reached on real time through several channels such as the available social media platforms we have vis a viz; Facebook, LinkedIn, Emails and the rest which have become mega learning centers recently.

So, if qualitative education must be achieved rapidly by 2030 as projected by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals, the numerous educational opportunities technology and science has provided for the society today must be embraced by all and sundry to make it a success.