The following are speeches delivered by Professors Banji Oyeyinka and Ladipo Adamolekun, respectively,
during the 66th anniversary webinar of the Free Universal Basic Education of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Held on Sunday, January 17, 2021, the webinar was organised by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation.
I wish to thank Dr. Dosunmu Awolowo, Executive Director of Awolowo Foundation for inviting me to this event, celebrating an epochal event that transformed our lives irrevocably. Ernie Flecther said: “Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.” Education clearly exerts powerful and long-lasting generational impact. The pre-determined conditions of an individual early in life especially those determined by the material conditions of parents, especially poverty, constitute a drag on their progress and tend to reduce their chances of opportunities or success in life, including the impairment of basic rights and freedom.
(AWO FOUNDATION WEBINAR): Education as enabler of development (AWO FOUNDATION WEBINAR): Education as enabler of development
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I wish to thank Dr. Dosunmu Awolowo Executive Director of Awolowo Foundation for inviting me to this event celebrating an epochal event that transformed our lives irrevocably.
As Ernie Flecther said: “Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”
Education clearly exert powerful and long-lasting generational impact. The pre-determined conditions of an individual early in life especially those determined by the material conditions of parents, especially poverty, constitute a drag on their progress and tend to reduce their chances of opportunities or success or in life, including the impairment of basic rights and freedom.