Going Back to the Basics in the Quest for Scientific Development in Nigeria : From Classroom to Laboratory in Pre Tertiary Science

There are many contradictions in Nigeria concerning development. This is where people seek for technological development without human development and also seeks technological advancement without commensurate attention to what happens in pre tertiary school science classrooms and laboratories. Obviously, these result in exercises in futility. In this paper pre tertiary means any science education from nursery to secondary schools. Thus it includes pre basic, basic and senior secondary schools. We may not have biology, chemistry and physics in basic and pre basic levels as we do have in senior secondary school but science is offered at these levels and we must examine what happens at that level if there must be scientific developments