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This paper focused on Quality Education as a Panacea for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria. It aimed at enlightening the society about the viability of quality education in poverty reduction in Nigeria. It identified poverty as a threat to effective participation of individuals in the society so long as a big gap exists between individuals and their physiological needs. Moreover, the lack of basic human needs such as water, food, clothing, shelter, security etc is detrimental to human dignity. However, quality education becomes a dispensable tool to close that gap in order to restore human dignity though with emphasis on the commitments and provisional roles of stakeholders in education towards actualizing quality education. The paper enumerated some of the expected roles of stakeholders in education such as establishment of a comprehensive education system, built on merit and excellence rather than on quota system and federal character-related practices. It also pointed out the necessity of moral education, history, skills acquisition orientated subjects, hands-on teaching methods, teachers’ periodic training and provision of functional health facilities, healthy and enabling environment and so on for both learners and teachers. Meanwhile, the paper stressed on the significance of poverty reduction in the society through provision of quality education to learners by the teachers, parents, and government. The paper opined that by-products of low quality education: low productivity, low income, low savings, low investment and poverty would automatically become the case of Nigerian society if quality education is not made imperative in Nigeria. Hence, recommendations that encourage the actualization of quality education in Nigeria were made. The paper concluded that teachers’ activities, learners’ concerns, and healthy teaching and learning environments among other variables alongside education stakeholders’ commitments and efforts shall guarantee quality education, the fruit of which will be evidenced in the improved living standard of the society.
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