Education serves as the means to bring about the desired change in the society, to develop a generation of virtues individuals and thus contribute to the development of good human beings. The fundamental purpose of education is to gain knowledge, indicate the forms of proper conduct and acquire technical competency. Education serves as the means to develop oneself physically, mentally and socially. The importance of education to youths manifests itself in the terms of the need to cultivate the youths of the society into mature individuals.

Education, if simply stated, means the process of gaining knowledge, inculcating form of proper conduct and acquiring technical competency. It involves the cultivation of an innocent mind, the instilling of values and principles in the mind of children. It includes the development of skills along with the achievement.of one’s physical, mental and social development. To put it in the technical terms education consists of defined phases starting from formal education that consist of primary , secondary and higher education and ideally it never ends. The process of education that is believed to begin in the womb continues throughout life.