COMPREHENSION C
ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS1 SECOND TERM
WEEK FOUR
THEME; READING
COMPREHENSION
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE
Students should be able to;
- Read through passage
- Answer questions from the passage
CONTENT
Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Political education has many connotations. It may be defined as the preparation of a citizen to take well informed, responsible and sustained action for participation in the national struggle in order to achieve the socio-economic objectives of the country. The predominant socio-economic objectives in India are the abolition of poverty and the creation of a modern democratic, secular and socialist society in place of the present traditional, feudal, hierarchical and inegalitarian one.
Under the colonial rule, the Congress leaders argued that political education was…