ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS1 SECOND TERM

WEEK FOUR

THEME; READING

COMPREHENSION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Read through passage
2. 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 an important part of education and refused to accept the official view that education and politics should not be mixed with.... View More