The Effect Of School Structure And Environment On The Performance Of Secondary School Student

CHAPTER ONE  INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The school is a social and learning agent that provides the environment upon which a child may be formally educated in order to attain educational goals. Human beings, have unlimited capacity to learn, but might however be limited by the behavior patterns and facilities that the immediate environment offers. According to Umoh (2006), nature only provides the raw materials in form of potentials, but it is the environment that determines the extent of development. The menace of academic failure among the young school graduates has sta…