Oracle of Wisdom Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs

Education is systematic training and instruction designed to transmits knowledge and develop skills in individuals. It has also been agreed that child learning is one very crucial part in the formation stage of anyone. Scholars have also argued that any crack in this stage, can affect the whole of the person's life. It has also been argued that most adults who become deviants in the society may have suffered from some educational missing-links during their child formation. This paper, applying the analytic method of enquiring, will be focusing majorly on the negative implications of the social factors in the learning of the child, how they can be identified in learning process, and how these effects can be prevented in the child's education. It encourages that educators invent the kind of 's social learning theory, which emphasizes learning through observation and modeling in teaching. Without prejudice, it is right to note that the alarming effects of these social factors in the child's learning is already a bane the educational terrain in Nigeria. Both parents and educators as therefore of the interest that the psychology of the learner be put into consideration by checkmating these factors in our Nigerian children.

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