Back to: Civic Education Primary 1
Welcome to class. Today, we will be discussing the meaning of civic education.
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Every person has a duty to his government and his community. The government and community also have duties to every person. Civic education is the subject from which we learn our duties towards the government and our community. We also learn the duties of the government towards us.
Advantages/Importance of Civic Education
Civic education has many advantages. Here are some of them.
- It makes us obey rules and order in the community.
- It helps us to know what our rights a For example, we have the right to live wherever we like in our country.
- It helps us to know our duties. For example, we should pay tax to the government.
- It helps us to live as brothers’ and sisters’ and to work together.
- It helps us become good members of the community, because it teaches us how to make our community better.
- It helps us to learn what the government or community should do for us.
- It promotes pea When we all know our rights and our duties, we will understand each other better, and then we would live peacefully.
- It helps us participate in the activities of our community. We would learn how to develop our community.
Ways of Learning Civic Education
Learning civic education is very important. We can learn it in the following ways:
- Listening to our parents and teachers and obeying them. They are wiser than we are; so we should learn from them.
- Reading newspapers, books and magazines that carry government a
- Listening to radio programmes and watching television.
- Visiting elders in the community to tell us stories about how they have helped the community.
Quiz
- What is civic education?
- Mention three ways in which we can learn civic education.
- Give four reasons why civic education is good for us.
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