EDUCATION IS A VEHICLE TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ADAMAWA STATE
Education is the natural, harmonious and progressive development of man’s innate  powers; it is also defined as the deliberate and systematic influence extended by a mature person upon the immature through instructions, discipline and harmonious development of the physical, intellect aesthetic, social and spiritual powers of the human being according to their essential hierarchy by and for the individual and social uses and directed towards the union of the educated with the creator of the final end.
Education is basic to development and also regarded as an instrument through which society can be transformed. As a salient factor in transition programme, education equips human resources with the needed knowledge, skills and competencies which would make them functional, and contribute to the all-round development of the nation. It does not only help to supply the essential human capital which is a necessary condition for sustainable economic growth but it is also a key to poverty reduction and a major vehicle for promoting equity, fairness and social justice. For Adamawa State to experience rapid economic growth must give high preference to ensuring that a high percentage of its population is entitled to quality education.
Education is considered a major remedy for many problems faced by developing countries. For example, high fertility rates are adding to population pressures in several countries. From a global perspective and application of knowledge. Education in general and higher education in particular are fundamental to the construction of a knowledge economy and society in all nations. An abundance of well-educated people goes along with a high level of labor productivity.
The result of illiteracy has led to economic backwardness have underlined how a poorly educated, trained and culturally unaware levels, low labor mobility, slow structural changes, slow diffusion of innovation, preventing sustained economic growth to set in. education is an important key of achieving a sustainable national development, the quality of its education should be improved.
Investing in education is fast becoming very significant because of new challenges being faced in Adamawa State environment and the discovery of education as an impetus to economic growth and development, in order to put an end to social vices like unemployment, thuggery, child abuse, drug abuse etc
While Economic Development refers to the transformation, efficient and effective management of human, natural and mineral resources with the creation of wealth and equitable distribution to the masses.  Education is the panacea to poverty, formal education is the major index of wealth and social mobility, the major implication of the stated relationship between poverty and education is that the solution to the poverty problem is to acquire education.
We must not be myopic in terms of maximization of resources especially in Adamawa State in which they involve mostly in Agricultural practice like rearing of livestock’s e.g. poultry, cows, cattle’s etc.  And cultivation of crops e.g. sorghum, millet, beniseed, groundnut, okra, pepper, tomatoes etc. 
We need the intervention of innovation and technology to facilitate food production through the use of machineries, storage ware house, application farm input and educating the farmers through extension diffusion. That is why we need to maximize our resources especially human resources to build our power and potential in order to maximize and utilize the remaining resources or else they remain untapped. Let’s the government invest on people, regardless of background, tribes, ethnics, if we can do this it will go a long way in developing Adamawa State.
Education must not be underestimated, education is a weapon to transform reform and change a, desert to river, a Sahel to forest, from mediocrity to information, technology and innovation. Let’s educate and save our girls, they have been neglected and rejected of their right which belongs to all and sundry. Gender equality is vital in attaining of progressive and sustainable economic development and a peaceful environment. On the other hand, the contribution of women to a society is usually through the workforce, in situations where women are not included in the labor force, only a particular portion of the workforce is being used thus leading to the wastage of economic resources on a large scale. It is clear that if Adamawa State is to prosper the girls must be educated, our failure to ensure this happens is one of the damaging legacies of our time, with generational consequences. In community where child marriage is highly prevalent and teenage pregnancy common, girls become trapped in poverty cycle unless that cycle is interrupted by access to education. Limited access to quality education is damaging not only on an individual level but on a WHY community and ultimately a societal level too.
WHY DO WE  NEED QUALITY EDUCATION IN ADAMAWA STATE?
Quality education is one of the important this we can do for futures generation. All students regardless of the socio-economic status or family background are entitled to education. Having a good education system is not enough for a state to be economically successful, but the state must also be able to hold onto its well educated residents because educated population leads to innovation, higher levels of productivity and increased economic growth.
A country that seeks to experience rapid economic growth must give high preference to ensuring that a high percentage of its population is entitled to quality education. Education in the modern economy has become a determinant for growth of the national economy. This is because, education is seen as an important factor of human capital investment.
Improving the level of school enrolments: School’s attendance and school infrastructure significantly determine the level of educational output. This implies that educational output will increase in the level of school enrolment, school attendance and school’s infrastructure.
The government should provide free education and make it mandatory to each and every citizen. This will help in limiting the level of illiteracy. Government should provide infrastructure and enabling environment to private sector investment for employment generation amongst the youths. They should also provide informal employment opportunities for the citizens and encourage them to be self-reliance. This can only be done through giving loans and building entrepreneurial skill for different types of businesses. This may have effects people and will not easily be brainwashed to involve in any activities like kidnapping, thuggery, sexual violence and insurgency.
Another pertinent issue in Adamawa State educational sector is that of teacher education. The basic problems reported by surveys carried out in various research in Adamawa State have shown discrepancy between the demand for teachers and the supply for teachers and that teachers fail to meet the minimum requirement as stated by the National policy for Education. This is due to lack of incentives, brain-drain and lack of motivation.
Financial constraint has also limit effectiveness and efficiency to quality of education. Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection through the internet, questionnaires and interview to update in their field of study and be relevant in this contemporary world.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of education on economic growth in Adamawa State from the above it is therefore recommended that the Adamawa government need to set up appropriate policies that will modify the educational sector of the economy to improve its standard as well as making education affordable and accessible to all.
Secondly, there must be provision of facilities for education at the crucial primary school level, especially at local government levels, the government therefore require a total restructuring of the primary education to improve its standard and level of enrolment.
Thirdly, there must be availability of infrastructural requirements in the education sector accelerates economic growth. There must be adequate facilities both public and private sectors. In order to enhance teaching learning process.
Fourthly, incentives that will improve teacher performances and availability of educational infrastructures is also to be examined so as to enable Adamawa State to increase its human capital formation that could lead to possible growth and development

EDUCATION IS A DYNAMITE TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD