The document discusses the need for total education that encompasses cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. It states that the failures of individuals and society reflect failures of the educational system to provide education in all three domains. The cognitive domain provides academic knowledge, the affective domain teaches ethics and builds character, and the psychomotor domain develops physical skills. A balanced and total education combining these three domains is necessary to guarantee individual and societal success.

1. …..societal academic excellence
TOTAL EDUCATION FOR EXCELLENCE
Education for future success and a balanced life must flow from the
adequate enrichment of the individual from his/her formativedays of
emptiness (tabula rasa) as a child to adulthood. Thefailures of
individuals prevalent in our society reflect the failure of the educational
system to provide wholesome education.
Education is in three domains: cognitive (brain, academics),
affective(mind, behavioral and moralistic) and the psychomotor
(physical skills).
THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN:
Inculcates logical andintellectual knowledge, the cognitive gives
answers to questions like
What is chemistry?
How to produce an atomic bomb?
What are the principles of social psychology? etc.

2. The cognitive helps explain the world around us; it dispenses
knowledge and gives the child a broad understanding of the world and
how it works?
AFFECTIVE DOMAIN:
The affective domain teaches ethics and moral philosophy, it answers
questions such as
is creating genetically engineered foods right?
is it right to use neuroscience in marketing?
It aids in building attitudes and emotional framework for individuals
thus affecting their behavior.
PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN:
the psychomotor domain builds the physical skills of the individual
example the turning of an athlete, the physical exercises of a footballer
etc.
The failures of individuals and the Nigerian societyreflect the failure of
the educational system to provide wholesome education. Consider our
political elite and technocrats that are vast in technical knowledge and
philosophies but lack the moral philosophy required to do what is right
(this is a classic example of lack of insufficiency or complete lack of
affective education).
Thearea boys in our streets, possess the physical activity and vigor
(physical activity: psychomotor) yet lacking adequate cognitive

3. education and most often affective required to contribute meaningfully
to the society.
The combination of the three domains guarantees the success of
individuals and thus society. Society needs to build the brains, mind and
physical ability of its people for proper functioning and activity. While
the brain gives man intellectual ability to function, the mind decides
what he should or shouldn't do, while his psychomotor domain
maintains his body in a state of physical wellbeing thus avoiding the
harmful effects of body use and disuse.
ALABI, PHILIP EPHRAIM
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