Education is a critical input in human resource development and is essential for the Country’s economic growth. The goals of universal literacy and enrolment are laudable in themselves; the achievements in these areas would remain hollow without ensuring quality education. This paper includes causes of quality crises and provides a way to qualitative improvement in the content and processes of basic education, in order to make them more responsive to the learning needs of individuals and the development needs of different socioeconomic sectors. The challenge for providing quality education at the elementary level involves improvements in the preparation, motivation and deployment of teachers, the quality of textbooks and of infrastructural facilities. It also involves making education relevant to society’s needs and strengthening the management and institutional capacity of educational institutions especially at the state, district and local levels.