CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION According to Drucker 1993, Allis etal, 1996, education 1s defined as key to future economic prosperity. According to Drever, education is a process in which and by which the knowledge, character and behaviour of the young are shaped and modified" According to Rodden "Education is the deliberate and systematic influence exerted by the mature person upon the immature, through instruction, discipline and harmonious development of physical, intellectual, social and spiritual powers of the human being, according to individual and social needs and directed towards the union of the educate with his creator as the final end". Free primary education is a process by which the government provides education to primary school children with out their parents incurring expenditure or paying school fees. Before, education was not free and parents were paying school fees and buying incentives for their children, but struggle and their performance is impressive. Theri later the government made the education free for primary school children which make the situation different according to teacher's perception. The declaration of free primary Education (January, 2003) was in recognition of education as a basic right of all Kenyan children as articulated in the recently enacted children's Act (2001 ). The declaration also sought to address the limited progress towards the attainment of Free primary education (F .P .E) witnessed in the last decade.
