In the traditional African society (TAS), the child is allowed to interact with learning materials and situations. Consequently, learning becomes relevant, meaningful, and purposeful in relation to the individual and the society. In the modern African society (MAS), education has been at best an experiment that is marked with inconsistencies in education systems. As a result, the youth are left confused as they are swept from one system to another without the benefit of counseling. In the TAS, the youth are specifically prepared for the occupations they will take when they become adult members of the society. It facilitates their identification process. The youth are given an academic education only as they grow up in the MAS. Therefore, they flock into urban areas seeking employment as soon as they terminate their academic education. They are disappointed at not finding employment because they lack necessary skills. In the TAS, all adult members of society have a "natural" mandate to correct and counsel youth at any time they find them making mistakes or having problems. On the contrary, parents are expected to correct their youth in the MAS. They pass that responsibility to teachers who understand their responsibility as that of giving youth academic education. Youth problems are ignored by both parties. (Author)