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29th July, 2009
Religious Schs Urged To Focus On Development Of Students
The Senior Pastor of the Redemption Baptist Church, Cape Coast, Rev Dr Isaac Mill-Owoo, has appealed to religious organisations, especially educational institutions not to focus on financial gains from their institutions alone but also on the total development of the students.
He stressed the need for them to engage in the spiritual and moral upbringing of the youth since it was the surest way of developing a solid human resource base.
Rev Dr Mills-Owoo made the call at the 15th speech and prize giving day of Redemption Baptist Preparatory School here on Sunday.
The celebration was on the theme “Total development of the Child”.
Rev Mills-Owoo, who is also the director of the school, further called for the adoption of a holistic approach in education to meet the challenges of the day.
He expressed concern about the gap existing between parents and their children and said that had accounted for the level of indiscipline among the youth.
He acknowledged that the level of unemployment in the region was a challenge to parents in investing in the education of their wards but stressed that, education was best investment parents would leave for their children.
The school according to Rev Mills-Owoo, would focus on combining godliness and morality to the academic subjects.
“We hope to train the child to develop with integrity so as to be empowered to confront the challenges of the modern society, vis-à-vis teenage pregnancy, crave for easy money (sakawa), prostitution and armed robbery,” he added.
The headmistress of Wesley Girls High School, Mrs Betty Djokoto, in an address, called for the institution of moral education in the country’s educational curriculum.
“It is through the moral education that children are helped to imbibe virtues that make them respectful, hardworking, truthful, tolerant, and patriotic pupils who are taught to use their talents for the benefit of others in all humility,” she added.
She called for a collaboration between parents and teachers in the moulding of the pupils and urged parents to spend quality time with their children.
She said that “our interaction with them is laying a foundation for what they would become in future”.
Mrs Djokoto further appealed to stakeholders in education to assist in the nurturing of leaders for the nation who were willing to serve God and mankind.
He stressed the need for them to engage in the spiritual and moral upbringing of the youth since it was the surest way of developing a solid human resource base.
Rev Dr Mills-Owoo made the call at the 15th speech and prize giving day of Redemption Baptist Preparatory School here on Sunday.
The celebration was on the theme “Total development of the Child”.
Rev Mills-Owoo, who is also the director of the school, further called for the adoption of a holistic approach in education to meet the challenges of the day.
He expressed concern about the gap existing between parents and their children and said that had accounted for the level of indiscipline among the youth.
He acknowledged that the level of unemployment in the region was a challenge to parents in investing in the education of their wards but stressed that, education was best investment parents would leave for their children.
The school according to Rev Mills-Owoo, would focus on combining godliness and morality to the academic subjects.
“We hope to train the child to develop with integrity so as to be empowered to confront the challenges of the modern society, vis-à-vis teenage pregnancy, crave for easy money (sakawa), prostitution and armed robbery,” he added.
The headmistress of Wesley Girls High School, Mrs Betty Djokoto, in an address, called for the institution of moral education in the country’s educational curriculum.
“It is through the moral education that children are helped to imbibe virtues that make them respectful, hardworking, truthful, tolerant, and patriotic pupils who are taught to use their talents for the benefit of others in all humility,” she added.
She called for a collaboration between parents and teachers in the moulding of the pupils and urged parents to spend quality time with their children.
She said that “our interaction with them is laying a foundation for what they would become in future”.
Mrs Djokoto further appealed to stakeholders in education to assist in the nurturing of leaders for the nation who were willing to serve God and mankind.
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