By
Alberta Larkai & Patience Asieduwa Adu
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| The Graduating Class |
Parents
have been entreated to give their children sound christian education to make
them useful citizens in future.
“Sound
Christian Education connotes helping our children to be mature, well developed and
useful to themselves and contributing meaningfully to national development.”
The
Guidance and Counselling Coordinator of the Accra Metro’s Office of the Ghana
Education Service, Elizabeth Oduro Mensah, stated this in a speech read for her
at the 19th Graduation Ceremony of the Hansen Road SDA School, in
Accra, on the theme: Sound Christian Education-a Tool for Development.
Forty
students made up of 22, girls and 18 boys received certificates for
participating in the 2012 Basic Education Certificate Examination.
According
to Madam Oduro Mensah, it beholds teachers, parents, and policy makers to
collaborate to give children the proper education they yearn for.
Mrs.
Mensah stressed that as frontline educators, teachers have the onerous
responsibility of inculcating in the students virtuous lives education which
could guarantee them good jobs and careers.
She
asked teachers to be conscious of their responsibilities and work diligently,
bearing in mind that, with God, they are training the human resource of the
nation.
“Apart
from the book knowledge you give to your students, you must consciously ensure
that your students have the requisite life skills to make them functional
enough to impact positively on other lives,” she stressed.
Mrs.
Mensah enjoined parents to continually sacrifice for the future well-being of
their children.
“The
school and the home are mixing bowls which harness and develop the talents of
the child. Those institutions make the child who he or she is,” she pointed out.
James
Arthur, the Headmaster of the school, called on parents, teachers, school
authorities and other stakeholders to unite and bring the young ones up.
He
advised the graduating class to allow the sound christian education they
experienced in the school to propel them to greater heights.
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