President Nana Akufo-Addo has stated that Africa has the resources and ability to finance the entry to first-class schooling for its citizens and promote the progress of the continent.
He said, “We can’t rely on other people to finance the training on our continent. I am pronouncing that now not to show me again or to be ungrateful to these types of essential or noble people who’ve devoted themselves to assist, no.
“But, if we make our coverage dependent on different humans when their policy changes, we can go through. But, if we make the policy for ourselves, then it means that, always, we can be in control of our very own future.”
The President said this when he led the Ghanaian delegation to the third International Conference on the “Replenishment of the Funds of the Global Partnership for Education” in Dakar, Senegal.
This was on the invitation of President Macky Sall of Senegal and President Emmanuel Macron of France.
Reiterating his perception that there’s an abundance of resources on the continent to finance Africa’s improvement, President Akufo-Addo stated that the sources might be put to top use by casting off corruption in public life.
He brought that having extra clever arrangements for those who need to take advantage of the continent’s resources, and stopping the flight of capital out of the continent may enhance development.
“Thabo Mbeki’s Commission, which looked at the illicit flows of capital out of Africa, has estimated that for each year, in the ultimate ten years, $50 billion is going out of Africa through illicit means.
“Can you imagine what those monies, if we had our eyes open, and we were now not complicit in that illicit outflow, could mean for the ability of our nations?” he asked.
The project, therefore, confronting Africa, the President opined, is “how we can organize ourselves to make sure that the wealth, the large wealth of this superb continent, at least, within the first time in modern history, is used on behalf of the peoples of the continent, and no longer the ones outside.”
President Akufo-Addo turned confident that “if we are capable of near that hole, we will come here to Dakar to speak approximately education and not the funding of education by way of others.
“We can be talking approximately the first-rate of our training, the adjustments we want to make to our curricula, and the emphasis we must find on our records and sociology.”
He brought that, “So that I am no longer misunderstood, all the ones who have been making the pledges, it’s all proper. But, I think we must get our complete attitude proper. We have inside us the capacity to expand and sell the hobby of our continent ourselves. Let’s do it.”
Importance of Education
Touching on the importance of training to the advancement of the continent, the President stated that Africa has the youngest population and is the richest continent on this planet, but with the worst living conditions can be simply broken with the aid of training.
He indicated that “we are going to should make certain that each young infant, boy, and girl has access to schooling. Not only do they’ve access to training, but they also have access to training to allow them to you can cope with the demanding situations of the 21st century.”
Narrating Ghana’s experience, President Akufo-Addo said that the country has decided to open opportunities for everybody.
In confronting the query of the high-quality of education to prepare the younger population of Africa for the 21st century, he indicated that it is best to have a greater recognition of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, as a way to guarantee the future of the continent.
“We have seen that in improving the economies of Asia, in China, India, Japan, and Korea. That is the way ahead, as a way to make the transition from terrible to prosperity,” the President introduced.
President Akufo-Addo accompanied the Conference using the Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway MP; Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh; and officials of the Presidency, Foreign and Education Ministries.
The purpose of schooling is to create accountable, effective, and socially contributing residents – individuals who can provide for their own families in addition to contributing to their communities. As Toffler says, training in the 21st century needs to permit human beings to study, unlearn, and relearn. But I am not sure our faculties and schools are committed to this.
Education is one of the most unscientific human endeavors. You do well in the faculty to get into an amazing university and earn a good degree. A precise degree is meant to be a passport to an excellent task. Based on your academic qualifications, you can climb to a fairly high position without demonstrating any outstanding capacity.
Beyond that, however, you may have troubles. There is no mounted link between your performance in college and your overall performance in a job. Even greater importance, there’s no hyperlink between your overall performance at the task and your performance in life.
To be real to cause, education must support a toddler to expand three essential abilities:
1. Discover, broaden, and always evolve an imaginative and prescient to become a beneficial member of society:
Many people have a bonus – our parents envision our future for us, driving us to work in the direction of reaching this vision. However, this isn’t always as not unusual for some of the poor. The education gadget has to step in to assist all people in creating this imaginative and prescient, and to build even the bad child’s self-assurance to pursue the vision.
Balaji Sampath, who runs Eureka Child – an NGO dedicated to improving literacy and math capability in government schools, shared a touching story in this context. Coming back from America to do something significant in education, he immersed himself in local issues by spending a few months in a village. He was in a village schoolroom whilst a toddler asked the teacher whether ot was feasible to tour the moon. “You and I can not fly to the moon,” the trainer answered. “But scientists inside the U.S. Can…” We have to prevent robbing our kids of dreams and goals.
