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Invest in children at early stages - Edjeani

The Deputy Director of Pre-tertiary Education of the Ghana Education Service, Mrs Esther Edjeani, has advised parents to provide their children with the necessary tools that will enable them to undertake research, from the basic educational level.

She said waiting till the children reached the tertiary level before beginning to invest in them was not helpful.

Mrs Esther Edjeani was addressing the speech and prize-giving day of the St. Peters Mission School at Ashale Botwe, a suburb of Accra.

The ceremony was on the theme: “Effective primary education, a necessary condition for creating great minds in the Future”.

Mrs Edjeani said one of the keys to enhancing the academic proficiency of children was for parents to provide their children with all the necessary learning materials.

That, she said, would empower them to engage in research and also expose them to new ideas and knowledge that would broaden their outlook for the future.

“Parents have to make it their priority to invest in the education of their children because knowledge that comes from education remains one’s personal property forever,” she said.

According to her, it took the collaborative effort of parents and teachers for a child to fully discover his or her talents and skills.

“Education will forever make your child full and civilised. This implies the development of your child’s talents, the growth of his/her body, mind and spirit and the responsibilities of citizenship,” Mrs Edjeani said.

Mrs Edjeani lauded the management and staff of the school for providing adequate facilities to support teaching and learning at the school.

The Director of St Peters Mission School, Mr Moses Adu-Gyimah, said the school had placed priority on nurturing and developing the skills and abilities of  its students. According to him, since the foundation of every child was crucial, the school had put in place all the infrastructure and equipment needed to sharpen the capabilities of the students.

Mr Adu-Gyimah said pre-school and primary education had a positive effect on children throughout their school years and the rest of their lives.

Touching on the achievements of the school, he said the school had recorded 100 per cent passes since 1996, and that in the 2012 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE),  a candidate from the school, Kwakyewaa Oppong Nyarko, emerged the overall best candidate out of those in private schools in the Adentan municipality.

By Dominic Moses Awiah/Daily Graphic/Ghana

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