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Mr. C.D.B. Mensah, Principal of St. Joseph Teachers Training College at Bechem in the Brong- Ahafo Region has stressed the need for Ghana to focus on a holistic education delivery to reduce immorality among the youth.
He noted that every good education should develop the cognitive (mind), the affective (heart) and psychomotor (hand) of an individual to enable the person contribute to total development of his society
“But the country’s education has been centred only on the cognitive and the psychomotor leaving out the affective, which has contributed to the current spate of indiscipline in the country”.
Mr. Mensah was addressing a cross-section of the members of the Association of the Catholic teachers (ACT) at their end-of-year get-together in Kumasi on Monday.
He said, people of today are not trained to have fellow-feeling for others, respect for the elderly and respect for societal values.
He urged the teachers to help mould the personalities and shape up the characters of student under their tutelage.
The Principal advised the teachers to be good role models whiles showing more commitment to their profession to curb the falling standard of education in the country.
Mr. Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Kumasi Metro Director of Education, who presided, advised the teachers to work hard to sustain the new educational reform and also entreated them to be God-fearing
Source: GNA
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