Former Director General and Rector of GIMPA, Prof. Stephen Adei, says his motivation to be a teacher was seeing the results education had in the lives of people and the nation as a whole.

According to him, while others might have been in the business for the financial gain, he on the other hand taught people because he loved doing it.

“Seeing results, lives being transformed, having an impact on your country, I mean, these are the rewards. Many people think that we should be working for [money], yes, when you get the money it’s a by-product, but for me the results, the lives changed and the rest,” he said on JoyNews PM Express Personality Profile.

Describing himself as a teacher at heart, he said during his time as a university professor at GIMPA, he had the opportunity to have the current Speaker of Parliament and the First Deputy Speaker, Alban Bagbin and Joseph Osei Owusu as his students.

“Even today I can say that honourable Bagbin and honourable Osei Owusu were classmates sitting under my feet doing their masters. I mean what else …its fulfilling and when I see honourable Bagbin putting [the gavel down] ‘order!’ I say ‘hey, I should have failed you’” he said.

He noted that having such ‘big men’ in your classroom was a great experience for him as he not only had the opportunity to teach them, but he also learnt a great deal from them.

“And especially in GIMPA when you have these people as students, I was learning more from them than myself. So I taught them Leadership I, Leadership II, I will teach Economics and the rest, because most of the time you’re discussing with people who really were very experienced and they contributed as much as….and if you have a good teaching you don’t go and just give lectures to such big men you interact and other things.

“It was hardwork but I enjoyed myself at GIMPA,” he said.