The principal/administrator of the Haywood Mission Institute challenged the 2022/2023 graduating class of the Best Brain Academy to be focused and studious in their pursuit of sound and quality education for a better future.
Bishop Leo M. Simpson, serving as key note speaker on the Topic: ‘Education – Your Way Out of Poverty’, described education as a process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the power of reasoning and judgment, and generally preparing yourself or others intellectually for natural life.
Bishop Simpson urged the graduates to make reading their habit, as it can take them to places beyond their imagination, and displayed books with titles like Right to Learn-Liberia Dream, Journey Without marks-The Greaves Are Not Yet Full, Liberia The heart of Darkness and Growth without Development, which are resourceful for their educational sojourn.
The Liberian educator said Liberia is unarguably one of the poorest nations on earth and this is our unabated, sordid, national collective shame.
He said Liberia is a nation where there is observable growth, but without felt development, and that the greater majority of the people are sweltering in punishing heat of poverty, without past or present leadership finding solutions to the situation.
The Haywood Mission Administrator told the graduates to distance themselves from ignorance in the pursuit of education, which he described as a lack of useful knowledge and pertinent information, adding that the greater portion of Liberia’s population is designed ignorant.
Bishop Simpson said according to UNESCO report on Liberia, about three hundred and fifty thousand children of school going age are out of school, due to poverty, with girls topping the list of children that are not in school.
He called on relevant government institutions in the field of education to do the needful and address the situation, as time is running out and the country is going down the drain, with other countries around us far ahead, saying a nation that is 176 years has nothing to show when it comes to education.
In her speech, the valedictorian of the graduating class, student Amarachi Alcuma, spoke on the Topic, “The essence of good parenting for a child.”
She said positive parenting helps children to do better in school, have less behavior problems, and stronger mental health, and also provides encouragement, support, and access to activities that enable a child to master key development tasks.
She said parents are the most valuable gifts given to children by God, and behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first, adding that being a good parent means you need to teach your child the morals of what is right and what is wrong, setting limits and being consistent is the golden rule of good discipline.
