The sole concentrate of an enlightenment programme is to instil, in the breasts and psyche of Ghanaian citizens, a consciousness of fidelity to the Republic delight in our tradition, traditions, establishments and achievements consciousness of civic legal rights and tasks and an African id. We search for to stand out as a impressive and hugely influential Republic that, with the divine assist of God, shall establish a improved universe for mankind.
Our educational mission and curriculum is the most strong antidote for poverty, ailment and numerous other social obstructions that go on to deprive the ordinary cost-free citizen from realising a dignified lifetime in Ghana – so company, very first and foremost, to God and ancestors duly household and enterprise district and province and the Republic to which unique responsibilities are owed.
The Ghanaian Desire and Renaissance
The Ghanaian Aspiration is to be an erudite and moral law-abiding administrator of your home and an industrious entrepreneur or public servant a verified catalyst of district advancement an attained statesman and, or, progressive industrialist to the province and over all, a distinguished architect of the Republic.
The Ghanaian Renaissance is a full expression of our traditional aesthetics in beautifying our public establishments and private enterprises – a form of ultra-nationalism and appreciate for our Republic that crystallises the numerous cultures of each and every clan and nation-state.
Centres of Scholarship
It is the paramount duty of governing administration to guarantee instruction, at no matter what cost essential, is supplied to all Ghanaians, where ever they may possibly uncover them selves on the map, with no regard for their specific social and economic instances.
The quality of indigenous scholarship and excellence of educational establishments should to be a terrific resource of countrywide pleasure, a worthy continental export and our rightful assert to worldwide fame.
To every Province, a design deluxe principal and secondary centre of scholarship which is culturally aesthetic –– encouraged by a great blend of indigenous ancient African architecture and present day technologies –– have to be made in its Provincial money. Each and every monumental construction, an edifice that evokes fascination, need to be furnished with a baronial community library palatial school rooms resident halls a banquet corridor and personal museum athletic services a grand theatre hall and condition-of-the-art science and technology labs.
The govt ought to make provincial funds and bursaries, at secondary and tertiary schooling, obtainable to pupils demonstrated exceptional in academia sports activities and theatre.
Centres of Scholarship should really be divided, administratively, from institutions of dogma such as standard shrines/temples, mosques or church buildings. The instructional curriculum need to involve, at the summary of secondary college education and learning, optional company to either the government or military as a prelude to college scientific tests.
Our Republic ought to unswervingly aim at, and strain our treasury to procure, irrespective of the ever-existing problem of finance, good quality training for our citizens.
The Period of Enlightenment.
In an era when multiple esoteric fraternities were being founded on the Gold Coast – G. H. T. Lyall inaugurated, in 1874, the Masonic Club the Great Templars established, in 1877, by the General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission and Commanding Officer of the Castle garrison, with the assist of Lodge Deputy Grand Chief Templar, J. P. Brown and the Odd-fellows was instituted in 1880 – the Mfantsi Amanbuhu Fekuw, also regarded as the Fante National Political Society, was founded in Cape Coast, Central Province, Gold Coastline in 1889 to deliberately to revive African literature, vogue and audio.
A lawful colossus, eminent political reformist and publisher who hailed from the Central Province, as well as a pioneer of the Fante Countrywide Political Culture, John Mensah Sarbah joined the Fante Public School Enterprise, a missionary enterprise which in 1903, founded the Mfantsi National Schooling Fund that, by 1905, financed the Mfantsipim Secondary School.
Sarbah, an altruistic human being, embodied the values of a accurate patriot devoted to enlightenment and renaissance. He set up a scholarship for pupils and workers members to safeguard the perpetual success of Mfantsipim.
It is through the ethics and values of our centres of scholarship that the Republic could harness a meritocratic Ghanaian society in which there is equal opportunity for all citizens, plentiful reward for ambition with an emphasis on person liberty and nationwide unity.
There is, for that reason, even now an urgent need to have, as bluntly expressed by the Gold Coast Aborigines Safety Society in 1902, for educated Ghanaian citizens, and not westernised Africans, committed to the best of a Republic with a revered and ethereal civilisation. Whilst our indigenous establishments must meet up with internationally suitable benchmarks, our enlightenment programme must be devised on the foundation of Ghanaian exceptionalism.
I cannot emphasise more than enough this is Ghana’s Space Era. This is the generation of rationalism, freedom of thought and enquiry.
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The writer, Vincent Djokoto, is Enterprise Govt and Columnist. Twitter/Instagram @VLKDjokoto
