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Education
is a vehicle for cultural promotion - Baiden-Amissah
Tamale, Sept. 3, Ghanadot/GNA - Mrs. Angelina
Baiden-Amissah, Deputy Minister of Education, Science and
Sports, has stressed the need for the education system to
inculcate in the youth appreciation and love for the arts
and the promotion of Ghanaian culture.
She said programmes had been created in the school
curriculum to provide avenues for students to develop their
skills, while they acquire knowledge that would enhance
their future intellectual and social development.
Mrs. Baiden-Amissah was addressing the 7th Senior High
Schools National Festival of Arts in Tamale on Tuesday.
She spoke about the role of arts in nation building and said
there are examples of nations such as Germany Japan, Europe
and Nigeria that rebuilt after calamities because of the
potency and resilience of their arts and artistes.
“I am calling on you therefore to let your partisan feelings
yield to patriotism through arts. Our festivals will mean
nothing if they are not translated into reality”, she said.
Mrs Baiden-Amissah appealed to teachers in senior high
schools to explore, experiment and find out how best they
could teach subjects under the umbrella of culture in order
to inculcate in the children the right cultural knowledge to
help them grow up to become responsible citizens.
Mrs.Benedicta Nana Biney, Deputy Director General of Ghana
Education Service, called for the development of a
maintenance culture and told students to desist from the
unhealthy practice of littering the environment, smoking and
engaging in immoral behaviour.
She appealed to tutors to add value to their students by
providing them with skills.
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Northern Regional Minister, said
recent technological advancements had posed a lot of
challenges and this had led to the adulteration of the
national culture.
He said it was in this light that those entrusted with the
education of the youth needed to ensure “the revival of our
culture.”
GNA
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