Ghanaians urged to adopt culture of shared responsibility

Larteh Akwapim (Eastern Region) - Ms Rosemund Ayeko Toto, an educationist, has called on Ghanaians to stop apportioning blame whenever there is a failure in the education system and adopt a culture of shared responsibility.

She explained that the academic achievement of any student is affected by factors in the home, the school and the community and all the three settings need to work closely together.

Ms Toto was delivering a paper on: ''How to improve upon educational standards at Larteh'' at a Larteh Akwapim Millennium Congress on Sunday.

She called for the establishment of a community library to encourage students to read and a science resource centre with a computer room for the benefit of schools in the area.

Ms Toto said, ''the current educational system only tells the child where he or she can go but does not tell the child how to get there''.

Every society, therefore needs to have a vision and an action plan for the new millennium to enable its children to achieve not only enviable academic standards but also high civic performance, she said.

Dr Henry Appiah, Principal of Koforidua Polytechnic, called on chiefs and opinion leaders of Larteh communities to make teachers posted to their communities feel at home.

Such a gesture, he said, would serve as an incentive to the teachers to give of their best to improve the standard of education in the area.

Dr Appiah said ''our forefathers saw the need to do this by being courteous to teachers, presenting them with foodstuffs from their farms and even gave them free accommodation.

He said, it is disheartening today to see parents who benefited from past teachers, apart from their failure to show charity, sometimes pounce on teachers at the least opportunity.