The Director-General for the Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Michael Boakye Yiadom has charged teachers in the country to serve as exemplary educational mentors to their pupils through their actions and way of life.
According to the educationist, students learn a lot through observations, thus learn much from teacher's character and actions and often not through the directions teachers give them.
To this, he implored educators to be self-discipline in other to have students learn well from them as the role models they ought to be.
Prof. Michael Boakye Yiadom made this assertion in an interview with Sompa News Eric Annan on Wednesday at the 75th anniversary and 3rd speech and prize giving day celebration of the Efutu M/A Basic School in the Cape Coast Metropolis in the Central Region as the guest speaker.
The ceremony which garnered astute personalities across the Region was celebrated on theme, "proud past, bright future: celebrating excellence and nurturing a Ghanaian child through quality education- the role of stakeholders."
Mrs. Evelyn Efua Asmah, Headmistress of Efutu M/A Basic School bemoaned that private developers have over the years encroached portions of the school land and beseeched appropriate quarters to seek the redress of the situation.
Boys Prefect of the school, Richard Ekow Adom Arthur on the infrastructure inadequacy of the school and other technological needs like computers, he appealed on stakeholders and philanthropists to come to the aid of the school to enhance its present condition.
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