THE EDITOR, Sir:
EDUCATION HAS been widely identified as the prime necessity for the social and economic development of our country. We have to match who we educate with the needs and nature of our country; tapping into the passions and enthusiasms of our people and also fuelling them. Education needs to be relevant and dynamic, engaging students in effective new ways. This may require certain revolutionary changes, which will take great political will, at both the national and regional level.
Human resource enhancement should be approached in a very aggressive and creative manner. Failure to make education work effectively for the country, expresses a flaw in our political administrators. A flaw characterised by failure to think outside the box coupled with lack of imagination. Þ
We need to provide a relevant educational system, which will allow people in communities across Jamaica to realise their dreams, within their own environment, without feeling the need to find opportunities elsewhere. There is so much building we have to do in Jamaica, and it simply does not make sense, that when we have people educated in the country - circumstances drive them out. Þ
It's hard to think, that with so much to be done to build Jamaica, that with the tools and resources available, there is still wide-scale unemployment.
We need an education master plan, well researched, dynamic, un-political and wide-ranging; involving the input of all...educators, entrepreneurs, tertiary institutions, students and teachers.
Within the mind lies great power, it is a sin, to deny that power and defeat the purpose of the beholders' existence.
I am etc.,
Mark Pike
62 Ward Avenue
Mandeville, Manchester
Xtraboy2001@hotmail.com
Via Go-Jamaica
