Young teachers were yesterday challenged to opt to work in remote areas, while students were urged to take every opportunity to study as the world demands well educated citizens.
Speaking to hundreds of students and teachers at a rally in the National Park yesterday to observe Education Month, President Donald Ramotar resisted singing and instead read the lyrics of “Education is Essential,” a song by the Mighty Sparrow, to emphasise his point: “Go to school and learn well//Otherwise later on in life you will catch real hell//Because without an education in your head// Your whole life will be all misery and you better off dead//There is simply no room in this whole wide world//For an uneducated little boy or girl…”
He said Sparrow’s words exemplify what the Ministry of Education has to prepare students for. The singer, he said, saw that education is not only a nice thing to have so that you can read and write, but is
