Give teacher a better pay

THE entire education system revolves around educating a child in the classroom.
This is the main objective. Schools are nurseries, just like a coffee nursery.
The child’s cognitive power rejuvenates and grows in the classroom, like the coffee seed rejuvenates and grows in the nursery.
The teacher shapes and molds the cognitive growth and development of the child like the nursery minder waters and guards the coffee seedling from insects and parasites.
The child’s cognitive growth matures and grows from stage to stage, or school grade to grade, to high school, to college and university and on to the labour market to work the economy and the country.
In the child nursery at elementary to primary grade to high school to colleges to university, the teacher stays guard and helps the child development to manhood.
The teacher’s job ends when the young men and women go off the school system and into the labour market, both formal and informal.
This is the story of the teacher.
Then comes along the school inspector who anchors, mentors and supports the teacher in the teaching and deliverance process.
The inspectors signs off the subject content, sits behind the classroom to watch how the teacher is teaching, to hear the exact words coming out of the teacher’s mouth, to ensure and improvise teaching behaviour modifications, all for quality assurance and quality teaching.
Both the teacher and the inspector are critical conduits and roles for the cognitive development of the child.
They are very important creatures of the entire education system the world over.
In Canada, the teachers are the highest-paid people. A parliamentarian in Canada once asked on the floor of Parliament why teachers were paid better than those in other professions, and the prime minister answered: “Do you question the people who taught you?”
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill should revolutionise the labour
market in this country and make teachers and the inspectors the highest paid people.
Like we won’t go wrong with coffee, we won’t go wrong with human capital development too.

Yapi Akore
Kundiawa, Sp