Journalist urges youths to preserve traditional knowledge

Education

JOURNALIST Scott Waide has challenged youth of this generation to record and preserve traditional history and knowledge from village elders while they’re still alive.
Waide is concerned there will be a knowledge gap in the near future if this is not captured now.
Referring to the late Sir Pita Lus, a founding father for Papua New Guinea, Waide said Sir Pita died not passing on a wealth of treasured knowledge of Papua New Guinea’s history and why the country should remain together.
He said while this was the job of a journalist, the responsibility had shifted to users of technology platforms such as mobile phones, recorders and internet.
“Young Papua New Guineans need to go back home and talk to our knowledge keepers,” Waide said.
“Knowledge keepers are our elders who hold rich history and traditional knowledge which is still relevant in this day and age.
“When elders dies, they bring with them this enormous amount of unrecorded wealth of knowledge.
“The problem is that we have not valued it enough to record it.”
“If we don’t look after our story, we will lose a special part of us and we will really struggle to fill this knowledge gap in the future.
“Record stories for your children so they too can learn.”