Knowledge is power, Sir Julius tells Utu Secondary graduands

Education

KNOWLEDGE is power, more so today than ever before, New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan said.
Sir Julius gave his speech during Utu Secondary School’s 52nd graduation ceremony – it was also the school’s 11th graduation for their grade 12s.
“I think education is the single most important thing to guarantee a prosperous future for Papua New Guinea and all Papua New Guineans,” he said.
“With education, we can stand up to anyone in the world.
“We can be full members of the international community.”
Students were encouraged to become valuable members of society.
“You have the skills to help your community, to help your province and country,” Sir Julius said.
“You are becoming people who are the foundations of our future and we are depending on you.
He said technology has developed education today and urged the students to use the internet wisely to retrieve information to enhance their personal knowledge.
“If we want to advance in mining in the province, we need to be educated enough to change the Mining Act in our province and make it fair to all the landowners, the province and the country,” he said.
“Our people in the past did not know the idea of how mining laws worked in the rest of the world.”
Sir Julius said the provincial government had invested in education to empower his people to become global citizens.