Parents have duty to educate children at an early age: Official

PARENTS have a duty to ensure their children have good education and better lives in the future, an official says.
Kabwum early childhood education (ECE) coordinator Nonzong Zialon said discipline, hard work and receiving an education was the key to developing the young generation.
He challenged parents in Morobe to prioritise their children’s education and welfare so they would reap the rewards later in life.
He said learning and acquiring skills meant people could do more with their lives and contribute to the district, province and nation.
He said communities with educated people tend to prosper and see more development than others.
ECE education reform director Haring Quoreka challenged parents to send their children as young as three into early childhood schools to develop them at an early age.
“Straight after breastfeeding a child should straight away breastfed by education so that formal early education becomes part of them as their brains develop.
“Nothing else should be encourage at that early age by parents but education,” he said.
Quoreka commended the Bomu village community for taking the initiative to build a two-in-one classroom to facilitate the rollout of the province’s ECE programme in Kabwum since 2016.
He said putting up the building showed that the parents were serious about the education of their children.
Bomu-Umpindic teacher-in-charge Sambele Michael said most of the materials used to build the classroom were provided by parents.
“They provided the timbers, the walls from bamboo (thatch), and nails with other materials.”
She said the roofing iron was provided by a member of the community who was a businessman.