By Edward Dankwah
Accra, Oct. 23, GNA – Mr Jonas Sowah Quaye, the Leader of the Planning Committee of the 1973-year group, Osu Presbyterian Old Students’ Association (OPOSA), has called on students to see self-discipline as a tool for personal development.
He said self-discipline empowered people to be focused, without which they would not be able to achieve their expected goals as students.
Mr Quaye said this during the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1973-year group of OPOSA on the theme, “Presbyterian Secondary Education: A catalyst for Professionalism, Progress and Prosperity,” in Accra.
The Association also donated 15 desktop computers to the school,
Mr Quaye said self-discipline went hand in hand with self-denial, manners, and respect for others, indicating that acquiring these traits might help them achieve their purposes in life.
“As students you must know the time to report to school, the time to study, the time to play or have fun and the time to leave the confines of the school,” he said.
He indicated that education was critical, such that when one was well-educated, there would not necessarily be the need to wait for white collar jobs, but they would rather exhibit the knowledge gained into entrepreneurial activities.
Mr Quaye said the initial idea of the association was to construct a water storage facility, and that due to interactions with authorities of the school, there was urgent need for desktop computers.
“We are hoping that this will not end with just the celebration but going forward, we will be able to come back to make more contributions,” he stressed.
He advised the students to be law abiding to ensure academic excellence and not exhibit immoral acts.
Mr Vincent Esoah, the Headmaster of Osu Presbyterian Senior High School, said there were some levels of indisciplinary acts among some students, stating that management was doing all it could to help curb the menace.
He said the 1973-year group adopted the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratory of the school and renovated it and installed four new air conditioners in the laboratory to facilitate academic progress.
Mr Esoah said the adoption of the ICT laboratory should not prevent the other year groups, institutions and individuals from donating equipment, computers and accessories to the ICT laboratory and the E-Learning Centre.
He said currently the school had 578 and 746 students in forms one and two respectively, saying the increase in enrollment was among other factors attributable to the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy, which had made education accessible to all.
Mr Esoah expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the 1973-year group of OPOSA led by Ludwig Annang Hesse, the President, for all the things that the association had been doing for the school.
GNA