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Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state on Tuesday said provision of new school buildings across the state is in fulfilment of his administration’s promise to provide functional education to children in the state.
Governor Aregbesola, who spoke in Ilesa during the inauguration of Ilesa Government High School, noted that a good basic education fulfils the definition of literacy as the ability to read and write.
“We are therefore developing the new literate man, a man not just for himself but for the collective, who sees his own existence and value in light of other members of the society.
“We have seen the future. Before our very eyes, advances in science and technology are changing our world and in the foreseeable future, we will see that those who are not well educated will be onlookers and will have no place in it”, the governor said.
According to him, the new schools are capable of training the new minds for the new world driven by technology, saying any society without this vision is going to be backward and dependent when this future arrives.
He explained that the eleven new high schools which his administration are providing would
each graduate 11,000 students every year and in the space of 10 years, the schools would have turned out 110,000 first class students.
“As a government, we have played our own part very well and we will do more if the need should arise. It is now left for parents and teachers to do their own part. Parents should provide the right examples to their children at home.
“They should let them realise the importance of education and that there is no reliable future outside of it. They should therefore prepare their children for school at the right time, help them dress properly and acceptably and prevent them from truancy,” Aregbesola concluded.
BOLA BAMIGBOLA, Osogbo
