The Head of Department (HOD) at the Bolgatanga Technical University in charge of Industrial Art, Dr. George Nangpaak Duut has cautioned parents to desist from discouraging children who demonstrate their talents at the infant stage in their various homes.
Dr. Duut who was speaking at the launch of the first-ever, Bolgatanga Technical University School of Applied Science and Art- SASA celebration sends the caution to parents.
He said the era of seeing academics or if you like book long people as more intelligent and important in society is gone.
“Let me warn parents through this paper to desist from discouraging children who demonstrate their talents at infant stages at their home as follows:
- Desist from dispersing kids when they gather to use empty milk things to learn cookery.
- Desist from beating up children who collect clay to make models of images they are familiar with.
- Desist from branding kids who show utmost intelligence at infancy as witches and or wizards.
- Desist from beating up kids who make toy vehicles with milk tins. For fear of hurting themselves, rather wash the tins and pebbles for them.
- Desist from beating up children who scribble on your walls, rather ask them to tell you what they are doing and you can encourage and finds a substitute for them to build on.
- When you see kids making models of architecture, ask them to describe them rather than beating and sacking them from there.
- Desist from condemning children who show interest in drawing, rather encourage and challenge them to draw you as many times as they can to perfect the talent.
- Stop rebuking them as stupid.
- When you see them connecting ropes to other objects, saying they are wiring their rooms, allow them and when they finish, ask them to show you how it works.
- Desist from camping your kids and gluing them watching cartoons, rather challenge them to make the cartoons they see using found objects.
- Under no circumstance should you shutter any vocation/hands-on activity a child will show the interest of begin to do, by you the parent.
Dr. Duut, further advised Ghanaians not just to be consumers of products, but should rather make themselves producers in the shortest possible time.
“I wish to take this opportunity to urge the admissions office of this University to study and understand the CTVET results grading system in order to place applicants that are seeking admissions to be placed on their equivalent levels of the academic structure. A misinterpretation of the grading system will be tantamount to a denial of appropriate placement”.
He challenged students in the field of Industrial Art, Hospitality, Medical Lab, Statistics, and Liberal Studies to be innovative, creative, and business-oriented when they leave the University.
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