There is a serious need for communities to start working on projects to produce top-class individuals. They need to produce high calibre individuals characterised by courage and creativity instead of hankering after comfort and security.
Communities must produce people imbued with a gallant spirit of risk taking and community service and not self-perpetuation and hollow showmanship. They must produce people who understand that knowledge is not only the best possible pathway to prosperity but also that knowledge is the best possible platform for sustaining prosperity.
They must work hard to produce people who love and pursue knowledge for its own sake and understand that if the quality of their knowledge is poor, the ruthless world we live in will relegate them to the most menial and disempowering of occupations. Communities must work hard to produce more people whose abilities go beyond the functional literacy required to earn a salary.
They must work hard to produce well-rounded individuals who are technically, emotionally and intellectually balanced and can find the wherewithal to achieve their dreams irrespective of what obstacles lie in their paths. It is from these people that communities will get their academics, entrepreneurs, managers and leaders of all types who will one day return to invest in their communities.
It is wrong to think this critical work of helping to shape lives has to wait till young people enter big organisations to start employment. Communities need to be assisted with resources to start this work as early as possible so that they can shape and refine their future leaders and champions to the best possible standards for the benefit of the entire society.
Gibson Sakong
Executive Chairman – Montshepetja Academy
2 Comments until now.
Destiny is no matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved!
I CAN NEVER DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOU JUST STATED. WE, THE YOUTH, MUST BE INTRODUCED TO OUR PROPOSED AND PROSPECT CREERS.
I REMEMBER ONCE WHEN Mr. SAKONG ASKED ME WHAT I WANT TO BE, I TOLD HIM I WANT TO BE AN INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGIST. HE ASKED ME AS A PSYCHOLOGIST WHAT DO I FIND WRONG IN HIM AND HIS DOINGS. THAT WAS WHEN I REALISED THAT I HAVE TO BE EVEN MORE INVOLVED IN THIS CAREER THAN I WAS BEFORE HIS QUESTION.
THIS HAS GREAT BENEFITS, THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR AT VARSITY, BUT, WITH THE AID I GOT FROM Mr. SAKONG OF PUSHING ME TO LIVE LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIS EVEN THOUGH I HAD NOT YET ENTERED UNIVERSITY, I AM EXCELLING FAIRLY WELL FOR A FIRS YEAR ASTUDENT.
LET US, THE YOUTH, PUSH TO BE WHAT WE WANT TO BE AS SOON AS NOW.
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