MONROVIA – The proprietor of the Carolyn A. Miller High School Mr. Karrus Hayes has described teachers as the greatest people on earth who should always be honored for their sacrifices in the development of the nation.
Mr. Hayes who is also the chief executive officer of Vision Awake Africa Development said teachers play major roles in the development of a country and as such, ignoring their contribution will be a disservice to them. He said “the world we live in today, if it hasn’t been for teachers I tell you the truth nobody is going to know anything.”
Karrus Hayes made the comments recently when his school, the Carolyn A. Miller High School honored several of its teachers for their services in molding the minds of Liberia’s future generation.
“For country like Liberia, our teachers are sacrificing a lot. If you see how much the teachers make, someone who is providing knowledge to the nation, you will get very discourage as the result people who really want money, they will not go in the teaching field,” Hayes said while distributing a bags of rice and cash to deserving teachers.
He lamented that the Carolyn A. Miller High School which operates on a tuition free basis has seen the hard work of these teachers. “We feel that we need to encourage them, we need to motivate them to work harder because the children they are developing today, they are the most important resources Liberia.”
Some twelve teachers in total were honored and certificated at the event. The school has an enrollment of about 400 students.
Hayes used the occasion to call on school administrators and parents to see the teachers as valuable assets in the country because they are the ones making lot of sacrifices for the development of Liberia. “The children in school today, if the teachers don’t make those sacrifices our student will not compete with others in the world,” Hayes said.
Describing teachers as the greatest people on earth, Carolyn A. Miller High School’s proprietor says “the greatest scientist in the world he or she was taught by teachers, even the footballer today, they go to school to learn, so the teachers are role model.”
He wants the Ministry of Education to support institutions in Liberia that making efforts to develop children and strengthen its monitoring and evaluation arm.
Speaking on behalf of the honorees, Teacher J. Jefferson Yond said program serves as a motivation and inspiration to him and his colleagues adding that he to be honored.
Yond said although there are lots of challenges in the classrooms, teaching is a calling for him and he is passionate about it.
“I loving to make impact I am not in it for money,” J. Jefferson Yond said while urging students to be better people in society.
He called on his colleagues in the classrooms to put time in teaching, terming it as the foundation of every country. “Don’t see it as money making place by accepting bribes that will undermine the educational sector of the country,” Yond warned against.
He also wants increment in the educational budget and the full decentralization of education.