Lawrence Boakye

Educating the Person: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives Lawrence Boakye

Education is meant to form the person in such a way that he can

see the world in a proper way, and be well positioned to make it a

better place for himself and for others. Education should make the

person a learning person, developing and equipping him with the tools

and abilities to deal with realities of the present and of the future.

To educate means to teach how to think rather than what to think,

to improve the mind so that the person can think for himself rather

than loading the memory with the thoughts of other men. Education

is about laying down specifi c foundations that will help the person

to have dominance and at the same time reverence for the world.

The new perspective of education I suggest in this book will prepare

the young person for the unpredictable future, help the person to

acknowledge the power of his own mind, and how to decipher what

is good for his intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth.