By Enock Okong’o
The Board of Management Chairman for Kenyenya Secondary School Dr. James Mbeche, has appealed to the National Government Community Development Fund (NG-CDF) office to consider the completion of a hall they started in the school five years ago.
He said that the multipurpose hall is causing the school management a lot of worry because they are not able to accommodate the ever increasing number of students.
Speaking to education stakeholders at Kenyenya town, he said that the hall was meant to host a library for enhancing proper storage and reading of books provided by the government through the Ministry of Education.
He asked the local leaders to put their political differences aside and join hands towards development education.
The chairman thanked the government for supporting free education to both primary and secondary schools and asked the parents to appreciate by supplementing the government’s effort by providing their children with basic writing materials.
Dr. Mbeche who is also an avid reader, asked school principals and teachers to instill the reading culture in learners as it supports and encourages them in a wider way and improves their perception in life.
He asked the library custodians in schools to be at the forefront in the advocacy on improving the reading culture to enable the students develop the will to read.
“Our children should be taught to conceptualize ideas rather than merely cramming them like simpletons,” he said.
He reminded teachers to keep on consulting the libraries to research and refresh their minds, and build on notes they made in the previous years to keep them relevant to the ever evolving education systems.
The extensive reading he said helps the learners and teachers to increase their memory, intellectual discipline in addition to shaping them into the likeable members in society.
Dr. Mbeche who is a mathematics expert told the teachers to induce the kids to embrace the reading culture at their early ages to enable them interpret their surrounding in conformity to the goals of education in the country.
