[ 2012-07-01 ]

Let's create a meaningful educational system - Cardinal Turkson
Accra, June 30, GNA – His Eminence Peter Cardinal
Appiah Turkson, the President of the Pontifical
Commission for Peace and Justice at the Vatican
has proposed the establishment of a Catholic
education that enabled the Ghanaian to respond to
his vocation.

“Let us aspire after a Catholic education that
makes for creativity and productivity that
promotes human flourishing and integral
development on account of the non-absence of
ideas,” he said

Cardinal Turkson made the observation when he
delivered a public lecture on the theme: “A
Catholic Education for a Better Ghana” as part of
the 60th Anniversary of the Bishop Herman College
(BIHECO).

The school established on February 28, 1952 with
25 boys was named after Bishop Augustine Herman,
the first Catholic Bishop of the Keta Diocese. It
currently has a student population of 1,370.

He said the understanding of education dated back
to the ancient Greek Philosophers of wisdom and
the Christian commitment to learning took that
wisdom of the ancient Greeks and the married it to
Christ, the word and the wisdom of the father.

“The understanding of education and knowledge is
deeply embedded in the mission of Bishop Herman
College,” he said.

Cardinal Turkson stated that in the light of
discerned and discovered challenges, authorities
needed to formulate a form of Catholic education
that offers a solution to at least the main
challenges of human flourishing.

He noted that the world needed scholars who would
be able to seek, know and defend the truth, hence
a Catholic College must be the place in which the
encounter with the truth must take place.

He said creativity-driven Catholic education and
the partnership with Catholic institutions existed
to help address the problem of social poverty in
the presence of economic growth which was a
challenge to the vision of the encyclical Caritas
in veritate.

He said for current and old students to know about
themselves and the purpose of their lives at 60,
they needed to acknowledge and embrace their
origin and vocation.

Cardinal Turkson used the occasion to congratulate
the school for attaining 60 years in providing
quality education for national development.

Source - GNA

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