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Letter to the Editors
Korlu M. Okwumuo (Liberia)
In response to the article «The Role of the Humanities in Post-Conflict Societies, or Do They Need Poems Here?» by Patricia Bloem, David Klooster, Asone Wollor, James Harris, and John-Paul Noah published in Vol. 9 issue 2, 2008.
Dear Editors,
I would like to add my voice to the discussion of what needs to happen to put the broken pieces together for Liberian education. The scarcity of qualified teachers and the mass failures of Liberian students to pass exams have motivated me to advocate for the training of teachers.
Our unqualified teachers must be trained and given the right tools for quality education for the benefit of our students. Arrangements should be made to have unqualified teachers participate in workshops and seminars during every long vacation in order to upgrade themselves. The two rural teacher training institutes at Zorzor and Kakata must be strengthened and equipped in order to encourage teachers to enroll for training.
In order to keep our teachers in classrooms and in the teaching field, we also ought to consider the question of incentives and attractive salaries, which I believe, will encourage more teachers to enroll in the teacher college and other teacher training institutions.
Every aspect of the Liberian society has been affected by the devastating civil war. Most of our teachers have died, some have fled the country, and others are refusing to return to their native homes to teach because of low salaries. In order to put the broken pieces together, we must train or teachers, we must give them encouraging incentives and attractive salaries, and we must encourage our university professors to help train our teachers during the vacations.
Korlu M. Okwumuo
University of Liberia.
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