gemmanyah
10-23-03, - 12:22 AM
Education In Eleuthera
One of the most progressive assets of the modern developing world is education. Through the brilliance and the ordinary application of scientific theory and other theories in other disciplines in Education countries develop and thrive in industry.
A great society can always be recognized by its insistence that education comes first and is developed along with society. The great societies created by the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Mayans all have their unique educational contributions that were discovered through inspiration and are still applicable in their fields of endeavour today.
Recently the medical achievements of the Americans in separating and creating new life are worth note and can be achievements for we Eleutherians to commemorate and work toward.
Eleutherians, in fact Bahamians have not yet discovered the power of Education and I feel that not enough of our GNP is spent developing this important resource. Too often we prefer to invest our hard earned national dollars on the spectre of Junkanoo and elaborate island holidays.
To date the only forms of education available in the island of Eleuthera are these:
1. Primary School Education
2. Kinder garden Education
3. Private Apprentice training
4. Minimal College level night time courses
The fact is that there is a great need for a full time college level institution on the island of Eleuthera. This would serve several purposes:
1. It would eliminate the need for students to have to study abroad in certain areas of education.
2. It would allow continued education for unemployed persons and persons needing retraining in new career areas.
3. It would allow the generation of new jobs at the institution.
4. It would breathe new life into our islands giving us a new feeling of inspiration and hope for the hard future ahead.
5. It would reorganize our thinking and make the possibility of returning home a smart one for many Eleutherian students and professionals.
The value of Education to a society is so important and so valuable that its availability to a society is a necessity. I do not see why Out Islands like Eleuthera do not at least have an institution like BTVI(Bahamas Technical and Vocational Training Instituation). A Vocational training Institution present on the island and available to those students who value vocational training as opposed to full time college degrees.
The fact is that if Eleuthera is to grow at all with a view to establishing a permanent long lasting society that will be present and assist in the growth of the island for generation after generation higher learning must be an integral part of that process.
These basic needs of modern developing societies like Eleuthera need to be met in order to eliminate the massive brain drain that has been typical of our global migration over the past 100 years. The fact is that Eleutherians and Bahamians are brilliant when it comes to discovery through education. We have brilliant lawyers, doctors and tradesmen. The problem is that they live elsewhere outside of Eleuthera. Many still are attracted to living in the Bahamas but the trend has been their continued migration to the larger, more lucrative industrial first world.
Our nation is filled with wonderful examples of professional persons working and contributing on a national and international level in many professional disciplines like Law and Medicine. Many Eleutherians aspire to such fields of endeavor but find the necessity for travel far too expensive and are eliminated from the ranks of these achievers.
I encourage the government of the Bahamas to work diligently over the next five years toward the establishment of at least two community colleges and one central vocational institution for the island of Eleuthera in order to combat and eliminate the unthinkable trend of international and interisland migration which has plagued our societies for far too long.
The impetus for the long term planning and implementation of stable institutions which will allow our people to be permanent and confident in the knowledge that they are receiving as much of an education at home here in Eleuthera as they can receive in any institution abroad. This is a necessity component and must come forthwith in the near future.
There is no other way to stop the alarming trend of the migration of our most brilliant and most able contributors to the further development of our Out Island societies. It can be done with prudent and unprejudiced thinking with a long-term view to national sustainability and must be seen as a necessary plan to combat the competition which will be brought on by the implementation of such international initiatives as the FTAA and other global efforts by the major industrial countries.
Tell me, do you see the need? How can we permanently put an end to inter-island and international migration of our most valuable resource, our people? We need them to return home and establish along with us a permanent sustainable, competitive economy in order to successfully compete with the remainder of the world.
We must eliminate the need felt by our precious people to migrate in search of bread to other more hostile environments. We must not stop developing our educational plan in Eleuthera until we can attract Legal professionals and Medical professions to migrate to Eleuthera for institutional training instead of the reverse.
The potential for agricultural and acquicultural development in the way of institutions in islands like Eleuthera are enormous. We have the environment and the necessities that go along with such developments and beyond that we have the urgent need to see such institutions develop in order to further protect and preserve our own natural resources.
There is much work to do friends. We aren’t there yet by any measure. We are tired and hungry but we must continue on with a positive view to the future and continue to correct our massive mistakes and our vision. How we as leaders of a country allowed the escape of the most progressive of our people, our resources, that we need so well continues to astound me.
Onward, Upward, together to a brighter, better Bahamas in which we all choose to live. With the right vision of the future our tomorrows can be bright.
One of the most progressive assets of the modern developing world is education. Through the brilliance and the ordinary application of scientific theory and other theories in other disciplines in Education countries develop and thrive in industry.
A great society can always be recognized by its insistence that education comes first and is developed along with society. The great societies created by the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Mayans all have their unique educational contributions that were discovered through inspiration and are still applicable in their fields of endeavour today.
Recently the medical achievements of the Americans in separating and creating new life are worth note and can be achievements for we Eleutherians to commemorate and work toward.
Eleutherians, in fact Bahamians have not yet discovered the power of Education and I feel that not enough of our GNP is spent developing this important resource. Too often we prefer to invest our hard earned national dollars on the spectre of Junkanoo and elaborate island holidays.
To date the only forms of education available in the island of Eleuthera are these:
1. Primary School Education
2. Kinder garden Education
3. Private Apprentice training
4. Minimal College level night time courses
The fact is that there is a great need for a full time college level institution on the island of Eleuthera. This would serve several purposes:
1. It would eliminate the need for students to have to study abroad in certain areas of education.
2. It would allow continued education for unemployed persons and persons needing retraining in new career areas.
3. It would allow the generation of new jobs at the institution.
4. It would breathe new life into our islands giving us a new feeling of inspiration and hope for the hard future ahead.
5. It would reorganize our thinking and make the possibility of returning home a smart one for many Eleutherian students and professionals.
The value of Education to a society is so important and so valuable that its availability to a society is a necessity. I do not see why Out Islands like Eleuthera do not at least have an institution like BTVI(Bahamas Technical and Vocational Training Instituation). A Vocational training Institution present on the island and available to those students who value vocational training as opposed to full time college degrees.
The fact is that if Eleuthera is to grow at all with a view to establishing a permanent long lasting society that will be present and assist in the growth of the island for generation after generation higher learning must be an integral part of that process.
These basic needs of modern developing societies like Eleuthera need to be met in order to eliminate the massive brain drain that has been typical of our global migration over the past 100 years. The fact is that Eleutherians and Bahamians are brilliant when it comes to discovery through education. We have brilliant lawyers, doctors and tradesmen. The problem is that they live elsewhere outside of Eleuthera. Many still are attracted to living in the Bahamas but the trend has been their continued migration to the larger, more lucrative industrial first world.
Our nation is filled with wonderful examples of professional persons working and contributing on a national and international level in many professional disciplines like Law and Medicine. Many Eleutherians aspire to such fields of endeavor but find the necessity for travel far too expensive and are eliminated from the ranks of these achievers.
I encourage the government of the Bahamas to work diligently over the next five years toward the establishment of at least two community colleges and one central vocational institution for the island of Eleuthera in order to combat and eliminate the unthinkable trend of international and interisland migration which has plagued our societies for far too long.
The impetus for the long term planning and implementation of stable institutions which will allow our people to be permanent and confident in the knowledge that they are receiving as much of an education at home here in Eleuthera as they can receive in any institution abroad. This is a necessity component and must come forthwith in the near future.
There is no other way to stop the alarming trend of the migration of our most brilliant and most able contributors to the further development of our Out Island societies. It can be done with prudent and unprejudiced thinking with a long-term view to national sustainability and must be seen as a necessary plan to combat the competition which will be brought on by the implementation of such international initiatives as the FTAA and other global efforts by the major industrial countries.
Tell me, do you see the need? How can we permanently put an end to inter-island and international migration of our most valuable resource, our people? We need them to return home and establish along with us a permanent sustainable, competitive economy in order to successfully compete with the remainder of the world.
We must eliminate the need felt by our precious people to migrate in search of bread to other more hostile environments. We must not stop developing our educational plan in Eleuthera until we can attract Legal professionals and Medical professions to migrate to Eleuthera for institutional training instead of the reverse.
The potential for agricultural and acquicultural development in the way of institutions in islands like Eleuthera are enormous. We have the environment and the necessities that go along with such developments and beyond that we have the urgent need to see such institutions develop in order to further protect and preserve our own natural resources.
There is much work to do friends. We aren’t there yet by any measure. We are tired and hungry but we must continue on with a positive view to the future and continue to correct our massive mistakes and our vision. How we as leaders of a country allowed the escape of the most progressive of our people, our resources, that we need so well continues to astound me.
Onward, Upward, together to a brighter, better Bahamas in which we all choose to live. With the right vision of the future our tomorrows can be bright.