Enugu Begins Transition To Smart Green Schools

Enugu State  has began the modulation from existing superior and inferior secondary schools to Smart Green Schools, Governor Peter Mbah’s signature inaugural successful the state.

Mbah successful a broadcast to usher successful the caller epoch yesterday morning, explained that the displacement from aged schoolhouse structures and learning by memorisation to world-class infrastructure and experiential learning had go imperative to equip Enugu children with cognition and skills to vie successful the planetary economy.

He  stressed  that “we are nary longer a authorities waiting to beryllium saved – we are a authorities shaping the aboriginal connected our ain terms.”

“Africa contiguous is the youngest continent successful the world. More than 60% of our radical are nether the property of 25. By 2050, our colonisation volition scope 2.5 billion, and 1 successful each 3 young radical connected world volition beryllium an African. This is simply a stark reminder that our aboriginal volition beryllium built by young hands.

“This is not conscionable a statistic; it is simply a summons. It means that the destiny of African nations rests connected what we nurture successful the minds and hearts of our children.

“If we rise them good and permission them opportunity, erstwhile they inherit tomorrow; erstwhile they ain it; they volition signifier it and support it. If we neglect them, nary magnitude of slogans volition prevention us,” helium stated.

Mbah emphasised that his administration’s slogan, “Tomorrow is here,” was not conscionable a catchphrase for Enugu, but “a covenant with that future,” adding that Africa’s sovereignty rests connected the prime of its quality capital.

“It is the designation that the sovereignty of our state, of Nigeria, and so of Africa, volition beryllium determined by the spot of our young radical – their quality to deliberation critically, to innovate, and to enactment with integrity.

“Our sovereignty begins successful the classroom. It begins with however we take to invited the kid into the world. And this takes time, attraction – and investment,” helium said.

Mbah noted that acquisition and resilience were his passport to a beingness of possibility.

He, however, maintained that Enugu children did not person to spell done specified ordeals connected relationship of economical circumstances, insisting that acquisition indispensable beryllium treated arsenic a nationalist right.

“At location and astatine school, erstwhile a assemblage receives and educates each kid arsenic a full quality being, it is akin to nationalist work astatine the deepest level.

“The habits a kid rehearses – attention, curiosity, patience, empathy, self-belief – go the civic habits of our culture. A schoolhouse time shaped by rhythm, responsibility, and attraction softly trains the tense strategy for self-regulation and the societal musculus for cooperation.

“Those capacities aboriginal amusement up arsenic little violence, stronger communities, and a nationalist quadrate that tin tolerate disagreement without tearing itself apart.

“The school, then, is not conscionable a service; it is simply a commons wherever the quality colony renews itself,” helium added.

Noting that the Smart Green Schools correspond the astir idiosyncratic and transformative task of his leadership, helium explained, “They are not lone schools – they are my committedness of a caller society; my covenant with the Enugu child. In them, Tomorrow Is Here finds its truest form.

“Each of the 260 schools is designed arsenic a implicit ecosystem for learning. ‘Smart’ means integrating technology, captious thinking, and problem-solving into each subject. Each has astir 25 digitally-connected modern classrooms, ICT centres, robotics and AI labs, e-libraries, and spaces for experiential learning.

“They are ‘green’ due to the fact that they person renewable vigor sources and astute farms wherever children plant, grow, and harvest, learning agriculture not arsenic mentation but arsenic practice.

“And they are inclusive. Every kid is provided with escaped uniforms, books, meals, and tablets. Each schoolhouse has its ain aesculapian clinic, reliable h2o systems, and assemblage halls that anchor the schoolhouse successful colony life. Housing for teachers is on-site truthful that the champion educators unrecorded wrong the communities they serve, ensuring continuity of attraction and commitment.

“Smart Green Schools are not conscionable an concern successful classrooms, but successful the psyche of our people. The habits a kid rehearses, of curiosity and collaboration, go the civic habits of the culture. A procreation raised successful schools of innovation volition physique an system of innovation. A procreation raised successful classrooms of fairness volition make a politic of justice.

“So, those buildings are beyond specified bricks; we spot successful them children eagerly looking guardant to the future.”

The politician further stated that portion a kid could walk done six years of schooling and inactive beryllium constricted to memorising theories connected a chalkboard nether the aged strategy of learning, successful the caller model, th...