‘Africa yet to anchor curriculum on 4 pillars of education’

A United Nations Educator and Human Right Defender, Dr Ugochumar Ibeakanma, has expressed worry over the inability of African countries to anchor their school curriculum on the four pillars for complete education as stipulated by the United Nations. He listed the four pillars as learning to know; learning to do; learning to live and learning […]

A United Nations Educator and Human Right Defender, Dr Ugochumar Ibeakanma, has expressed worry over the inability of African countries to anchor their school curriculum on the four pillars for complete education as stipulated by the United Nations.

He listed the four pillars as learning to know; learning to do; learning to live and learning to be.

Ibeakanma who stated this in Onitsha, Anambra State, said the absence of the last two pillars in school curriculum was the reason for friction in societies and why man was not living well with his fellow humans.

“People are marginalised in their families, by their tradition and economic constraints; and as such not living their lives as they should.

“It is our hope to make greater number of Nigerians more effective in the society thereby, making civic governance less complicated through our programme in rural communities across the country,” he said.

He therefore urged stakeholders and governments at all levels to adopt the platform to educate the people on applied ethics and morality.

Ibeakanma, who is president of Foundation, Ethics and Moral, Social Justice Trust International, in association with the United Nations charter, said the organisation was also distributing copies of the Nigerian Constitution translated in English, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and Pidgin as well as the human rights books to further enlighten the citizens.