‘A community without science is doomed’
Without mathematics and science, we cannot develop the technology.
The Nelson Mandela Readers Club Library from Protea Glen Secondary was raising funds towards revamping the school science lab recently.
The hosts invited successful women Phyllis Malope and Leticia Visser to acknowledge and honour their effort in bringing change in the society.
This is part of their approach in tabling their ideas to their guests with the hope that they can see eye to eye on the importance of keeping the laboratory functional.
School teacher and Nelson Mandela Library Readers Club CEO Sepadi Choeu explain that the best way to honour Madiba’s legacy is through education, hence it will never be wrong to develop an African child, but credit must be given to those people who strive for excellence and building the better communities.
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“It is my pleasure to successfully have this event today where we are honouring these “women of substance”.
Their positive contributions to society cannot go unnoticed; hence we have to honour them on behalf of even honouring Madiba’s legacy.
Choeu continued to say that it would be a great pleasure for them to get their schools’ lab necessary equipment as it can also improve the schools’ results.
“We are living in a technological world, we need our own engineers, technicians and doctors and other specialists, but to make that dream come true, we need to provide these learners with all required resources.
“We are appealing to the media, corporate, foreign government and anyone who can come on board to assist PGS in assuring that the laboratory tale is not just a talk but a reality,” he explains.
Jose Nascimento indicates that in a future run, a community without science skills will be nothing.
“Without mathematics and science you cannot develop technology and t is important for the learners to get a solid foundation in those fields.”
“It is also important for learners to experience science in its living form and they can see experiment performed before them.
It is a lot better to visualize and experiment than reading a textbook which only tells you the conclusions of mixtures in science,” he says.
Grade 11 maths and science learners Lungelo Dialemetsi and Noluthando Majozi say that having a well functional laboratory can have a real positive impact on the school.
“We learn and understand things differently, but we believe that the combination of practical and theory can accommodate every learner. It can even develop an interest in doing these subjects and make everything simple,” they concluded.
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