As the days run into years and over, our rich culture as Ghanaians is
inevitably eroded in a gradual process. It was very disgraceful to see
a young boy pass by confidently without greeting the elders of the
community. It sometimes cast your thoughts back to the virtues of our
forefathers.
Being blatant on an issue as this is imperative because before the
inception of modernization, our communal values were vividly
displayed.
Being a tertiary student does not make you a degree or diploma holder
instead upon your successful completion and attainment of required
targets at the tertiary level. It must therefore be a role and a
responsibility to respect others who couldn't make it there. Do not
forget that our system of education does not give an ideal guarantee
of your success, you could also fail in your journey. Conditions at
the tertiary should not bar you from demonstrating to your fellow
peers and mates respect. The tertiary indeed do not teach you to be
discriminatory and give preferential treatment to your elders and
peers. Perceiving your friends to be late and totally failing in life
because they couldn't get the pedestal to continue their education to
the tertiary level depictst an incalculable ignorance on your part and
could be destructive to your personality. You don't actually know your
turning point and the "Samaritan" you couldt bump into @ that point.
I passionately admonish all students pursuing higher levels of
education to hold ont to the rich culture in extending courtesies and
respect to our deserving peers and elders unconditionally. Desist from
using tertiary institutions as a mask in your selfish and socially
distasteful exhibitions with your elders and peers. In the end you
make our elders feign enormous regret and pity imagining what
constitute tertiary education.
Distinguished traits that are displayed should not eschew respect for
your elders. If you must know, the knowledge we acquire from these
institutions will not vanish if we accord the needed respect to our
elders but could change the lives of young ones who will thirst for
such knowledge.
The conviction that you are a tertiary student and therefore you have
preferences in fulfilling the pertinent fundamentals of our rich
culture should cease and clamped down. Let's sustain the culture with
the knowledge acquired at the tertiary levels rather than destroy it.
Do not forget to greet the elders you come across, it is the right
thing.
Knust Writers Association.
Dennis Sarpong
BA Sociology III
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