Students Challenged To Embrace Reformative Education

THE Founder and President of All Nations Education, a US-based non-governmental organisation, Mr Joshua W. Daneshforooz, has challenged Ghanaian students to embrace the type of education that not only awakens the mind but expands their love for humanity.

According to him, such holistic education would help them to embrace the human calling to love one’s neighbour as one’s self.

Mr Daneshforooz who made the call during the presentation of US$2700.00 to the University of Ghana in Accra at the weekend said the donation was part of funds of a joint scholarship programme between All Nations Education and the University of Ghana, Legon.

The scholarship programme was instituted by Mr Daneshforooz’s Santa Barbra-based organisation for five needy but brilliant students studying for various under graduate programmes at the University of Ghana.

Mr Daneshforooz indicated that the scholarship scheme evolved out of the type of education he received at Westmont College in the US, which taught him to get beyond the academics and seek to explore and understand the needs of others in the society.

“Our organisation was inspired to institute the scholarship programme as part of a vision to impart the type of knowledge I acquired in college to people throughout the world. All Nations Education believes that our world needs the type of education that teaches not only the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, but also how to live a good human life,” he said.

The beneficiaries who were carefully selected by the University of Ghana’s Financial Aid office according to All Nations Education’s criteria would also be assigned to various mentors who are expected to impart wisdom about their personal and professional lives.

“The All Nations Scholars are also expected to undertake some community service and mentor pupils and students at the secondary and primary levels in deprived communities of the Ghana, to keep the mentorship chain running,” he stressed.

He said his yearning was that All Nations Education would contribute to the development of leaders through rigorous academics and life-long mentorship.

He said the world would become a better place if we had leaders who seek not to satisfy their egos but instead believe that the greatest leaders are selfless servants.

“Imagine what Ghana and the entire world would be like if we had leaders who seek not to satisfy their egos but instead who genuinely believe that the greatest among you shall be your servant,” Mr Daneshforooz asked.

Mr Daneshforooz said his Santa Barbra-based organisation would provide US$1080 to each of the five beneficiaries of his programme every academic year.

He said the University of Ghana was chosen for the joint scholarship programme because he and his Ghanaian colleague, Mark Jay Ofori, wanted to partner with a prestigious academic institution in West Africa, such as the University of Ghana.