Books on self development launched

04-07-08
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TWO books, Who Wears the Crown and School Self Evaluation-A Tool For Academic Excellence, authored by Mr Anthony Yao Boafor, a retired educationist, have been launched in Accra.
According to the author, the books seek to develop the best qualities in the individual.
He said self evaluation was a critical analytic activity for identifying one’s strengths and weaknesses and taking measures to reduce weaknesses to the minimum in order to improve one’s performance.
According to Mr Boafor, Who Wears the Crown is an attempt to explore the dynamics of success or excellence, adding that there were many people who had achieved success or excellence in different spheres of human endeavour.
In an address read on his behalf to launch the books, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, commended the author for taking pains to share his thoughts and ideas with the younger generation.
He said the need for creating a generation with critical and enquiring minds could not be over-emphasised, saying that there were vast opportunities for attaining excellence.
He observed that self evaluation was one of the most critical activities which every individual had to embark on from time-to-time in a systematic way to ensure progress in life.
Mr Bannerman-Mensah said the issues raised in the book complemented, to a large extent, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports’ policy on quality education, and recommended the book to educationists.
He said Who Wears the Crown which captures some fundamental principles for attaining excellence, indicated that “the crown is never obtained on a silver platter” as there were mountains and valleys that needed to be overcome.
The youth, teachers and all workers in general could draw some useful guiding principles from this simple book. I recommend this book to all basic schools to serve as a supplementary reader, he stated.