TEACHER TRAINING
Since the problem now faced not only by Ethiopia but
by the entire world as well as a result of the shortage of teachers looms
large, We feel especial satisfaction in opening teachers’ training schools. The
setting up of training schools for teachers is one of the things that enable a
country to stand on its own feet.
An increase in the number of teachers’ training schools as well as the attainment
of a stage of self-sufficiency as regards teachers is a task
which We constantly endeavour to achieve and one in which We have pinned Our
hope with respect to Our country’s march to improvement and progress.
It is the duty of teachers to direct the
thought and outlook as well as mould the character of their students. For this
reason, the responsibility of teachers in training student-teachers aimed at
the future progress and development of Our country and the proper upbringing of
students could hardly be underestimated.
In the age in which we are living
especially when different philosophies of life are competing against one
another, the responsibility of teachers has been found to be even more
exacting.
Your guide should therefore be the
apostolic saying: study and examine all but choose and follow the good. Our
forefathers have succeeded in passing down a free and independent people
determined to safeguard its liberty by shedding its blood. Ethiopia is the
country in Africa which has kept Ge’ez and Amharic with an alphabet of its own.
We have also laid a firm foundation for the freedom, prestige and happiness of
the present generation in the fields of education and development in accordance
with the conditions now existing.
Those who will be serving the people in
future should follow this same path in endeavoring to develop their country and
maintain her freedom. This is one of the main responsibilities of teacher.
As it is Our constant concern to produce
teachers in abundance and thereby speed up the educational advancement and
progress of Our beloved people, We are very happy to see so many students in
this school being trained as future teachers.
We
express Our heartfelt thanks to the United States Government which, having
realized Our great concern for the spread of education, rendered a financial
help in the construction of this school. Ethiopia and America have a
long-standing friendship and this building is one of the many manifestations of
this feeling of friendship, mutual help and co-operation.
We
have earlier explained the extent to which the responsibility of teachers go.
You should always bear in mind that it is your duty to see to it that your
country solves the current problem of a shortage of teachers. A teacher is no
mere instructor of letters; he should be one who has properly ordered and
controlled his manner and character and be an exemplary and who shoulders a
heavy responsibility. May God the Almighty make you leaders as well as followers.
Oct.
15, 1962.
Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile
Selassie - page 79 -
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