Zimbabwe will soon send teachers to South Korea for training in mind set learning skills after the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Youth Foundation (IYF) in Harare today.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Paul Mavhima, at the signing ceremony said the past visit by his predecessor Dr. Lazarus Dokora, which IYF fully funded, made the department responsible pupils learning appreciate the direct link between mind set education and the key aims of the revised curriculum. The new curriculum seeks to develop in every learner critical thinking and problem solving.
“The MOU we are sign today aims at improving cooperation in mind set education as well as in the area of agriculture where our teachers will be developed in special techniques through IYF and from which every province will select a number of teachers for short term training in Korea every year fully funded by IYF,” Mavhima said.
“IYF will have access to spread mind set education to our teachers and learners as they set up base in Zimbabwe.”
The Education Minister went on to say the philosophy of mind set education which developed Korea to be a first world nation is you are the thoughts which you act on.
“We need to incalculate in our young act only on positive morrally driven thoughts away from drugs, immorality, early marriage, bullying of others, but be driven by good thoughts of ubuntu that is ‘I am because you are,'” Mavhima said.
“Without any resources Korea was also to put a past punctuated by invasion from other countries behind it to export oil when they did not have any to export finished electrical cables and cars when they did not have a single mineral and among many products exported famous products such as cellular phones.”
“Let us fill the minds of our young with only good safe thoughts to give on room to negative destructive mind sets. This is the quickest way to develop our young away from desperation, terrorism and doom.”
Besides producing the popular electronic brand, Samsung, South Korea, also home to Hynix Semiconductor, second largest chipmaker in the world and motor producers Hyundai and Kia.
The Minister also revealed that negotiations are at an advanced stage to make land available for the ITF to build a centre from where they will be headquartered as is their practice through the world.
“IYF has groomed some of the world’s best classical musicians and it is through this MOU that one of the schools in Bulawayo will offer classical music to stuidents in that province in the very near future,” Mavhima went on.
“Another school in Harare will offer classical music through efforts from the fiscus.”
