Mrs Vesta Adu-Gyamfi, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Integrated Rural Art and Industry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged teachers to be conscious of the outcome of their work and have conviction to attain success in whatever they do.
Mr Adu-Gyamfi said as teachers, they must also be alive to their responsibilities and help shape the intellectual abilities and mould the behavioural traits of their pupils.
She was delivering a lecture on the topic: "Girl Child Education, An Essence For Education", the second in the series organised to mark the 80th anniversary celebration of Wesley College in Kumasi on Tuesday.
The theme for the celebration is "The trumpet Call".
Mrs Adu-Gyamfi said the topic was very crucial and most befitting in the nation's development where there was a clarion call for a positive change.
"Indeed, it is through the medium of education either formal or informal that the girl-child can be transformed and encouraged to contribute her quota to national development", she said.
She stressed that education of the girl-child should be a collective responsibility and as trained teachers, they have a role to play in the whole process of ensuring the rights and welfare of children.
"Education is the key to the development of any nation," she said, adding that it was the knowledge and skills so acquired when translated into practical application that could bring a change in national development.
"It is, therefore, my conviction that the most appropriate point in laying a solid foundation is at the basic education level where true formation begins and it is for this reason that teachers of basic education have a prominent role to play", she stressed.
Professor Alfred Kwabena Abaitey, Associate Professor and Head of Department of Pharmacology of the KNUST, who deputised for the Vice-Chancellor, called on the students to be humble and study hard to become useful citizens.
He urged them to go out, as role models in the communities where they would serve saying that education in any society should have three components, which were morals, pursuit of academic excellence and spiritual training.
Professor Abaitey called on all Ghanaians to fight for a societal change at all levels and stressed the need for the students to go out and make a difference.