Big-Brother model, perfect for school development

24 Nov, 2017 - 00:11 0 Views
Big-Brother model, perfect for school development Big-Brother Moses Mukoyi (right) and Mr Shepherd Kureya: Behind them the heavy duty digital printer

The ManicaPost

Morris Mtisi
LAST week Friday, November 17, 2017, a beautiful, but not-so-common model of school development was showcased between St Faith’s High School and St Faith’s Primary School.

Two brothers demonstrated how not only possible it is, but also how easy it is for one neighbouring brother to come to the aid of another to uplift hope and image for the sake of good neighbourliness and shared school development.

Almost all the high schools I know have a primary school a spitting distance away. The high school is often more colourful and majestic in whatever way compared to the primary school. The high school often silhouettes the primary school with more life and brightness against the often refugee-status primary school sharing the same name; except one is secondary and another primary. The common picture is often one of a miserably striking contrast between two educational islands; one minding its own business and both divided by visible stark differences in everything.

The school heads hardly talk to each other, except if they drink together, only always about whom is buying beer on the day. The teachers are visibly divided by a nauseating self-judgment which places one group above the other and an artificial self-importance defining who is more learned than another.

Last Friday, Mr Moses Mukoyi, school head St Faith’s High did the pleasantly unexpected by publicly attending the primary school’s first Speech and Prize- Giving Day in more than 30 years.

He spoke confidently and glowingly about Mr Shepherd Kureya’s willingness to consider the high school as a big brother symbolised and championed by the titled, upright, worthy, noble, high-minded and generous Mr Moses Mukoyi.

But it takes a willing horse to drink when it has been taken to the river, does it not? Executive humility! That is what Mr Kureya is made of. And it is admirable too.

This majestic big-brother show was witnessed by Cyber Security-Makoni Central Member of National Assembly, Cde Patrick Chinamasa and philanthropic Kinoca Minolta-Zimbabwe chief executive officer, Mr Lawrence Chisango who showered Little St Faith’s with gifts for prizes which included a wheel-chair and a heavy-duty digital colour printer.

As if this was not enough, Mr Chisango promised the humble primary school a strong and lasting relationship that could see the little school quickly rise into a small giant. More than anything it was the hope he planted on everyone’s heart.

Cde Chinamasa promised to give the school 100 bags cement if they dig the foundations for a boarding school top on the development card of the school.

The import of this beautiful story of big-brother support and extraordinary common compassion for another is not only exemplary, but a special model of compassion and kindness worth emulating.

This writer challenges school heads to take a leaf from Mr Mukoyi and Mr Kureya who have taken their teacher-student history farther in the direction of big-brotherhood in school development.

It was Maya Angelou who said: “The desire to reach the moon is ambitious-the desire to reach hearts is wise.”

Mr Lawrence Chisango of Kinoca Minolta Zimbabwe and Mr Moses Mukoyi reached Mr Kureya’s heart and the hearts of his teachers, parents and pupils. What a model of big-brother friendship exhibited through your philanthropic hearts!

Last week’s story on two occasions referred to Cde Patrick Chinamasa as Patrick Chamisa. I kindly ask him to accept my personal apology for the embarrassment this mistake might have caused.

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