Editor's Voice

By Miguel Vieira

Parents are urged to encourage their children to master
English and Mathematics

August is Afrique’s education month. K-12, post secondary, and college students will return to their respective venues of learning to get their minds nurtured with knowledge that will enable them to successfully function in this increasingly small and competitive global village. Particularly, for the upcoming academic year, parents of elementary and middle school students are urged to encourage their children to do their best to master two very important academic subjects, English and Mathematics.

Elementary school students, for instance, who master the English and Mathematics contents of their respective grade, will very likely succeed in other academic areas like natural sciences, social sciences, history and art, in the subsequent higher stages of their academic journey.

Additionally, such hypothetical students would also very likely do well in College should they master the fundamentals of English and Mathematics starting at the first grade. This strategic educational start is, we believe, the best method a parent can employ to insure their children remain competitive in a world where first rate competency in two languages, English, the de-facto global language of commerce, and Mathematics, the universal language of the sciences, are crucial to success.