Data forms the basis for planning, decision-making and research. A school should couple its duty of imparting knowledge to students with a continuous cultivation of a culture of self-renewal and regeneration. The goal is to avoid falling into the trap of institutional degeneration and complacency. School should strive to remain agile and responsive to the ever changing landscape while also accommodating institutional memories. A learning institution should learn from multiple streams and this includes historical data. Learning should not be anchored only on current winds of change or the dictates of the moment but should also necessarily entail going back in time to draw wisdom and inspiration from glorious historical precedents.
Sometimes institutional pride or better still absence of humility makes it almost impossible for institutions to rewind the hands of time with the sole purpose of seeking direction and wisdom from luminaries who had laid the institutional cornerstone. In the context of management of public basic education schools, many schools that are currently less thriving, once had a robust pedagogical and school governance architecture. Moeng College, presently a shadow of its former self, had had a glorious academic past.
