Our Story

 

Upon visiting Ghana and seeing a number of children selling goods on the street during school hours, founder, Mzaza Titilayo (Janet Jones Preston), soon found out why. Some of the families could not afford to pay their young one's education fees and therefore did not enroll them in school. Feeling compelled to do something, Mzaza decided to create a school for the families who needed it most. After refinancing the loan on her home in 2004, and enlisting the help of her son, Imole Mosi Chukwu Oyeh, Mzaza purchased the land that is now The People’s School for Positive Education. Under the support of Mzaza, private supporters, and the operational leadership of Oyeh, the school has blossomed from having a modest three classrooms and grades, to an educational center holding 260 students with hopes to expand!

 
 

"...the right kind of education will produce leaders that the country needs..."

Our Philosophy

 

The mission of People's School for Positive Education is to synthesize African culture and history, philosophical consciencism, Nkrumahism, and higher order thinking skills into a dynamic process of positive education. We strive to build our students and staff to their highest level of skill and conscience.

The system of positive education is designed to prepare students for completion of university-level education and leadership in Ghana and Africa, based on principles of egalitarianism, collectivism, and humanism. Positive education also rejects white supremacy and African inferiority to assert the equality of all humanity and the dignity and integrity of the African personality. Through this ideology, students and staff are developed to be "so sensitive to the conditions around them that they make it their chief endeavor to improve those conditions for the good of all".

Nkrumahism, the consistent ideological policies followed and taught by Kwame Nkrumah, which are contained in his speeches, theoretical writings and stated ideas and principles, is used to guide students and staff to serve the masses of people toward an African Union government and a socialist society. It teaches the empowering message that the working masses should own and control means of production and distribution, while opposing foreign domination, exploitation, and neo-colonialism.

 

 Our Students

99% of PSPE graduates have Senior High School certificates.

Of the 51% who have completed Senior High School or are still attending Senior High School, many of those students are preparing financially to continue in university.

48% of the 141 People's School graduates are either in university or have completed with degrees, with 17% having degrees and 31% currently enrolled in university.

Of those 17% with university degrees, many of them worked at the school for two or three years before enrolling in university to obtain degrees. There are three teachers presently working at the school who taught for years before going to university to get degrees, and returning to PSPE to teach.

(data as of August 2023)

Our Team

The progress we achieve is made possible by the collective effort of our teachers, staff, parents, community and our young leaders.

Teachers & Staff Members

Imole Mosi Chukwu Oyeh
Headmaster

Mzaza Titilayo (Janet Jones Preston)
Founder