Educationist and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of Educate Africa Institute, William Boadi has urged educators to help reform the country’s educational sector by introducing methods to make education more practical, and less theoretical.
According to him, the Ministry of Education should to take up the challenge to revise the schools curricula.
“This is one of the problems we are facing as a country and I believe if our educational system is geared towards a more practical one and exposes the students to hands on work and not just reading of books and answering questions, we would go a long way to improve our educational system and help develop this nation as a whole. It’s about time we need to teach our children to succeed, and stop teaching them to fail; the difference between the Western world and Africa is that in the western world they teach children to succeed, but in Africa we teach children to fail and that is the poor development we find ourselves in” he said on Plan B FM ‘Ebaanosen’ with Bohyeba Afiyie
He added that the ministry must try and reform the curricula and take more seriously the infusion of more practicals in order to produce graduates that would solve national problems.
“In 2018, the students that emerged winners of the National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ) returned from an international competition in Portugal and lamented that the educational system placed more focus on theories, instead of practical approaches. They were far behind in so many areas because their competitors knew so many things they didn’t know because they were more practical with what they did. They can only explain and describe everything but cannot apply anything,” he stated.
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