Most courses studied in schools are needless. Tell the danger when the mosquitoes bite someone and their prevention. What is the essence of learning all the parts of mosquitoes and ants to the student? It would have been better to study the parts of goats, cattle or farm birds.
It is the same methods of teaching leading to some civil engineers who have PhDs but cannot fix their car batteries. In the early days students were compelled to learn BODMAS and others which never brought any change to the Ghanaian economy. What will profit an art student learning 3x-6y, find t? In which bank o financial institution will the staff be compelled to such an equation?
It is time for the GES to design a curriculum that will be more important, and profitable for the result. The doom of Ghanaian education is the politicians who do not have any educational background but become ministers and mess up the curriculum. This happens when there is a change in every government.
It is time to study simple things that have more relevance than learning parts of cockroaches. Why not teach the types of soil that will help in the plants’ growth?
In a real sense, the magazine fitters and electrical are more important than most of the Ghanaian civil engineers who cannot fix a broken bicycle.
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