Otabil: Ghana’s education system not knowledge-based

The problem with Ghana’s education system is that it is not knowledge-based, General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr Mensa Otabil has said.

The motivational speaker and teacher told his congregation on Sunday November 9, 2014 in church that: “Knowledge is not about accumulation of facts and figures in order to pass an exam; knowledge is about being observant and learning and taking note about what happens around you.”

“That is the problem with our education system because we are supposed to be producing knowledge through our educational system but our educational system doesn’t produce knowledge because it is not based on observation and learning,” he observed in the third series of his teaching on wisdom.

He bemoaned that Ghana’s education system is “based on memorisation and regurgitation; memorise and pour. Chew, pour, pass, forget, so a lot of people go through school and don’t acquire knowledge because they are not observant and they don't learn anything, but they pass their exams and get good grades.”

According to him, many Ghanaians go through the education system and still come out “ignorant” because the system is not knowledge-based.

“…If we are going to produce knowledgeable people in the country, we have to shift from learning textbooks; and learning teachers and lecturers notes and regurgitating it to them, to observing.”