Youth urged to embrace technical education

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 11 years ago

  Well done

  Well done

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 11 years ago

  Good Nana

  Good Nana

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• Mahmoud 11 years ago

  Technical education does not provide opportunities for massive corruption. And since we are all scrumbling for opportunities to deplete the coffers of the government and get rich quick, technical education is not an attractiv ...
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  Technical education does not provide opportunities for massive corruption. And since we are all scrumbling for opportunities to deplete the coffers of the government and get rich quick, technical education is not an attractive option.

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• Kofi 007 11 years ago

  When u acquire a skill through Tech Education, you hardly become greedy and corrupt. The corruption canker is the reward from giving too much credence to 'ORAL' education.

  When u acquire a skill through Tech Education, you hardly become greedy and corrupt. The corruption canker is the reward from giving too much credence to 'ORAL' education.

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• godson summy addo 11 years ago

  YOUTH ARE ALSO NEEDED IN COCOA INDUSTRY. ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENTS BY LBCs IS A MAJOR DE-MOTIVATOR

  YOUTH ARE ALSO NEEDED IN COCOA INDUSTRY. ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENTS BY LBCs IS A MAJOR DE-MOTIVATOR

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• OKOE 11 years ago

  CHIEF, YOUR ADVICE IS WELL TAKEN AND IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. ALL THE CHILDREN OF GHANA CAN LEARN TO BECOME ALL WHAT YOU SUGGESRED AND GHANA WILL STILL BE BACKWARD OR HEWERS OF WOOD, WHY BECAUSE UNLESS THEIR ELDERS , THOSE THA ...
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  CHIEF, YOUR ADVICE IS WELL TAKEN AND IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. ALL THE CHILDREN OF GHANA CAN LEARN TO BECOME ALL WHAT YOU SUGGESRED AND GHANA WILL STILL BE BACKWARD OR HEWERS OF WOOD, WHY BECAUSE UNLESS THEIR ELDERS , THOSE THAT HAVE MONEY AND THE GOVERNMENT DO NOT SET UP THE NECESSARY AVENUES FOR THEM TO EXHIBIT WHAT TGEY HAVE LEARNT, THINGS WILL BE THE SAME. FOR EXAMPLE IF ONE STUDIES TO BE AN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER AND HE OR SHE IS NOT HELPED FINANCIALLY TO PUT HIS EDUCATION INTO PRACTICAL USES, HE WILL ROAM TGE STREETS WITHOUT ANY BENEFITS. WHAT ONE IS TOLD IS, YOU NEED CAPITAL TO SET UP ANY BUSINESS.BYOU ARE ALSO TOLD TO GET THAT CATITAL, IT HAS TO COME BY WAY OF BORROWING OR GETTING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO HELP. IF YOU COME FROM THE BACKGROUNG THAT I DID, GETTING THAT CAPITAL, WILL NEVER HAPPEN AND THE IDEAS OF THIS GRADUATE WILL COME TO NAUGHT. I AM SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE. DR. NKRUMAH, HAVING SENSED THIS PHENOMENON, USED GOVERNMENT RESOURCES TO START CERTAIN INDUSTRIES, AND SOON THEREAFTER, THE SLAVE MASTERS START THE THREAT AND THE BRANDING HIM AS A COMMUNIST OR SOCIALIST STARTED. I JUST LEFT HIGH SCHOOL WHEN WE BECAME INDEPENDENT AND SAW EVERYTHING UNFOLDING. AS LONG AS OUR POLITICIANS WILL NOT HELP THE ORDINARY GRADUATE TO FIND HIS OR HER CALLING BUT STEAL THE STATE FUNDS AND USE IT TO BETTER THEMSELVES, NO AMOUNT OF ANYTHING WILL COME OUT OF THE GRADUATES GHANA PRODUCES. CHIEF, THE RICH PEOPLE IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES USE THEIR RESOURCES TO SET UP THE INDUSTRIES WITH THEIR MONEY AND EMPLOY THESE GRADUATES TO EXPERIMENT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THEY ACQUIRED. IN GHANA AND MORE SO AFRICA, OUR RICH PEOPLE WILL HIDE THEIR STOLEN STATE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND AND DIE WHITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING ABOUT IT, CHIEF, TELL THE RICH PEOPLE OF GHANA INCLUDING YOURSELF TO HELP THE NEW GRADUATES WITH TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE TO THE BENEFIT OF THE GRADUATE HIMSELF/HERSELF AND MOTHER GHANA. JUST LOOK AT MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE AND ASK YOURSELF WHY ARE WE WHERE ARE AND THE ANSWER LIES IN DECEIPT AND GREED BY OUR LEADERS AND POLITICIANS.

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• OKOE 11 years ago

  pardon my typos.

  pardon my typos.

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• NON-ALIGNED 11 years ago

  I have said it time and time again!!!!! Our education system does NOT WORK! And will NOT WORK!!! oNLY If we..............
  
  It's about time we rethink our entire education system in our country and more importantly on our co ...
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  I have said it time and time again!!!!! Our education system does NOT WORK! And will NOT WORK!!! oNLY If we..............
  
  It's about time we rethink our entire education system in our country and more importantly on our continent - AFRICA!!!
  
  Why do we continue with this brainwash education system which has kept us in the doldrums for years………. All we do is to teach our children in someone else’s ‘lingo’ and expect to be like them???
  Unfortunately, our understanding of ‘Education’ is all about perfecting other peoples ‘powerful tools’ (language) based on collecting knowledge without the basic understanding of its origins and values.
  
  It is basically all about aping other humans’ lifestyle, totally contrary to our cultural heritage and good traditional beliefs.
  
  Our so-called ‘Education’ system is deeply-rooted in the concept of reading books (in someone else’s languages and of their experiences totally alien to ours), memorizing them again, again and again, regurgitating them out of the ‘memory box’ (that is, if one has one) unto exam papers, get so-called good grades and eventually attain a degree/masters and forget everything after the process.
  
  Another sequence for this kind of education system is called – ‘chew’, ‘pour’, ‘pass’ and ‘forget’ – which gives no room for any form of analytical thinking that stimulates the COMMON SENSE (the gift from GOD), bestowed upon every human being.
  
  I would honestly like to seek answers to the following: What were Africans educating themselves in, in the past before English or the French languages?
  
  Which African language did all the scholars from all walks of life (from and beyond our continent), who achieved greatness from the first university in the world, located in Timbuktu – Mali were educated in?
  Why was there an explosion of African Civilization which stretched from the North and South of the Great Nile River before the English language?
  Why don’t we look to our past achievements to shape and secure our future as a continent, just as any other nations have done?
  Why the choice of a language IMPOSED on us by the colonialists - who had enslaved us and suppressed the minds of our people?
  Why the choice of a language, wholly alien to our African cultural heritage, good traditions and values?
  Why not an AFRICAN LANGUAGE to educate ourselves to carve up a future and a proud identity for us and OUR unborn generations?
  What have we Africans achieved……… since embarking on educating ourselves in suppressive languages that has bred inferiority complex towards the colonialists and other foreigners?
  
  I guess others may argue that, we should not re-invent the wheel that has already been created for us……….and my question is, have we ever made good use of that created wheel? If not,……then why????????????
  
  Please, please, please let's challenge our minds and reach a better way forward because history, if it’s anything to go by tells us that we are barking the wrong tree…….in the hope of being like the people we can never be…….just by aping around like them and speaking their ‘lingo’?
  
  These same people we are trying to be like, became who they are by the use of THEIR OWN ‘lingos’, correcting THEIR OWN mistakes and experiences within the confines of THEIR OWN environments and for the GOOD of THEIR OWN nations, by applying the basic principles bestowed upon us by The Almighty! DON’T WE GET IT????
  
  That is why in Ghana and Africa on the whole, we have doctors, engineers, scientists aping around like other people but, with NOTHING to show for, at the end of it all……We have lost the plot! If education was all about speaking other people’s ‘lingo’ then, why do we bring the Chinese – who speak no word of English to Ghana, to construct our roads etc. VERY TECHNICALLY INCLINED IN THEIR OWN 'LINGO'........RIGHT?
  
  GOD BLESS GHANA! AFRICAN FOREVER!

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