Cudjoe Should Listen To Sydney On Education

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• Adam Obuotabiri 10 years ago

  I began reading this jaundiced opinion piece to prepare my mind for arguments regarding why Franklin Cudjoe is wrong in his stance and why there is anything from a Sydney for him to learn from.
  
  Unfortunately, Okoampah sudd ...
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  I began reading this jaundiced opinion piece to prepare my mind for arguments regarding why Franklin Cudjoe is wrong in his stance and why there is anything from a Sydney for him to learn from.
  
  Unfortunately, Okoampah suddenly brought in this part midstream of his thoughts:
  
  "He may have served as an elementary schoolteacher of Arithmetic or even Algebra and Trignometry at some early point in his life, but however good he might have been, this parochial and basic experience does not make the cross-dressing Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia any remarkable authority in the discipline of education and pedagogy.
  
  Besides, the issue at stake here is one for actively engaged public-policymakers and not the General-Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). The ruling party and the central government are two separate entities. If Mr. Asiedu-Nketia wants his views to carry weight with educational policymakers, let him publish them in an academic and/or professional journal and stop childishly exchanging words with teacher-trainees who are mostly young enough to be his own children and even grandchildren."
  
  What a disjointed presentation of ideas? Why confuse your readers this way, Okoampah? Do you think logically at all? Such a nincompoop parading as an academic is a danger to society. Ofuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

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• Pumpuni 10 years ago

  "No wonder between 1976 and 1981, when I attended St. Peter's, we were easily the best secondary school in Ghana for most of those years." Where did you get this from? Please cite your reference (s).

  "No wonder between 1976 and 1981, when I attended St. Peter's, we were easily the best secondary school in Ghana for most of those years." Where did you get this from? Please cite your reference (s).

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• Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

  Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe knows good and darn well teachers in training are not paid allowances where he lives or anywhere in the USA where most state governments can afford to throw good money after bad ideas; obtaining a classroom ...
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  Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe knows good and darn well teachers in training are not paid allowances where he lives or anywhere in the USA where most state governments can afford to throw good money after bad ideas; obtaining a classroom education is a choice and not a conscription exercise. And just because government did such things in the past does not justify their continued existence. In any nation and or government choices are made daily particularly more so when monetary resources become limited or scarce; Ghana should be no exception. Of course Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe did not make the argument to continue with tradition when his heroes were busy plotting coups. If looking up to ways of the "masters" for accepted norm is the way to go (we've done it each time we cannot think or find our undergarments caught in a knot) then why should this be any different? All classroom taught subjects are not equal, Dr. Kwame, and it's about time you came around to this fact just as not all PhD acquired credentials are worth a hill of beans.

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

  Then it ought also stand to reason that Ghanaian MPs are paid on the basis of the economic and social status of whom they represent, or not so?
  
  Come again and stop propagating this comparative nonsense about academic relat ...
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  Then it ought also stand to reason that Ghanaian MPs are paid on the basis of the economic and social status of whom they represent, or not so?
  
  Come again and stop propagating this comparative nonsense about academic relativism.

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

  I have referenced the article I was responding to: Go and read it and you will understand why Gen. Mosquito's name appears in this article.
  
  In 1976, PERSCO had the best WAEC results, both "O" and "A" levels. This is common ...
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  I have referenced the article I was responding to: Go and read it and you will understand why Gen. Mosquito's name appears in this article.
  
  In 1976, PERSCO had the best WAEC results, both "O" and "A" levels. This is common knowledge. Until I left PERSCO in 1981, our class had its papares canceled, no student had failed at the GCE "O" Level.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

  Prof, you forgot to mention the discipline Father Glatzel ("Owudo")also instilled in the school in addition to good Science and Arts libraries, the hard work of tutors and students. This was the headmaster who expelled the so ...
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  Prof, you forgot to mention the discipline Father Glatzel ("Owudo")also instilled in the school in addition to good Science and Arts libraries, the hard work of tutors and students. This was the headmaster who expelled the son of military head of state's from the school (General Kutu Acheampong's son) for bad behaviour. That has never happened in Africa but the German was a no nonsense man. When it was prep time, the whole school compound was in absolute silence, particularly when Owudo went on his rounds one could hear a pin dropped down.
  
  Again, apart from the general school library there were separate Sixth Form Science and Arts libraries for the use of Sixth Formers (other students used it by permission or as a guest of a Sixth Former). I was one of the two students Sixth Form Arts Librarians.
  
  Prof, I now know that you were in Form Two when we were in Lower Six (1977-1979). I have no idea if Owudo is still alive but those of us from Cape Coast schools who did our Sixth Form at Persco found the management of the school to be too dictatorial (Owudo, Assistant Headmaster ("Kooko")and the Senior House Master (Akongolu"). In fact, they disliked students from Cape Coast because we challenged their dictatorial tendencies.
  
  There is no doubt that St Peter's was and I believe is still one of the best secondary schools in Ghana and not only between 1976 and 1981.

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• LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

  By the way, I was also taught by Father Glatzel at a different Catholic secondary school after he left St Peter's. It was in Father Josef Glatzel's lessons that I fell in love with Physics. Though, he didn't have a great soun ...
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  By the way, I was also taught by Father Glatzel at a different Catholic secondary school after he left St Peter's. It was in Father Josef Glatzel's lessons that I fell in love with Physics. Though, he didn't have a great sounding voice but his science teaching skills and impact on experiments in science laboratory was excellent.
  
  With the perception that Physics is a difficult subject, Father Glatzel made the learning of Physics very simple with his teaching techniques. He encouraged us to work on our own projects/experiments in the school's well-equipped science lab. This impart critical thinking rather than just going through the motions of known outcomes. I am indebted to Father Josef Glatzel for teaching me Physics.
  
  Thanks for the memories, Dr Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe.

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• kutsii 10 years ago

  Oluu Okoampa, now that we know u are not a teenager, pls don't write nonsense but sense in ur articles. Okoampa, u are an oldman, who is a rascal and a rogue. REPENT.

  Oluu Okoampa, now that we know u are not a teenager, pls don't write nonsense but sense in ur articles. Okoampa, u are an oldman, who is a rascal and a rogue. REPENT.

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