Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has lamented the state of affairs in the current education system where students are reluctant to ask questions of their teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister, who doubles and Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, believes that reluctance must be done away with if fully rounded children relevant to society are to be nurtured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He disclosed in an address that in all the times that he has visited schools back home and decided to teach, none of his students had ever asked a question after he had taught and asked if they had any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI go to schools upon schools and I speak with the students and when I finish speaking with them, I say who has a question for me? No hands goes up. A hand is yet to go up in all my encounters in Ghanaian classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have tamed the children, we just want them to write down what we tell them, at the day of the exams we say you are the best student the country has ever known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat kind of education system cannot transform Ghana, that kind of education system is not going to get us critical thinking individual especially as we are in the 21st Century, Education 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asserted that it is only through critical minded students that poverty can be fought and defeated, advocating further that Ghanaian and African school should gravitate towards what he called, an \u201cassertive curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA curriculum that empowers the African child to ask questions and to challenge the status quo. Respectfully within the African context, but not a curriculum that tells the African to be quiet and not say anything when the adult is speaking,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was speaking on Tuesday, September 20, at the United Nations Educational Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the event was held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpeaking on behalf of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Launch dubbed \u201cRewiring education for people and planet Report,\u201d I pointed out the need for a new way of working that reimagines education in a win-win partnership with the entire 2030 Agenda,\u201d he posted on his social media handles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n