Education must make students critical thinkers — Anis Haffar

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Joe Turkey 10 years ago

We produced critical thinkers until Jerry Rawlings murdered his way into power. With his revolutionary cadres, they introduced a system that produces graduates "reflecting our economy". The decision makers were butchers and b ...
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We produced critical thinkers until Jerry Rawlings murdered his way into power. With his revolutionary cadres, they introduced a system that produces graduates "reflecting our economy". The decision makers were butchers and barbers. They cut pre-education from 7 years to 3 years but managed to send their own kids t go through the same educational system they said were not good for the country. Hypocrites! Now our educational system produces a mass of good-for-nothing, semi-literates, unemployable graduates while they continue to send their children to foreign schools.
KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

Yes Joe Turkey, you are right on that. JJ Raw...sh..it education system is the down fall of Ghana now. Thank God I did not fall a victim to that system. Critical thinking in every stage of education system is the backbone of ...
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Yes Joe Turkey, you are right on that. JJ Raw...sh..it education system is the down fall of Ghana now. Thank God I did not fall a victim to that system. Critical thinking in every stage of education system is the backbone of that country's development.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Nana Akuffo Addo and his NPP credible, dynamic and selfless politician, when
said our nation needs free SHS in our country so as the future and majority people of this nation can be very swift thinkers and perform creditably ...
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Nana Akuffo Addo and his NPP credible, dynamic and selfless politician, when
said our nation needs free SHS in our country so as the future and majority people of this nation can be very swift thinkers and perform creditably to help build our nation and move the nation to paradise. what did we the civilized, selfless and patriotic citizenry hear fron Mahama and his NDC bunch of incompetent fools, free education is not good, meanwhile he (Dramani Mahama) had his education free from kindergarten, even Flagbearer and President he had it free, Ghanaian People, do you all out there see how selfish, incompetent and wicked Mahama and his NDC can be to our nation and the majority people of this nation.

This shows and proves that anybody who
supports the so-called political party, the NDC is a dangerous and enemy to the progress and the Security of this nation.
yanks 10 years ago

produced any real thinkers? most of the time in school is used to learn about foreign languages and cultures. we waste our time on european languages and presently even the arab and in the future the chinese languages. how ca ...
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produced any real thinkers? most of the time in school is used to learn about foreign languages and cultures. we waste our time on european languages and presently even the arab and in the future the chinese languages. how can you be a great thinke in another person's language and culture. mr educcator it is better to play with these gadgets to to waste one;s time on greek myttology, shakespeare, homer, chaucer and european philosophies. math and science are universal languages so the better people use their products the better.
yanks 10 years ago

when has ghana's educational system produced any real thinkers? most of the time in school is used to learn about foreign languages and cultures. we waste our time on european languages and presently even the arab and in the ...
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when has ghana's educational system produced any real thinkers? most of the time in school is used to learn about foreign languages and cultures. we waste our time on european languages and presently even the arab and in the future the chinese languages. how can you be a great thinker in another person's language and culture. mr. educator it is better to play with these gadgets than to waste one's time on greek mythology, shakespeare, homer, chaucer and european philosophies. math and science are universal languages so the more people use their products the better.
Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

My fellow Ghanaians, Joe Turkey & co. We have never produced critical thinkers. Yes, JJ contributed to the downfall of our educational system. The old system did not help us either. Shimoto mentioned CHEW & POUR, which techni ...
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My fellow Ghanaians, Joe Turkey & co. We have never produced critical thinkers. Yes, JJ contributed to the downfall of our educational system. The old system did not help us either. Shimoto mentioned CHEW & POUR, which technically means IMBIBE & REPRODUCE. Majority of students since time past have been chewing & pouring. One of the few things we chew & pour is kola, tiger nuts, etc.

In thinking critically, we need to ask ourselves why was History removed from our curricula? What I found out was serious! Apparently, our colonial masters were scared of some sort of payback with regards to the issue of the slave trade. When I was at New Hope School, I got to know how my ancestors were shipped and packed like sardines, where they were made to sleep in their feces, vomit, and urine, and how the females as young as 12 were raped by Rev. Father Dawkins who was the captain at the time. The year was 1445! So Joe Turkey & co, if you had committed such atrocities in your home town, would you have the courage to go back there and pretend to be that philanthropic? You will be chased away with sticks! But if you cunningly come through the back door by sending your relative to bring them canned food, wax prints, build schools, etc you can erase your filthy past by asking the chief of the village to pass a decree that your historical events be removed from the text books. After all, you built the schools! How many Ghanaians will discuss such issues with any of you? Please!

I set up a questionnaire for my daughter. Stupid questions and intelligent questions. Joe Turkey & co, my wife saw it as unnecessary! Some of the questions were, apart from petrol, why can't we put in any other liquid in a car? or, how come the people we see on TV cannot be felt or spoken to. My wife's brother paid us a visit whilst this session was ongoing and decided to send his kids over on weekends. Joe, I told him I'm very busy so no deal. He can also do the thinking!

Please notice how the term "Conspiracy Theory" has been slipped into universities all over the world. The idea is to make our university graduates to never think critically for themselves. They are to always rely on the newspapers which is mostly government controlled. What I mean is, if the government has formed a business clique by tampering with energy and in so doing selling generators, how many of us will think critically about this? Joe Turkey, please let's consider this. What will make me spend about usd 50,000 to buy a generator and keep it in my warehouse if I have no information that there will be a power crisis? Please take a trip to all those generator companies and check for yourself! Another one is, if ECG could create some magic by giving us uninterrupted power supply during the xmas holidays, how come they couldn't do same after that? I have put this across to dozens of my fellow Ghanaians. A few have thought through it and have gotten the picture.

So Joe, we have critical thinkers who have never been to school and have made it big here in Ghana. You and I know. No group of critical thinkers will form an association of "Unemployed Graduates!" No group of critical thinkers will organize a Twi speaking movie award event, and another, an English speaking one. Upon all the school they claimed to have attended, this is the outcome. I rest my case.
The African Patriot 10 years ago

I have to frankly say that, I was wow to read all the article until I recognised at the end that it is only about institutional education.

Ladies and Gentlemen, one does not need to go to school to become a critical thinke ...
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I have to frankly say that, I was wow to read all the article until I recognised at the end that it is only about institutional education.

Ladies and Gentlemen, one does not need to go to school to become a critical thinker. Of course, the course of our downfall planted by our colonial masters, although in the old days, it was loyalty and royalty that count much, but still our leaders at that time was able to think about our nation or tribes to defend it and it naturals resources. The ordinary people were not nearly allowed to generate this critical thinking skills. The worst think today is that even the leaders who must think outside the box have become lazy thinkers and booty lickers, using their titles for their selfish interest only. All these problems graduate from the colonial inheritance. This is what Dr. Nkrumah and Liman knew that they were strategizing to over come, but rather unfortunately, we had greedy people who make this progress a waste of paper. Rawlings part was the most heavy. Our cultures and traditions are also playing a fundamental part of this problem. Because for example what ever we do and does not make sense and it is from an elderly man, the younger one does not have the right to question it. And this is the course. We need change our mentality to become a working force for our nation. Institutional education could be bought, but nationalism, patriotism and mother love can not bought by anyone. To be able to generate this, we have to sacrifice to create wonderful jobs for the youth and old people. We have to learn to always say the truth, if we are dealing with our country men and women. Our leaders must have their to eyes on and ears for it national in what ever situation they are. Any seeable opportunity must be given to a Ghanaian first and if he mistreat it, he or she must be punished hard for the rest to see.

I suggest, the educationist must come deeper and not running the surface. Deep situation analytic must be done and solution must be found others wise the next generation will fall into the trap and merry go around become future reality.

God Bless Our Home Land Ghana And Make Our Nation Great And Strong!!!
Joe Turkey 10 years ago

You probably went to a mushroom school where you chewed and poured. I did not. I am not even sure what you are ranting about because you did not find it necessary to be concise. Critical thinking is neither in the old system ...
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You probably went to a mushroom school where you chewed and poured. I did not. I am not even sure what you are ranting about because you did not find it necessary to be concise. Critical thinking is neither in the old system of the so-called "chew and pour" (depending on what school you went to) nor a baseless system of producing carpenters and bricklayers for our economy. The solution was in developing the branch institutions - technical and vocational institutions - that would take care of "dropouts" from the main stream. The late Professor Kwame (former VC of UST, yes UST) warned the revolutionary PNDC; the result? They labeled him antirevolutionary.
Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

Joe Turkey, are you referring to The African Patriot?

Joe Turkey, are you referring to The African Patriot?
Savana man 10 years ago

When will we ever discuss an issue dispassionately without political inferences!That is the other cause of non critical thinking. we are always looking at every issue with a tribal or political eye. Sorry for Ghana. We have ...
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When will we ever discuss an issue dispassionately without political inferences!That is the other cause of non critical thinking. we are always looking at every issue with a tribal or political eye. Sorry for Ghana. We have a very long way to go. Not even Jesus can lead us to paradise

Kojo T 10 years ago

Joe your are a casualty yourself. What do you have in the USA or Canada. Then go to Southern Africa and see the syatem before you open your mouth. Most of you faiures are a result of not reading and being analytical. You jump ...
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Joe your are a casualty yourself. What do you have in the USA or Canada. Then go to Southern Africa and see the syatem before you open your mouth. Most of you faiures are a result of not reading and being analytical. You jump to conclusions . The system did nothing wrong , you are the sad mistake of the system
Kw ame Joe 10 years ago

What you are saying is not true. V

What you are saying is not true. V
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

Rote learning is what is going on in Ghana with the JHS and SHS systems where the syllabus is made in such a way that students are expected to learn certain facts and reproduce them at exams verbatim. I was in Ghana recently ...
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Rote learning is what is going on in Ghana with the JHS and SHS systems where the syllabus is made in such a way that students are expected to learn certain facts and reproduce them at exams verbatim. I was in Ghana recently and my daughter is about to write her JHS exam but from my wife who is an Assistant Director and heading a JHS school, our daughter has no choice of independent thinking in exams but to swot. Worse is the universities where if you dont reproduce facts from the lecturer's handout sold to you, you fail his paper. What the heck is going on in Ghana? Commercial elephantiasis of education? Banza Professors!
shimoto 10 years ago

@ Kwesi, you are absolutely right.. i was a polytechnic graduate in ghana. a student can only pass some certain courses if he or she can afford for handout from a lecturer.

@ Kwesi, you are absolutely right.. i was a polytechnic graduate in ghana. a student can only pass some certain courses if he or she can afford for handout from a lecturer.
KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

This is call CHEW and POUR. This is the reason why most people in position of interest can not make projective decision on their own, without asking the President. Is about time you move your daughter out of Ghana for a bette ...
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This is call CHEW and POUR. This is the reason why most people in position of interest can not make projective decision on their own, without asking the President. Is about time you move your daughter out of Ghana for a better education where you are.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
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in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents.

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.

shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in order to make students critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents.

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
shimoto 10 years ago

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lecture ...
read full comment

in fact, they have really made student to CHEW AND POUR than to make them critical thinkers, to the extend not allowing student to excel in their talents. well, i think, right from creche teachers to university lectures need proper training in other make student critical thinkers.
Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

I least expected you to be so Shallow in your attempt to address the issue at hand. I am the least enthused about the work of our colleague Ghanaian teaching professionals but you should be the last to chastised them since y ...
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I least expected you to be so Shallow in your attempt to address the issue at hand. I am the least enthused about the work of our colleague Ghanaian teaching professionals but you should be the last to chastised them since you have been there before and therefore should know the challenges inherent thereof. Remember it is an article of professional decorum not to speak ill of a colleague partner in trade. You shock me waa and your resume posted on line is very horrible. change ituh for it doesn't befit you.
ICONIC-07 10 years ago

YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. TAKE THE CASE OF GCE O-LEVEL AND A-LEVEL MARKING SCHEME AND YOU'LL BE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT OUR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS ARE SIMPLY USELESS.

STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITIQUE THE THE QUESTION AND ...
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YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. TAKE THE CASE OF GCE O-LEVEL AND A-LEVEL MARKING SCHEME AND YOU'LL BE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT OUR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS ARE SIMPLY USELESS.

STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITIQUE THE THE QUESTION AND PRESENT HIS VIEW ON THE SUBJECT MATTER. IF YOU FAIL TO POUR VERBATIM YOUR GRADE IS "D", AND THAT HAS CAUSED SO MANY INTELLIGENT STUDENTS TO DROP OUT AND COULDN'T GET THE CHANCE TO DO FURTHER STUDIES.

IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE THOUGHT TO THINK CRITICALLY TO CHALLENGE THE VIEWS OF THE PROFESSORS AND THE LITERATURE.

STUDENTS ARE THOUGHT TO REVIEW ARTICLES THROUGH CLASS SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS WHERE OTHER STUDENTS RAISE CRITICAL QUESTION ON THE SUBJECT MATTER OR THE ARTICLE PRESENTED BY THE GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT(S).

GHANAIAN PROFESSOR HAS BEEN USING THE SAME LECTURE MATERIAL FROM 1960 TO DATE AND WILL NOT CHANGE IT, BECAUSE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND THE DEAN ARE FROM THE SAME CROP OF MIND-SET AND HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO OFFER.

STRANGELY ENOUGH MOST OF THESE EDUCATED ILLITERATE PROFESSORS HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, BUT THEY'RE SIMPLY LAZY.

THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED UNDER OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH. POST-NKRUMAH LEADERS ARE SIMPLY VISION-LESS.

ALUTA CONTINUA!!!!!!!
Yaw B. 10 years ago

Wow CRID

Wow CRID
Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

Iconic, thanks for your insight into this topic. Let me please share a secret with all of you. All the African professors abroad especially in the US are used as subjects for discussion. It's like project work where the stude ...
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Iconic, thanks for your insight into this topic. Let me please share a secret with all of you. All the African professors abroad especially in the US are used as subjects for discussion. It's like project work where the students are made to listen to the African professor of a class. After delivering his lecture, this "dumb" African professor is assessed by a white or American professor along with the students. The African's lecture will be recorded and played back. In so doing, the students then analyze and criticize the part of the lecture they find funny, silly, or simply rubbish! The question they ask later is "And he says he's a professor?" I laugh out loud when they return home bragging.

Something happened to a Ghanaian professor in the US. I will hide his name for certain reasons. He had the nerve to state in his lecture that back home in Ghana, the local folks produce local gin (apketeshie) under unhygienic conditions. He was embarrassed when one young chap raised his hand and asked an embarrassing question that "Prof,the locals who produce this gin are not educated, are they?" Our Ghanaman prof said "Of course not. How can they?" the young lad continued "But prof, If some illiterate guys can produce alcohol under whatever conditions, what have you produced as a professor all your life?" This our fellow Ghanaman had to proceed on leave to cool off. This was in the mid 80s.
Marvelous 10 years ago

That is all it is. Don't we see the results of it? Our leaders can't even think out of the box.

That is all it is. Don't we see the results of it? Our leaders can't even think out of the box.
Tijani 10 years ago

the same goes with you professor Anis. if Ghana had had professors who are good critical thinkers, the country wouldn't be as it's today. you don't even need to have high education to be a critical thinker. in most parts of t ...
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the same goes with you professor Anis. if Ghana had had professors who are good critical thinkers, the country wouldn't be as it's today. you don't even need to have high education to be a critical thinker. in most parts of the world, where technology and science is in advanced state, those who developed them have no high education. surprisingly, a professor in electrical engineering Ghana does even know how to make a electrical bulb. our knowledge is just talking and criticizing.
Americano 10 years ago

Sir, are you a critical thinker? I think Ghanaian professors are too arrogant and have done little to improve upon the living conditions of the population. Ask anybody who got his/her BSC from KNUST during the 90s from the ...
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Sir, are you a critical thinker? I think Ghanaian professors are too arrogant and have done little to improve upon the living conditions of the population. Ask anybody who got his/her BSC from KNUST during the 90s from the department of planning. I rest my case
KANE 10 years ago

APART FROM DR. NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY, THE REST OF GHANA'S ENTIRE ELDERS AND LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THIS "EMPTY BARREL" OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE ANIS HAFFAR, HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT THEY ARE ALL NOT CRITICAL THINKERS.
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APART FROM DR. NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY, THE REST OF GHANA'S ENTIRE ELDERS AND LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THIS "EMPTY BARREL" OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE ANIS HAFFAR, HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT THEY ARE ALL NOT CRITICAL THINKERS.

THE EVIDENCE OF THIS IS PLENTY FOR ALL TO SEE.

OVER THE YEARS, GHANA HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY THESE SO-CALLED "SEASONED EDUCATIONISTS" AND THEIR LEADERSHIP CLIQUE, YET GHANA IS STILL WHERE IT WAS OVER 50 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE.

SO THIS SELF-OPINIONATED EMPTY BARREL OLD MAN.

GHANA'S USELESS HOPELESS OLD PEOPLE AND SUCCESSIVE LEADERSHIP ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF THE CURRENT MESS WE'VE ALL FOUND OURSELVES IN.

SO THIS ANIS HAFFAR SHOULD SHUT HIS BEAK!!!
KANE 10 years ago

APART FROM DR. NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY, THE REST OF GHANA'S ENTIRE ELDERS AND LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THIS "EMPTY BARREL" OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE ANIS HAFFAR, HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT THEY ARE ALL NOT CRITICAL THINKERS.
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APART FROM DR. NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY, THE REST OF GHANA'S ENTIRE ELDERS AND LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THIS "EMPTY BARREL" OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE ANIS HAFFAR, HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT THEY ARE ALL NOT CRITICAL THINKERS.

THE EVIDENCE OF THIS IS PLENTY FOR ALL TO SEE IN GHANA.

OVER THE YEARS, GHANA HAS BEEN GOVERNED BY THESE SO-CALLED "SEASONED EDUCATIONISTS" AND THEIR LEADERSHIP CLIQUE, YET GHANA IS STILL WHERE IT WAS OVER 50 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE.

SO THIS SELF-OPINIONATED EMPTY BARREL OLD MAN SHOULD SHUT IT!!!

THESE OLD MEN AND OUR SUCCESSIVE LEADERS WERE LICKING, AND CONTINUE TO LICK THE ARSES OF WHITE COLONIAL SLAVE MASTERS, BUT FOR DR. NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY GHANA WOULD STILL HAVE BEEN REELING IN COLONIALISM AND RAW SLAVERY.

GHANA'S USELESS HOPELESS OLD PEOPLE AND SUCCESSIVE LEADERSHIP ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF THE CURRENT MESS WE'VE ALL FOUND OURSELVES IN.

SO THIS ANIS HAFFAR SHOULD SHUT HIS BEAK!!!
YOUNG 10 years ago

Anis Haffar,I think u r truely an Educationalist,the youth of today spend most of their leisure time sitting idle on fons doing notin bt dat whatsapp tin oo s3 d3n.Ghetto youth let's work hard for $$$$.

Anis Haffar,I think u r truely an Educationalist,the youth of today spend most of their leisure time sitting idle on fons doing notin bt dat whatsapp tin oo s3 d3n.Ghetto youth let's work hard for $$$$.
Villagechildfoudation 10 years ago

Good advice, but do you say this man is a 'seaoned ghanaian educationist?' When has he ever talked on GTV, TV3, Daily Graphic for the general public to hear him? How many people listens to XYZ? Seasoned people should ALWAYS g ...
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Good advice, but do you say this man is a 'seaoned ghanaian educationist?' When has he ever talked on GTV, TV3, Daily Graphic for the general public to hear him? How many people listens to XYZ? Seasoned people should ALWAYS give their 'season' talks to the general public. How many books of his are in the Schools? ASK STUDENTS IF THEY EVER HEARD OF HIS NAME? I hope he will enter into politics soon.
PATRIOT 10 years ago

IN NEWSPAPERS AND I ALWAYS LIKE READING HIM

IN NEWSPAPERS AND I ALWAYS LIKE READING HIM
Kyenky3hene 10 years ago

With age! I could not have recognized him from his youthful days,if we met on the street, and sincerely hope all is well with his oldlady Auntie Kakra.

With age! I could not have recognized him from his youthful days,if we met on the street, and sincerely hope all is well with his oldlady Auntie Kakra.
Villagechildfoudation 10 years ago

THIS SPEECH MUST BE TELECAST ON GTV/TV3/VIASAT ONE, FOR LECTURERS AND STUDENTS. HE SHOULD ORGANISE SEMINARS FOR LECTURERS. well done, Anis,BUT why so late.

THIS SPEECH MUST BE TELECAST ON GTV/TV3/VIASAT ONE, FOR LECTURERS AND STUDENTS. HE SHOULD ORGANISE SEMINARS FOR LECTURERS. well done, Anis,BUT why so late.
S2emelia muggings 10 years ago

The difficult ones are not yet born. critical tinkers are thought to be hard, liars, rude and arrogant to be fast track into easy structures to undergo moving, merging and mugging to become Dr under secret reading indoors. Wh ...
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The difficult ones are not yet born. critical tinkers are thought to be hard, liars, rude and arrogant to be fast track into easy structures to undergo moving, merging and mugging to become Dr under secret reading indoors. What else should we expect our children to become after their education 'jobless'
PATRIOT 10 years ago

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Egya Blay 10 years ago

What a man? I had been victim of trying to approach issues with common sense and had low marks at certain point in time. Lecturers want chew ''pour-pour-pass-and-forget (C-P-P-F) stuff in Ghana. One has emerged successful in ...
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What a man? I had been victim of trying to approach issues with common sense and had low marks at certain point in time. Lecturers want chew ''pour-pour-pass-and-forget (C-P-P-F) stuff in Ghana. One has emerged successful in academia and has ended up with a very good job through a common-sense approach to issues in whiteman's land - now a manager. Professor Eddy Obeng (the brain behind Santandar -UK) and others have all suffered through this idea of C-P-P-F) yet the same story. Google will give you a bit of information about Prof. Eddy Obeng. In fact, our educational curriculum needs a rigorous review to suit the ever changing global environment.
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -PULSE, "A TIME TO -THINK". FOR IT IS RECORDED- ".....IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE, AND IF THERE BE ANY PRAISE, -THINK' ON THESE THINKS". ...
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NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -PULSE, "A TIME TO -THINK". FOR IT IS RECORDED- ".....IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE, AND IF THERE BE ANY PRAISE, -THINK' ON THESE THINKS". NOW, -LET MY PEOPLE THINK. "IT IS FINISHED". YEA, -"OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER WE CAN! WITH GOD WE CAN! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND -"THINK" ABOUT -THE MISSION AND THE VISION- AND MAKE THEM -PLAIN, TO HER PRECIOUS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU TREASURE GOD PRECIOUS GIFT OF -THE MIND. GYEA, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
MUCH THANKS TO -MIGHTY GOD RADIO- FOR THE LORD'S SONGS. AND TO GHANAWEB FOR THE SPACE.
Poga 10 years ago

I think we've had enough of critical thinkers. Come to think of the fact that the questions we answered some 30 years back in our "Ä" Level exams are still being asked demanding same answers; adding value, mechanized (commer ...
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I think we've had enough of critical thinkers. Come to think of the fact that the questions we answered some 30 years back in our "Ä" Level exams are still being asked demanding same answers; adding value, mechanized (commercial) farming, increased export, industrialization etc. Yet we are where we were. What I think we need to identify and seriously nature are "doers". There are way too many thinkers who are very much non-performers - espousing theories here and there. Enough of these. We can identify doers by their fruits.
KWAA 10 years ago

In Ghana education makes us Thieves,corrupt,selffish,greedy and foolish.

In Ghana education makes us Thieves,corrupt,selffish,greedy and foolish.
Kyenky3hene 10 years ago

Spent with 'Sugar daddys' who are old enough to be a parent. Tell me about a decadent society we are building in this country! When the studious ones are making their parents and the rest of us proud by achieving distinctions ...
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Spent with 'Sugar daddys' who are old enough to be a parent. Tell me about a decadent society we are building in this country! When the studious ones are making their parents and the rest of us proud by achieving distinctions at prestigious institutions like LSE,those Anis is referring to are scheming about ways to use their 'natural assets' to get their hands on exam papers,in order to 'sail' through their couse work.
You encounter some of them on foreign campuses, like I have, and you wonder if they ever sat in any lecture hall,let alone imbide anything meaningful from their earlier profs!
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Mr. Anis Haffar must be talking about classic definition of education and not education and or the educated as we know in Ghana. Ghana's under-educated and uneducated have been brow beaten into the acceptance of equating clas ...
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Mr. Anis Haffar must be talking about classic definition of education and not education and or the educated as we know in Ghana. Ghana's under-educated and uneducated have been brow beaten into the acceptance of equating classroom earned credentials to wisdom. As such everyone listen to trash and illogical assertions from our educated elite and members of parliament with some college education even as we live unfulfilled daily lives full of disappointment, abuse and misuse of our national treasury.
How much critical thinking went on with our members of parliament during the sale of Ghana Airways and or Ghana Telecom? What amount of critical thinking went into the sale of Discoverer911 drill ship and the payment of US$1million as legal fees to some outfit in London? What about our oil deal that gave 3% lifetime award to the EO group? How about the J.J. era thieves who took over anything state owned and turned them over to the one and only diabolical wife Naa Konadu Agyeman Rawlings? Did anyone in Ghana employ critical thinking when parliament created the school feeding program without sustainable funding sources or NYEP/GYEEDA without legal and funding authority? What about the fact that in Ghana the office of the presidency has been given unilateral authority to negotiate contracts on behalf of Ghana so they said to justify why Kufour could invalidate the CAN sports stadia renovation bid project in order for him to bring in a Chinese company of his liking?
There is no critical thinking needed in Ghana now or ever. We did not employ critical thinking during the 1966 coup and we darn sure have not been using it during the era of military coups. These days our educated and political elite class do not have to say anything with class and or with common sense because they only need support from their ignorant tribesmen and political party foot soldiers most of whom cannot find their way out of brown paper bag if their stinking lives depended on. There will always be short supply of critical thinking in Ghana because tribe and political party affiliation trumps anything good, moral and or principled stand on issue.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

There is no question that our education system, from primary through secondary to the tertiary levels need radical reform. Nothing appears to be working. The majority of our young people have a difficult time reading and unde ...
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There is no question that our education system, from primary through secondary to the tertiary levels need radical reform. Nothing appears to be working. The majority of our young people have a difficult time reading and understand a passage, cannot compute, cannot think critically, nor can they work with others to brainstorm to solve a problem. This has been going on for decades. The way we teach - memorizing, chew-pour&pass method, lecture method do not lend themselves to critical thinking. Kids are not challenged to do research, to investigate to find out why something work the way they do. They don't work on a project to discover why.
Our education system stifles the inquisitiveness of our young ones. I guess we are training them to get a job, which requires little or no thinking.
Humphrey 10 years ago

Well said prof

Well said prof

Education must make students critical thinkers — Anis Haffar

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