The Network has also introduced basic
school motivational series on Inventions and Good Habits to mentor and empower pupils at the basic
level of education with critical tools for building the next generation of
thinkers.
“At the end of the day, education
should lay a foundation to be able to invent solution for societal problems,” stated
Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo, Country Director of the Network.
According
to him, “a morally corrupt intellectual is worse to a country’s development
than a first-class illiterate,” hence the need to build creative minds with good
moral habits.
Deputy Minister of Youth & Sports,
Joseph Yammin, who launched the initiative, is advocating Ghana’s Ministry of
Education considers a review of basic educational curricula to reflect the
current global trend which focuses on building a creative content to inspire
inventions.
He notes that the basic education level
constitutes the formative age to foster creative imaginative attitudes as the
benchmark of educational success.
“Ghana have achieved a quantum jump in
literacy rates since independence yet we all attest to the reality that we were
better solvers of our problems in the Nkrumah era, when the rate of literacy
was nothing to write home about, than now,” he argued.
This, he says, shows that the creative
thinking content of education and societal literacy matters go beyond the
ideologies of ‘Oxford’ literacy and numeracy where degrees and certificates
appears to have more value than deeds and creative imagination.
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by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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