{"id":1209491,"date":"2022-09-23T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/we-cant-memorise-our-way-out-of-poverty\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T06:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:50:58","slug":"we-cant-memorise-our-way-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/we-cant-memorise-our-way-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"We can&#8217;t memorise our way out of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum is calling for a reform in the country\u2019s educational sector.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adutwum said the current education set-up does not auger well for the development of students.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a round table discussion on education in Africa at the sideline of the UN General Assembly in New York, Dr. Adutwum said reforms are needed urgently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have tamed the children. We just want them to write down what we tell them and that on the day of exams, they should put down what we have told them and say that they are the best student the country has ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adutwum stressed that \u201cthat kind of education system will not transform Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister held that we needed a different breed of students to meet the needs of the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat kind of education system is not going to give us critical thinking individuals, especially since we are in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, education 4.0 and the fourth industrial revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t memorise your way out of poverty,\u201d the Education Minister warned further.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NIQwOO5TUBQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum on Ghana&#039;s educational structure\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIQwOO5TUBQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum is calling for a reform in the country\u2019s educational sector. Dr. Adutwum said the current education set-up does not auger well for the development of students. Speaking at a round table discussion on education in Africa at the sideline of the UN General Assembly in New York, Dr. Adutwum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}