‘Don’t take my advice as an insult’ – Teacher Kwadwo tells President Akufo-Addo
Popular Ghanaian comedian and trained teacher, Michael Owusu Afriyie, a.k.a. Teacher Kwadwo, has sent a word of advice to president Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on the state of Ghana’s educational system.
But typical in Ghanaian society, he says he being a child advising an elderly might be misconstrued as an insult, and the president, should not take it so.
The advice stems from president Akufo-Addo’s hint of considering free tertiary education in Ghana.
Appearing on the YouTube Facebook live-streamed Smart Show on Smart TV Monday, August 9, 2021, the talented comedian revealed the President should resolve the innumerous challenges at the basic sector before proposing anything else.
Government, he said, must not compound the breakages in the sector but rather do the needful and fix the challenges at the basic and secondary sectors.
“A child advises the elderly and the elderly also advises a child. An advice is not an insult. There are so many problems at the basic sector you haven’t solved. Making tertiary education free is good. Some of us can even go some. But Mr. President, the children have no text books after changing the syllabus two years ago. There are no textbooks to teach the kids. Why don’t you fix that before thinking of making tertiary education free?,” the Adansi Akrofuom D/A Primary School teacher advised.
The situation, he indicated, has led to the reversion to the old syllabus to teach at the basic schools.
President Akufo-Addo during the Global Education Summit in London, UK, said his government is considering free education at the tertiary level, following the successful implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
He said the free SHS policy had resulted in some 400,000 more children getting access to SHS education in the country, with the government addressing the infrastructure challenges that came with the policy.
“So in Ghana, we’ve taken the decision that we’re going full scale ahead, now that we have widened public education at the secondary school level for all and sundry, to try and replicate it at the tertiary level too,” he said.
The Summit was co-hosted by the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta.
Source: Ghanasonline.com
