Friday, 29 May 2015

DATES WITH GEN.ASIEDU NKETIA ON TWITTER

INTRODUCTION
This piece will not follow the usual verbose nature of my pieces. My purpose is straight forward for verbosity. In this piece, I intend to share some of my submissions in an ongoing debate on Twitter on Ghana’s educational system.

I have had my own reservations about Ghana’s system of education and I thought that an opportunity to spew out some of my sentiments could not have been left to chance. It was a territory that I wanted to navigate and meander and I wish to thank the gallant young men who blazed the trail for the debate.

I am ordinarily not in the habit of sharing postings across social media platforms but the feedback, in terms of retweets, favorite and following, that greeted by postings in the said debate imposes a moral obligation for me to share with my blogger readers.

DATES WITH THE GENERAL
In debates like this, barely will a Politian delve into, for the risk that they run. But one General of Ghana’s politics will be intimated by the youth driven conversation on the microblogging platform. Hon Asiedu Nketia was out to follow the discussions as an active participant, a gesture that demonstrates his inalienable love for education.
While I commend him for his humility, I also want to take pride in the fact that some of my submissions were worthy enough to get the general retweeting.

Enough of all the grammar. Let me proceed by sharing some of my submissions in the debate.
v  ‘’Once you are educated, Society does not become indebted to you. Your education doesn’t make everyone an indented slave.#GhEduDebate’’

v  Education is a means to an end and not and End in itself.Until we understand this,we will continue to demonstrate for allawa...#GhEduDebate

v  Once you are educated, Society does not become indebted to you.Your education doesnt make everyone an indented slave.#GhEduDebate

v  If your educational system does not expose the ills of your society,solve your cracking challenges, it is not worth the stress #GhEduDebate

v  Ask a fresh English graduate to write a letter,and you will see the real picture of our educational system.#GhEduDebate

v  Self-discovery must be the pillar or the fulcrum of our educational system.We have no business discovering others.#GhEduDebate

v  Steve Jobs may still make it dropping out of school because genius defy longevity.#GhEduDebate.

v  It gladdens my heart that the young Ghanaian population is criticizing the system that has kept most of them out of jobs.#GhEduDebate.

v  Critical thinking is a skill, U must be learn and master. Spare education that duty. We have seen professors who don't have it.#GhEduDebate

v  Our educational system is failing because Teachers have stopped being Mentors.#GhEduDebate

v  When you discover yourself, you will recover your society and your world. That should be the purpose of our education.#GhEduDebate

v  Our Education empowers us to Reply and not to APPLY...That's there is a mismatch with industry requirement.#GhEduDebate

Conclusion
Above are some of my contributions on the said platform. I hope it helps stimulate the conversations and debates that will be critical enough to engender a paradigm shift in the prevailing academic system which continues to render most of us, the youth,jobless

Samuel Osarfo Boateng

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1 comment:

  1. I love the part you menironed, our education empowers us to Reply and not to Apply. Until our politics gets to the part where partisans decides whether loosing the seat to the opponent or maintaining the seat, I will act only to the interest of the people and for the betterment of the coming generation, our educational system remains same.

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