CEO of NKZ Music, Nana Yaw Maradona, who is known in the showbiz as Guru, has frowned on the educational system in Ghana.
He said the focus of the Ghanaian curriculum it to make sure pupils learn, pass and forget without gaining any practical knowledge in schools.
According to the CEO of NKZ Music, lectures are based on only theories and that does not help at all.
Guru explained that he deferred his course in the University in his second year upon realising that it was more fruitful to be on the field than sticking to concepts in the lecture hall.
In an interview with Mike Two on Adom FM‘s Entertainment Hall last Saturday, he said, “I wrote BECE in my first year at Junior High School (JHS) and I moved to SHS. So my seniors at John Teye school became my juniors at Apam SHS. It takes lots of studies to get there. I could beat my mates though I wasn’t always by my book.”
“We lack lots of things. We practice few. We don’t have the accoutrements to learn. We do more theory we don’t practice. That’s why our technology side is weak. It’s not because the kids can’t learn. It’s because the things to aid learning aren’t there. So they ‘chew’ and pour. The schools that practice are the private schools,” he noted.
He blamed the problems facing the Ghanaian education on lack of funds and the government failure to pay much attention to the educational system.
