GHANA’S BOGUS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM As I sit in my averagely furnished office preparing for the day, I cannot but think of my beloved Ghana and the future of its youth. I must confess, when I was younger, I had fairytale dreams and aspirations which were only matched by the might and splendor of Alexander the great. Fast forward to some twenty years later, it only seemed a mirage. I ask myself, what has happened to those fairytale dreams and aspirations I had? Are they gone forever? Are they on hibernate mode? Or I haven’t just gotten the right opportunity to explore? Whatever the answer is, I’ll keep that to myself. As an educationist, I’ve come in contact with lots of theories that seek to explain human behaviour and implications. One of such is Noam Chomsky, who argued that humans are pre-programmed to acquire language…. Hence there’s a kind of automatic knob in every humans which will help you acquire language irrespective of where you are. I’m a follower of the ideology that...