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The against for Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia leading again in the party is not about any good reasons but pure hatred and jealousy. Nothing else.

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“IN DEFENSE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION.” (PART I)

Liberal education and its value to society have been a passionate subject for me for a very long time. But for whatever reason, I have never argued my thoughts publicly. I am doing so now in the wake of the graduation of 823 lawyers over the weekend. It will be a long argument. And so, I shall segment my thoughts into parts.

I have put the title of my write-up in quote for two reasons- it is the exact title of a book written by the famous American journalist, Fareed Zakaria and so, to that extent, it is a quotation. Secondly, it is the purpose of this post- to defend liberal education in the face of its indecent assault by apologists of an exclusively science-based education. This assault got accentuated when over the weekend, 823 new graduates of the Ghana school of law were called to the BAR. In an article titled “The Mindset Gap: More Lawyers or More Problems Solvers, what does Ghana need most?” one Efo Small argued that “as a country, our real crisis is not in the court room; it is in our farms, our rivers, our factories, our classrooms, our laboratories, our infrastructure.” “We are concentrating our brightest minds in the wrong places- and paying a heavy price for it” he added. In subsequent parts of the three-part write-up, I shall attempt to give an answer as to what our real crisis in education is. But for now, I dare say that our crisis is not because our brightest students are all desirous of a legal education. Indeed, I dare say that if all Ghanaians had a legal education, it would advance the development of our country rather than re**rd it. I shall argue this point later.

In fact, all around the world, it is no longer fashionable to study the liberal arts- philosophy, psychology, history, religion, classics etc. According to Fareed Zakaria, “if you want to live a good life these days, you know what you’re supposed to do. Get into college, then drop out. Spend your days learning computer science and your nights coding. Start a technology company and take it to the public…if you’re not quite adventurous, you could major in electrical engineering.” The fact that it has been said that some pioneers of the technology companies that we have today were school dropouts has further given credence to the myth that staying in school and graduating, especially with a liberal arts degree, is a waste of time. While there a few (and I emphasise few) school dropout innovators, there are countless university professors who are innovators. Indeed, statistically more college professors and academics have changed the face of science and technology than college dropouts.

Today the Trump administration is reducing or withholding funding to liberal arts faculties mainly because that is where Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and gender dynamics are taught. You will not learn DEI in an electrical engineering class. You will not learn ethics in an electrical engineering class. But you cannot produce a crop of unethical electrical engineers. They will not light up your society. They will raze it to the ground. You cannot produce a crop of unethical doctors, nurses and medical practitioners. They will not cure people; they will murder them. I am arguing that the persistence of liberal education does not kill the persistence of science education; it complements it and makes it whole. I dare say that while we have labeled the discovery of the law of gravity as a scientific invention, it started in the mind of Sir Isaac Newton as a philosophical idea not as a scientific idea. In fact, I dare say that all scientific discoveries first started as philosophical ideas, even sometimes as religious ideas. That is why for a very long time at the Oxford University, only theology students could switch to medicine in the middle of their studies. The good life and how to live it-the question about the right way and the wrong way to live is the basis for all inventions. But that question is inherently philosophical and ethical. I shall return.

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Happy Birthday Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia,God bless you. 🎂♥️