Yofi Grant shares the important factors about education that people miss

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investments Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr. Yofi Grant has shared that very often people have the mistaken notion that we only pursue education for knowledge. However, the true essence of education is to acquire “problem-solving skills and critical thinking”.
In an interview with YFM’s Rev. Erskine on the Y Leaderboard Series, he backed his point by instancing: “You might go to school to learn Archaeology in school but you don’t necessarily have to come out to be an archaeologist. It just teaches you certain things about life. Education is supposed to help you solve problems. It is not only supposed to help you know. It is to help you develop the capabilities of problem-solving and critical thinking”.
He bemoaned the “depreciation in the educational system” by noting that many people go through the schooling system only for knowledge and not practical elements.
“Knowledge these days is commoditized and it is cheap. You can go on the internet any day you want but you cannot learn how to put those things together with the internet. It is building the thought process that is important that is why school is important and a structured curriculum is made to enable you understand not just know why one plus one is two and two plus two is four. When you have knowledge and you don’t have the process of demystifying that knowledge, applicability is very difficult”, he added.
Yofi Grant is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre appointed by H.E President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in February 2017. Mr. Grant is also a renowned Ghanaian investment banker with over 30 years of extensive work experience in banking and finance.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah