Viemens Bamfo, a 12-year-old student of University of Ghana, Legon, has been offered a long-distance course in Public Administration.
He is the youngest among the over 2900 fresh students who were matriculated over the weekend by the university.
Viemens, was home-schooled by his father after his lower primary education in Akyem-Oda in the Eastern Region. He wrote and passed the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as a private candidate.
He is the second child in his family who has experienced home-tuition from his father; his elder brother, Edwin Bamfo, has graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as an Environmental Scientist at the age of twenty.
Viemens in an interview with Accra based Citi TV stated that his father uses what his children like to teach them - teaching by association.
“We combined the syllabus… we used the Cambridge syllabus and the WASSCE syllabus… so I understood some basic things about [them],” he said.
Viemens who aims at becoming the President of Ghana at the age of 40-years said he looks up to President Akufo-Addo and Barack Obama as role models.
“I want to improve our nation and make our nation one of the highest countries in the world… Things are going well but there are inflations in the economy…” he noted.
According to his father, Robert Bamfo, he decided to home-school his kids after going through some financial difficulties.
He said, he first taught his kids dictionary skills, where the child pronounces every word without the help of an adult.
“Where there is difficulty the child must resort to the dictionary. There are phonetic symbols so we do the phonetic skills and then once that is done, I teach Latin for vocabulary development,” Mr Bamfo explained.
Mr Bamfo added that he does not give notes to his kids but rather he resorts to the textbooks and where there is difficulty to comprehend, he teaches his kids reading skills development.
“I teach him the sciences; I don’t give notes. What we do is textbook centered. If the child doesn’t understand what he is reading, we do reading skills development… I do understand what I read. I have books on that so I use that to help them appreciate what they have read,” he stressed.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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INFACT YOUNG BOY,YOU DID WELL,KEEP IT YOUR DREAM WILL COME THROUGH.
It is good to have a short cut but there is a general problem with our educational system. Rushing to get a university degree is not a solution to the current unemployment issues we have. Teaching the child a skill i think is better.
So you are happy that he chose a weed smoker as model? Gimifo.
You are an excellent child but your biggest mistake is taking akuffo addo as role model. I fear for you because if God doesn't permit you end up a weed smoker and a ***barred word*** like your role model. What a role model to choose, a third class holder, who sleeps like a goatee even now that he is privileged to be the president. Drop that role model for only Obama.
what a short cut paaaaaaaaa eh see what poverty can do. some will pull a gun, join political party etc eh but his role models eh no comments. well done. the rest of us can do more with little or nothing at all.
John Jinapor! didi hear this little boy? he said he want to become the president of Ghana in future and for that matter, at the age of 40. He went further to say that his role models are President Akuffo-Addo and Barrack Obama. He did not metion JDM because the man JDM is corrupt, clueless, bribe taker and above-all incompetent
BRAVO !!!!