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The problem with Ghana�s education system is that it is not knowledge-based, General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr Mensa Otabil has said. The motivational speaker and teacher told his congregation on Sunday November 9, 2014 in church that: �Knowledge is not about accumulation of facts and figures in order to pass an exam; knowledge is about being observant and learning and taking note about what happens around you.� �That is the problem with our education system because we are supposed to be producing knowledge through our educational system but our educational system doesn�t produce knowledge because it is not based on observation and learning,� he observed in the third series of his teaching on wisdom. He bemoaned that Ghana�s education system is �based on memorisation and regurgitation; memorise and pour. Chew, pour, pass, forget, so a lot of people go through school and don�t acquire knowledge because they are not observant and they dont learn anything, but they pass their exams and get good grades.� According to him, many Ghanaians go through the education system and still come out �ignorant� because the system is not knowledge-based. ��If we are going to produce knowledgeable people in the country, we have to shift from learning textbooks; and learning teachers and lecturers notes and regurgitating it to them, to observing.�