What moves the world is ideology. This can be political or religious ideologies. Different ideologies moving different people. Given that as the case, then, the Integrative Education takes the round-table approach to harness from the weaknesses and strength of each of these ideologies.
1. That means believers or adherents of a political or religious ideology MUST be prepared to see their belief as NOT possessing ALL that there is.
2. They must be prepared to accept that, there is the good in other beliefs also. Unfortunately, this is what the world major belief system do not want to do.
And anyone who proposes that is tagged as the "Devil" who is trying to lead people in a particular belief/ideology whether in politics or religion.
The education that the world need has been seen and practiced by many western countries and that education is far different from what was handed down to the inhabitants of the African continent. The only way to go is practical education.
Practical in the sense that; the learner must as well be a thinker and innovative. Our development will mainly hinge on the resources we have. And that resources could be beneficial to us through controlling them. We could harness the resources through practical means. For example, Ghana is the second largest producer and exporter of cocoa. But much of the cocoa beverages we consume are from the west, notably Switzerland, a country that produces the crop for ornamental purposes.
The way forward would be for our schools to research into secondary outcomes of the crop - soap, cream, beverages.....which will engage the youth in a productive venture, and also boost our bourse. We will talk about non-crop resources like diamond, gold, uranium etc. Which had been bestowed on our land by God. Much research into them could add meaning to our educational system through the production of rings, medals, trophies, and the like.
Before coming on stream of the suggestions above, our education should have a complete renovation and restoration. This can begin from the government to the church or religion.
The government is the policy maker, the religious body or church is a major force that would be a watchdog and an enforcer. From the pulpit, the congregants must be aware of the capabilities of the individual and the resources strength of the country. Truth should not be massaged for biased self-aggrandizement. Clinics should be a regular one and monitored by a third party that would see to it that our representatives (parliament, MDCEs, and even the cabinet) are tutored on what our land possesses.
We have technical schools, but how many of the students finish school and can lay a block or be contracted to put up a government bungalow? Or can our parliament be bold and buy furniture made from our technical schools? What of the roofing? Or electrical work?
They will instead buy from China with the flimsy excuse that; "theirs would come on time, and be a uniformed one". But the fact is, our people lack expertise. Where could the experts have come from? Only through the schools - that's the practical learning. China phones are seen everywhere in the Republic and on the African continent. This is simply because the Chinese authorities invested much into the education system, by making sure that the real earth bestowed in their land would not only be exported or exploited but be harnessed by local hands. The focus had now turned from its exportation for foreign exchange to empowering the youth to harness them for good.
All these came to being through good plans on the part of their leaders’ on education. Our government has done its best but there is still room for additions, in terms of our education. Though statistically, Ghana's education is one of the best on the African continent (ref. on BBC country profile on Ghana), actually, our education system here is nowhere near a high standard.
So as we can see the answer still holds, which is practical education. If you know titration, you should know it practically. If on paper you know distillation, you should be able to distill or brew your alcohol - and the infrastructure should be there.
An art student should not just be graduated based on his or her thesis (which is mostly plagiarized), but it should purely be on academic works produced. Being it textbooks, novels, and what have you.
It is sometimes boring to hear the analysis given by some of the politicians on the economy. But whatever analysis given is read from a political scoring paper, without any linkage to our economy and its variables. This is a problem that cut across Africa.