Free but expensive education in Ghana – Free SHS in retrospect

So, to ask the rich to create their own exclusive avenue, leaving the public system desiccated, bereft of funding, and the captive zone of only the poor, is to dangerously accelerate the creation of a class society.

It is easy to derive, even from first principles, and also from the experiences of several of the earlier post-independence generations, that high-quality public schools become a homogenising melting pot in society.

The Ghanaian public education system has historically made a great contribution to social cohesion.