Celebrating Teachers Day
I had an opportunity to go through the precise message of Prof. Ableter of Ghana University on Facebook in which he argues that ‘Academic excellence is overrated’. Is academic excellence really overrated? I kept asking such question to myself for days together and I got a weird sensation inside my head as if somebody was answering my question ‘Oh man don’t think too much’, if academic excellence would have been the criteria of the success then what about Thomas Edison who was a bad learner in classroom yet he invented the electric bulb, Steve Jobs who never graduated yet he revolutionized the world with his visionary creations such as iPhones and iPads, Bill Gates who was an average student, yet he became an inspiration to people across globe and we have many such examples. To support his argument, Prof Ableter ...