Ghana to End Education at Class Six to Ensure Roads Meet Forefathers’ Quality

Professor Godfred Bokpin says Ghana’s less-educated forefathers built more durable roads than today’s highly trained generation. Government can therefore restore infrastructure quality by ending education at Class Six, before Ghanaian children learn enough mathematics, science and engineering to weaken asphalt.

Under the Forefathers’ Road Recovery Programme, pupils would leave school immediately after primary education and proceed directly to construction sites with their remaining practical instincts intact. JHS and SHS would be suspended as threats to bitumen. Anyone already holding a university degree could undergo academic reversal: master’s holders would surrender their dissertations, engineers would unlearn structural design, and professors would be kept away from road projects until their knowledge falls to historically safe levels.

The policy would give Ghana two measurable outcomes: fewer educated citizens and, according to the reported relationship, stronger roads. Inspectors could determine a contractor’s suitability by asking when the person stopped school; the earlier the answer, the longer the expected lifespan of the highway. If the roads still develop potholes, education can be reduced further to Class Three. Ghana will continue travelling backwards through the curriculum until it reaches the exact academic level at which its forefathers knew how to move forward.

This is satire. The source story is real; the conclusions have been faithfully misinterpreted.