Historical Development of Education in Ghana

Question 1

Formal education in Ghana was started by the?

Answer 1

Westerners and missionaries

Question 2

The major aim of the traders was to ?

Answer 2

Practice commerce

Question 3

The westerner’s role was complemented by who and in what century?

Answer 3

Missionaries in the 18 century

Question 4

What was the secondary aim of the traders?

Answer 4

was to educate their African wives and children

Question 5

Formal education in Ghana was started by the western traders
and the missionaries in what century?

Answer 5

15th and 18th century

Question 6

Western education started off in the form of ?

Answer 6

Castle schools

Question 7

The first recorded western type school was established by who and what year?

Answer 7

Portuguese in 1529

Question 8

Which Europeans later arrived at the Gold Coast for trading activities?

Answer 8

•Dutch,
•Danes,
•British,
•Normans,
• Spaniards
• French

Question 9

Education was the reserve for who ?

Answer 9

•mulattoes or children of African wives who got married to the Western traders

Question 10

Cape Coast Castle school embraced also ?

Answer 10

Children of important chiefs and wealthy merchants

Question 11

What was education limited to ?

Answer 11

Education was limited to reading and writing

Question 12

In what year did the Portuguese trained some people to interpret the Bible ?

Answer 12

1694

Question 13

Castle schools were funded through the proceeds from who ?

Answer 13

Merchants companies

Question 14

Which people took over from the Portuguese and in what year ?

Answer 14

Dutch in 1637