Theophilus Quarcoo Armar (4 August 1915 – 2000) was a Ghanaian educationist, publisher and textbook writer.
[1] Born on 4 August 1915, Armar's early formative years were spent at the Government Boys' School, where he studied from 1921 to 1931.
[2] In 1933, he entered the Accra Academy for his secondary education and graduated in 1936 as the head prefect of the 1936 batch of students.
Upon completion of his tertiary education at the United Kingdom in 1948, Armar returned to the Accra Academy to resume his teaching duties.
He went on a voluntary retirement from the Ghana Teaching Service in December 1967, and in January 1968, he became the Ghana representative of Macmillan and Company Ltd.[5][6][7][8] For about six years (from 1962 to 1968), he was linked with the development of the New Mathematics, he was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Schools' Broadcasts and Television until his voluntary retirement in December 1967.