Idea no.1 for fellow Pakistanis to contribute : Education

[khail007]

Moral education should be the sole focus as soon as kid start talking till grade 3, that's time when personality of a kid is developed. Having good human being is most important thing for nation building

Exactly as you stated ... alas now a days we only consider a piece of paper as evidence of our education. I m not against formal education that has its own importance and elevate you to your professional education/jobs.
Most important is the one you mentioned and usually we lack badly in same and it directly impacts our culture/society.

 

[Sugarcane]

Exactly as you stated ... alas now a days we only consider a piece of paper as evidence of our education. I m not against formal education that has its own importance and elevate you to your professional education/jobs.
Most important is the one you mentioned and usually we lack badly in same and it directly impacts our culture/society.

Look at Japanese education system, the main focus in early years there is on personality development only and that help them prepare hardworking, honest and mannered kids who out perform our kids studying science and mathematics from grade 1 in our best schools. Same is the case with China (although their main focus is to make Kids Chinese in orientation) but still there's no match between grade 5 Pakistani students and Chinese students (Exceptions can be found but you don't compare exceptions).

 

[AsifIjaz]

HEC should get an agreement done with chinese, british, korean, portugal, german and spanish universities in different fields especially agriculture, engineering, vetenary sciences, alternative energy, health management, artificial intelligence and metallurgy. Have an agreement for 15 to 20 seats per year per university and establish or rent out a hostel nearby where 60 to 70 students can be housed. Select candidates from pakista by open tests and send them to these universities with bonds and property mortgage for 10 years post masters or phd.
Do it for a decade and see the wonders. Overtime we will have better universities and better faculty in pakistan, better voices internationally and a booming and highly educated middle income, oversees pakistani community in the west.
The expats can contribute by renting out their property to hec or to pak students on cheaper rates.

 

[Dubious]

I've been planning on setting up small training centers in Pakistan for the youth to train them for Outreach Based Link Building for Search Engine Optimization, and Internet Marketing in General. I can use these trained workers for my own future projects, while they can also follow Entrepreneurial Aspirations or go work as Freelancers, once they understand the process.

@graphican

 

[Signalian]

1. Give fee for children of servants like maids, drivers, cooks, security guards etc. If can't give fee, then buy books, new school uniform every year for them.

2. Volunteer to tutor children of neighbors and relatives for free, atleast just for home work.

3. Condemn child labour and child-begging openly and report to the Police straight away.

4. Contact NGO's who could potentially use incidents of child prostitution, child labour etc as tools for funding/politics and snatch children/young women from their clutches and offer education to affected victims.

5. If generator and UPS facilities are available, Utilize drawing room or garage of home to serve educational purposes for students who are giving exams amidst load shedding at night.

6. Pool in to pay for a monthly rickshaw to manage 3-4 students going to same school.

7. Buy furniture for schools in rural areas where students sit on grass and learn under the sun.

8. Help a graduate land a job by giving tips for interviews and CV making.

9. Talk to poor class working parents who refuse to send children to school on the pretext of sending them to work to generate money for livelihood. Barter their education for providing food from free food centres like RIZQ, Khana Ghar, Langar Khana, shrines etc, if own pocket is tight to provide two times meals.

10. Make learning fun by using screens and visual learning tools for students.

11. Raise voice against cramming methods utilized in schools.

12. PHD's should get in touch with Federal and city boards to alter the syllabus of School/College level of their fields, so the yound minds can be shown correct direction towards achieving their study goals by off-loading extra topics through re-vision of syllabus.

13. Spread awareness among parents by joining hands with schools that extra curricular activities like sports, debating, drama etc are useful for all students; just getting grades shouldn't be the only goal.

14. Join hands with parents to raise concern with Government about high-fee structure in private school and approach legal practitioners to provide services at low costs if need arises.

 

[graphican]

Pakistan Reading Challenge

Folloiwng idea is a part vision and part reality. Its a vision for Pakistan but a reality working in Australia, UK and other countries of the world.

Please visualise this

Pakistan reading challange runs in schools across Pakistan every year and encourage students to finish 15-20 non-syllabus books per year. The program is based on a web-based application, is available from Kindergarten to year 10, runs without a cost to the state, is gamified to keep the students going without supervision - and upon finishing the challenge, rewards students with an A3 wall poster with their name on it.

Currently a similar system is in use in Australia and UK and is being run successfully. Its a tried, tested and validated system delivering results. I happened to design this sytem for Victorian Government last year and I am keen to design a tailor made solution for Pakistan. When implemented, the system offers following direct benefits.

• It develops reading habit across the State/Nation.
• It educates students about topics they are interested in.
• The system runs at no cost to the Government.
• It helps students to discover students with similar interests and form interest groups to grow together.
• It helps students discover new topics, new possibilities and new dimensions to learn/grow.
• It's easy to implement, the system uses available school infrastructure and can have high adaptability.
• It is implementable in any language.
• Requires minimal effort to build, deploy and maintain.

How does it work in Australia?

In Victoria, Permier's reading challange (PRC) is working something like this;

• A new challenge starts every year.
• The system is built upon a web-based application that offers school admin, teachers, and students with separate login accounts.
• The decision to participate in the challenge is taken at the school level but participating in the challane is optional for students of that school.
• Participating students prepare a list of books they want to read and it is validated by their teacher to ensure books are appropriate to student's current reading levels. Within a class, students will have different reading levels and the teacher allocates easier/harder or less/more books accordingly. Books can be from any genres, any language and in any format.
• Students read those books at home (or in class) and the teacher validates when a student finishes them.
• At the end of the year, the teacher decides which students have finished the challenge by reading their comitted books and declares the winners. Participating students do not compete against each other but every student competes against himself/herself and tries to read the books they comitted to at the start of the year. When everybody reads, all students of the class will be the winners.
• Students who finished their reading challenge receive a wall poster as a reward. Posters are rich in art and a new poster is produced every year + it carries a prominent name of the student who earned it.
• Next year, the challenge starts again asking students to pick a little harder books than they studied last time.
• The challenge is subjective and students with different reading/learning ability can be given a smaller or a bigger challenge to finish. Some students end up finishing 100 books a year and others finish 10.

What will we get if we implement this systme in Paksitan?

In addition to direct benefits mentioned above, we will benefit in following additional ways;

• When implemented, Pakistan reading challange will provide us with an agency, a "voice" and a "say” in improving the overall education in Pakistan. We will be relevent and ears be wiling to listen what we say.
• Pakistan can promote book reading as well as book writing as lots of books at all educational years will be required.
• Students can be made to read few “required books” as well as offer them flexibilty to chose “choice books”, thus standard messaging/knowledge can be delivered to students across the Nation using required books without limiting their self-interests.
• The system can engage patriotic citizens to participate in the challenge (as a teacher/supervisor) and start teaching books to kids outside schools.
• It lays the foundation of new education in Pakistan.
• This project has a face value and National as well as State governments will be willings to fund it.
• The solution can be offered in all languages and will create a nation-wide wave of reading/larning.

What are our strengths which enable us to go for it?

• I know the Premier’s reading challenge inside out. I’ve designed one for Victorian government.
• I know how to motivate students using gamified systems.
• Its a simple system and requires 4 to 6 months of design/development effort, with a team of 8-10 people.
• Foundation to implement this system is already there, we are only adding a layer on top of it.

What are some success stories?

1. Premieres’ reading challenge VICTORIA
2. Premieres’ raiding challenge New South Whales
3. Summer reading challenge UK

Thanks for giving this suggestison your time and attention.

Graphican

@Dubious, @zulu , @fitpOsitive , @baqai , @Dubious , @War Thunder, @ps3linux

 

[HAIDER]

Finland has really awesome salary for teachers...no preferential treatment but license and training is really good for pri to secondary school teachers....

awsome level of education , its not sindh , whole pakistan is like this ...

 

[Mighty Lion]

Higher educations needs a lot of innovation.

 

[graphican]

Development of Moral Wealth in Paksitan

Abstract
Ethical formal education in Paksitan is non-existent. We are Islamic replublic of Pakistan, practically living far too away from the essense and teachings of this faith. In "Islamyaat" we try to feed student's brain with awareness about Islam touching the belief component or giving examples but is Islamayaat helpng us build human character? Looking at the social fabric and how leaders are being chosen, we can easily say no. To save children of Pakistan from the abuse of relegious groups, sects and "religio-political" (coined this term) brain washing, there must be a non-biased, well built and independent channel of learning about Islam and Islamic values.

I have been studyign concept of "wealth" since years and one of the best defination about human wealths came from Nepoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" (Amazon link) where he helped me see 12 types of wealths a human can possess. including;

1. A Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
2. Sound physical health
3. Harmony in human relationships
4. Freedom from fear
5. The hope of achievement
6. The capacity for faith
7. A willingness to share one's blessings
8. A labour of love
9. An open mind on all subjects
10. Self-discipline
11. The capacity to understand people
12. Economic security

But in Pakistan (and elsewhre in the Muslim world), the concept of learning is fixsated with our ability to generate financial wealth, the last item of the list only. We do not preceive knoweldge, politeness, love, care, respect, empathy, giving, living together, giving time and attention etc as learnable qualities nor there is ever an effort to install these qualities in a human brain ever. If our parents are kind, we learn from them but if they were not, our chance to getting wealth of kindness has came and gone for ever as there is no organised avenue where you could learn about basic qualitiesof a human life.

Creating moral wealth in the heads and hearts of our children is a need. Our National Character is only as beautiful as much Individual of this Nation is - and let's admit we are in pretty bad situation around morality.

I am looking forward to learn from you guys about the Ethical and Moral Problems we rae goign through and how can we tackel them from our platform.

Solution #1: Writing 100 booklets

Create ~100 small books, each under 10 pages in size and dedicated to core concepts about ethics and learning foudnational aspects of being a human.

A while ago, I stated an exercise where I was trying to learn these concepts myself and along the way I kept producing output of what I had leanred. See few examples here;

• How to achiving extreme excellence in life
  
• Learnign to respect (urdu)
• Value of forgivness

If we are able to produce 100-500 such topics, deicated to charity, caring our parents, loving neighbours, feeding the hungry etc... that will lay the foundation of ethical character that students keep building upon throughout their life. Let's put them on a path and help them walk few steps and then tell them how to walk, run and do marathons on those paths.

These 100-500 books will need to be created and can be printed or provided digitally through the platform of ILMA.

May WIll and Help Allmighty be with us. Aamin.

@Microsoft, @Dubious, @ps3linux, @zulu , @fitpOsitive , @baqai , @War Thunder, @war&peace, @Verve,

(Please note, I have created a sub-idea under Idea#1 - Education to discuss this topic in confluence).

 

[war&peace]

Development of Moral Wealth in Paksitan

Abstract
Ethical formal education in Paksitan is non-existent. We are Islamic replublic of Pakistan, practically living far too away from the essense and teachings of this faith. In "Islamyaat" we try to feed student's brain with awareness about Islam touching the belief component or giving examples but is Islamayaat helpng us build human character? Looking at the social fabric and how leaders are being chosen, we can easily say no. To save children of Pakistan from the abuse of relegious groups, sects and "religio-political" (coined this term) brain washing, there must be a non-biased, well built and independent channel of learning about Islam and Islamic values.

I have been studyign concept of "wealth" since years and one of the best defination about human wealths came from Nepoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" (Amazon link) where he helped me see 12 types of wealths a human can possess. including;

1. A Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
2. Sound physical health
3. Harmony in human relationships
4. Freedom from fear
5. The hope of achievement
6. The capacity for faith
7. A willingness to share one's blessings
8. A labour of love
9. An open mind on all subjects
10. Self-discipline
11. The capacity to understand people
12. Economic security

But in Pakistan (and elsewhre in the Muslim world), the concept of learning is fixsated with our ability to generate financial wealth, the last item of the list only. We do not preceive knoweldge, politeness, love, care, respect, empathy, giving, living together, giving time and attention etc as learnable qualities nor there is ever an effort to install these qualities in a human brain ever. If our parents are kind, we learn from them but if they were not, our chance to getting wealth of kindness has came and gone for ever as there is no organised avenue where you could learn about basic qualitiesof a human life.

Creating moral wealth in the heads and hearts of our children is a need. Our National Character is only as beautiful as much Individual of this Nation is - and let's admit we are in pretty bad situation around morality.

I am looking forward to learn from you guys about the Ethical and Moral Problems we rae goign through and how can we tackel them from our platform.

May WIll and Help Allmighty be with us. Aamin.

@Microsoft, @Dubious, @ps3linux, @zulu , @fitpOsitive , @baqai , @War Thunder, @war&peace, @Verve,

(Please note, I have created a sub-idea under Idea#1 - Education to discuss this topic in confluence).

Excellent points sir. Thoroughly enjoyed reading. I'm not qualified to comment on the Islamiyat course in Pakistan since I didn't study but I can make general observations and suggestions based on my humble knowledge of the society & the religion ...

1. Islam is anti-racism and Holy Prophets Khutba on Hajja-tul-Wida (sermon on farewell Hajj) should be beacon of light and a charter for humanity. No Arab is superior to non-Arab and vice-versa, no white person is superior to a black and vice versa. (May Allah forgive me any mistakes in translation), but we see people in Pakistan practically believing in biradarism, parochialism, provincialism etc while Islam stresses equality and fraternity.
2. Importance of searching for honest leadership and not becoming blind followers. Significance of casting vote for honest & capable person regardless of his/her affiliations
3. Collective thinking & selflessness. I have observed that people in Pakistan think about themselves and their benefits only and I find this mentality to be root cause of several societal-ills including the corruption. We need to think about the collective good and grow as a society which Islam stresses so much

I will add more points here or on other platform..later inshaAllah

 

[fitpOsitive]

Development of Moral Wealth in Paksitan

Abstract
Ethical formal education in Paksitan is non-existent. We are Islamic replublic of Pakistan, practically living far too away from the essense and teachings of this faith. In "Islamyaat" we try to feed student's brain with awareness about Islam touching the belief component or giving examples but is Islamayaat helpng us build human character? Looking at the social fabric and how leaders are being chosen, we can easily say no. To save children of Pakistan from the abuse of relegious groups, sects and "religio-political" (coined this term) brain washing, there must be a non-biased, well built and independent channel of learning about Islam and Islamic values.

I have been studyign concept of "wealth" since years and one of the best defination about human wealths came from Nepoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" (Amazon link) where he helped me see 12 types of wealths a human can possess. including;

1. A Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
2. Sound physical health
3. Harmony in human relationships
4. Freedom from fear
5. The hope of achievement
6. The capacity for faith
7. A willingness to share one's blessings
8. A labour of love
9. An open mind on all subjects
10. Self-discipline
11. The capacity to understand people
12. Economic security

But in Pakistan (and elsewhre in the Muslim world), the concept of learning is fixsated with our ability to generate financial wealth, the last item of the list only. We do not preceive knoweldge, politeness, love, care, respect, empathy, giving, living together, giving time and attention etc as learnable qualities nor there is ever an effort to install these qualities in a human brain ever. If our parents are kind, we learn from them but if they were not, our chance to getting wealth of kindness has came and gone for ever as there is no organised avenue where you could learn about basic qualitiesof a human life.

Creating moral wealth in the heads and hearts of our children is a need. Our National Character is only as beautiful as much Individual of this Nation is - and let's admit we are in pretty bad situation around morality.

I am looking forward to learn from you guys about the Ethical and Moral Problems we rae goign through and how can we tackel them from our platform.

Solution #1: Writing 100 booklets

Create ~100 small books, each under 10 pages in size and dedicated to core concepts about ethics and learning foudnational aspects of being a human.

A while ago, I stated an exercise where I was trying to learn these concepts myself and along the way I kept producing output of what I had leanred. See few examples here;

• How to achiving extreme excellence in life
  
• Learnign to respect (urdu)
• Value of forgivness

If we are able to produce 100-500 such topics, deicated to charity, caring our parents, loving neighbours, feeding the hungry etc... that will lay the foundation of ethical character that students keep building upon throughout their life. Let's put them on a path and help them walk few steps and then tell them how to walk, run and do marathons on those paths.

These 100-500 books will need to be created and can be printed or provided digitally through the platform of ILMA.

May WIll and Help Allmighty be with us. Aamin.

@Microsoft, @Dubious, @ps3linux, @zulu , @fitpOsitive , @baqai , @War Thunder, @war&peace, @Verve,

(Please note, I have created a sub-idea under Idea#1 - Education to discuss this topic in confluence).

Or we can create small youtube animation for the modern Pakistani children.

 

[graphican]

Or we can create small youtube animation for the modern Pakistani children.

Yes that can be another mode. This is called "knowledge rehashing" where you have foundational concepts built and then presented in multiple modes. Now children watch more than they read so video is definatley one of better modes of deliering this message.

This howerver comes at a production and repreoduction cost. Any form of presentaton that is hard to ammend will be hard to live by. But I agree that animations can help a good deal.

There is a similar concept working where stories of Prophets are being taught using animation. I and my kids loved that idea.

 

[Dubious]

There is a similar concept working where stories of Prophets are being taught using animation. I and my kids loved that idea.

Yes I have seen some animation books demonstrating stories of prophet...A family friend had bought something from the UK and was showing us...was impressed and her kids loved it!

 

[Dubious]

animation for the modern Pakistani children.

I think we suggested @baqai hologram?

 

[fitpOsitive]

I think we suggested @baqai hologram?

That is another super idea. One thing concerns me is Internet requirement for that. @baqai what you say, what will be BW requirements for minimal operation? Another question is, is there a concept of stored holographic animation? What equipment is required for that?