Declining standard of education- Pakistan
The present condition of education in Pakistan forces us to cry out loud. Our educational system has not undergone any change with the change brought about by political independence. It bears no imprint of freedom and appears to be as listless as it used to be during the days of slavery. Our universities still remain glued to that old colonial era pattern. The imperfections of that pattern are now keenly felt and there is a great need to introduce a radical change in the educational system.
Low literacy rate and poor quality of education are the major drawbacks of the educational system in Pakistan. Our education system is influenced by a number of factors. Some of them are more prominent, such as low enrolment and high drop out rate at the primary level, different standards of education, low budget allocation for education sector, political interference, low quality of curricula and textbooks, rapid growth in population, poverty and unemployment, poor quality of teachers and irrelevant induction of duties, and our substandard evaluation system. Although the government claims for some bold steps to overcome these problems, there is still room for improvement.
On the other hand, the students play no active role in the attainment of knowledge. Their entire education is passive and mechanical. Our educational system, in the words of Dr Annie, is just cramming the boy's head with a lot of disjointed facts poured into the head as into a basket, to be emptied out again in the examination room, and the empty basket carried out again into the world. This is the reason why a student who succeeds so well in his college examination fails so miserably in the examination of life. Students have no love of wisdom, no thirst of knowledge, but only a desire to get certificates and diplomas to find reasonable jobs.
There are many complaints about Pakistan's primary schools and the lack of quality education found in them. One of the main concerns is the lack of proper teaching, teacher training and teacher motivation. Teachers are not professional and they are damaging the whole system.
In view of the foregoing defects and imperfections, our system of education calls for a change. One of the first and most important tasks is that we have to improve our educational machinery. We have to develop schemes of education so that complete and harmonious improvement can be possible.
We can improve our education system if we adopt modern method for teaching. There should be commitment of the teachers with their profession and private educational institutions should play their active role. Educational policies with complete check and balance should be implemented.
Education system should provide not mere book worms and job hunters, but intelligent citizens.
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The Rapidly Declining Education System in Pakistan
More and more parents have stopped believing in the Pakistani education system and are sending their children abroad and switching to foreign education systems if they can afford them. The reputation and the standard of government controlled schools is declining rapidly, be it the results or the grooming a child gets.
Gone are the days when students had the utmost respect for their teachers. We always hear our parents and grandparents telling stories of their teachers and how their good education was just because of their efforts. Interestingly these days students call the teachers by their first names while talking about them. I would agree that the new generations have less respect and patience and being formal is just not "cool" anymore. But is this the only thing that is wrong?
-Teachers
Teachers hate their jobs, they hate their salaries and they hate children. Why anyone would bind themselves in a profession that requires extensive responsibility and time around kids? And instead of being patient, they resort to beating kids up to keep them quiet. As a result the kids get afraid of asking questions; they do poorly in the tests and they get beat up for that too, then instead of getting to the root of the problem they are beaten up some more. Finally they shut off their minds completely, either they cram their way through schools or they become the difficult ones that barely pass.
Teachers havent yet realized how different human beings are from each other. They will put everyone through the same drill, teach everyone the same subjects and the good student is the one that gets the highest marks and only he has the privilege of getting the title of class representative and he is all that the teachers live for, because he will be the perfect little employee and earn his keep while the rest are just blockheads who will just fade away from this earth so they dont need any concentration of the teachers.
-"It's not my Problem"
This is a phrase that we all have frequently heard. You present a reason for not being able to complete or perform well in a task and the very convenient reply you get is: "It's not my problem". Well of course its not your problem but would you even for a second put yourself in the students shoes and present them with a solution? It always burns me up to hear this phrase even if it's not being said to me.
-Arts Teachers
There exist art teachers in this world who do not allow you to use your own head. As baffling it may seem all my arts teachers would draw something on the board and the student who most accurately copies it gets the highest grade. Why would you even have an arts class if you just rob the kids of their imagination and creativity?
-Extracurricular Studies
Yes, you read it right. You must remember getting held up in the very short recess or after school hours by a teacher who can't finish their course in time. Whats more, as you get older, sports and games aren't encouraged because your body apparently doesn't need the exercise anymore. There used to be a time when playing sports was compulsory. They took attendance for the games periods too. However, these days you need to sit and copy whatever the teacher is writing on the board and dictating and bear the torture of the children cheering and playing outside. You too could have been out there if you were a lifeless robot that does everything like the teachers says in class.
-Discipline
Sometimes they come up with ridiculous rules like: you cannot run in the morning, your shoes have to be clean even after a games period and some unspoken ones like: you will always sit like a voiceless robot in the class. The school staff often gets so carried away with discipline that the school feels more like a prison than an educational institute. Every student is looked at like a criminal in rehab instead of a contributor to the nations future.
There are schools in which students are not allowed to read books and during their library period, they are given "The Economist" magazines while the books stay locked away in the cupboards. If God forbid a student asks for a different magazine, the librarian will coldly say: "Have you read it all? Why a thirteen year old needs to read business reviews or the stock market updates is beyond me. And then the older and wiser generation has the nerve of accusing the young of not being interested in reading.
The lab equipment is made of gold and if you use more than a few milliliters of solutions for your chemistry experiment, you will be subjected to a legal proceedings. If thats how you want your future scientists to feel in a lab then why make them feel uncomfortable in the lab at all?
-Profession Consultation
There are only three professions out there: you can become teachers, engineers or doctors. Students are never told about how many options they have, artists are always poor, politicians are bad, software professionals spend too much time in front of computers and well you can never be smart enough to run a business. When it finally comes the time to choose a professional degree or university, you are a good boy if you get admission in the best engineering or med school. Most students that were converted into mindless drones in school cannot even choose a path and the ones that have half a brain are often forced into a discipline that they don't like. Why don't you ask them what they like to do and not what you would like to see them do?
I by no means believe that all the institutes are same but we need to realize that there are a lot of things wrong with our system and education is the biggest responsibility of a nation which is often overlooked. If nations cant keep up with change and the exponential knowledge growth, the youth is not going to make things any better.
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Most of them joined terrorists, religious activities, suicide bombings, scams, lack common senses, and brainwashing, every citizens made terrible choice to vote wrong people in the past and future. Pakistan doesn't have great education system, why is the lack of education a priority problem in both poor and rich people? If you have your first child, please send them to aboard.
What's solutions ?
The present condition of education in Pakistan forces us to cry out loud. Our educational system has not undergone any change with the change brought about by political independence. It bears no imprint of freedom and appears to be as listless as it used to be during the days of slavery. Our universities still remain glued to that old colonial era pattern. The imperfections of that pattern are now keenly felt and there is a great need to introduce a radical change in the educational system.
Low literacy rate and poor quality of education are the major drawbacks of the educational system in Pakistan. Our education system is influenced by a number of factors. Some of them are more prominent, such as low enrolment and high drop out rate at the primary level, different standards of education, low budget allocation for education sector, political interference, low quality of curricula and textbooks, rapid growth in population, poverty and unemployment, poor quality of teachers and irrelevant induction of duties, and our substandard evaluation system. Although the government claims for some bold steps to overcome these problems, there is still room for improvement.
On the other hand, the students play no active role in the attainment of knowledge. Their entire education is passive and mechanical. Our educational system, in the words of Dr Annie, is just cramming the boy's head with a lot of disjointed facts poured into the head as into a basket, to be emptied out again in the examination room, and the empty basket carried out again into the world. This is the reason why a student who succeeds so well in his college examination fails so miserably in the examination of life. Students have no love of wisdom, no thirst of knowledge, but only a desire to get certificates and diplomas to find reasonable jobs.
There are many complaints about Pakistan's primary schools and the lack of quality education found in them. One of the main concerns is the lack of proper teaching, teacher training and teacher motivation. Teachers are not professional and they are damaging the whole system.
In view of the foregoing defects and imperfections, our system of education calls for a change. One of the first and most important tasks is that we have to improve our educational machinery. We have to develop schemes of education so that complete and harmonious improvement can be possible.
We can improve our education system if we adopt modern method for teaching. There should be commitment of the teachers with their profession and private educational institutions should play their active role. Educational policies with complete check and balance should be implemented.
Education system should provide not mere book worms and job hunters, but intelligent citizens.
--------------------------------
The Rapidly Declining Education System in Pakistan
More and more parents have stopped believing in the Pakistani education system and are sending their children abroad and switching to foreign education systems if they can afford them. The reputation and the standard of government controlled schools is declining rapidly, be it the results or the grooming a child gets.
Gone are the days when students had the utmost respect for their teachers. We always hear our parents and grandparents telling stories of their teachers and how their good education was just because of their efforts. Interestingly these days students call the teachers by their first names while talking about them. I would agree that the new generations have less respect and patience and being formal is just not "cool" anymore. But is this the only thing that is wrong?
-Teachers
Teachers hate their jobs, they hate their salaries and they hate children. Why anyone would bind themselves in a profession that requires extensive responsibility and time around kids? And instead of being patient, they resort to beating kids up to keep them quiet. As a result the kids get afraid of asking questions; they do poorly in the tests and they get beat up for that too, then instead of getting to the root of the problem they are beaten up some more. Finally they shut off their minds completely, either they cram their way through schools or they become the difficult ones that barely pass.
Teachers havent yet realized how different human beings are from each other. They will put everyone through the same drill, teach everyone the same subjects and the good student is the one that gets the highest marks and only he has the privilege of getting the title of class representative and he is all that the teachers live for, because he will be the perfect little employee and earn his keep while the rest are just blockheads who will just fade away from this earth so they dont need any concentration of the teachers.
-"It's not my Problem"
This is a phrase that we all have frequently heard. You present a reason for not being able to complete or perform well in a task and the very convenient reply you get is: "It's not my problem". Well of course its not your problem but would you even for a second put yourself in the students shoes and present them with a solution? It always burns me up to hear this phrase even if it's not being said to me.
-Arts Teachers
There exist art teachers in this world who do not allow you to use your own head. As baffling it may seem all my arts teachers would draw something on the board and the student who most accurately copies it gets the highest grade. Why would you even have an arts class if you just rob the kids of their imagination and creativity?
-Extracurricular Studies
Yes, you read it right. You must remember getting held up in the very short recess or after school hours by a teacher who can't finish their course in time. Whats more, as you get older, sports and games aren't encouraged because your body apparently doesn't need the exercise anymore. There used to be a time when playing sports was compulsory. They took attendance for the games periods too. However, these days you need to sit and copy whatever the teacher is writing on the board and dictating and bear the torture of the children cheering and playing outside. You too could have been out there if you were a lifeless robot that does everything like the teachers says in class.
-Discipline
Sometimes they come up with ridiculous rules like: you cannot run in the morning, your shoes have to be clean even after a games period and some unspoken ones like: you will always sit like a voiceless robot in the class. The school staff often gets so carried away with discipline that the school feels more like a prison than an educational institute. Every student is looked at like a criminal in rehab instead of a contributor to the nations future.
There are schools in which students are not allowed to read books and during their library period, they are given "The Economist" magazines while the books stay locked away in the cupboards. If God forbid a student asks for a different magazine, the librarian will coldly say: "Have you read it all? Why a thirteen year old needs to read business reviews or the stock market updates is beyond me. And then the older and wiser generation has the nerve of accusing the young of not being interested in reading.
The lab equipment is made of gold and if you use more than a few milliliters of solutions for your chemistry experiment, you will be subjected to a legal proceedings. If thats how you want your future scientists to feel in a lab then why make them feel uncomfortable in the lab at all?
-Profession Consultation
There are only three professions out there: you can become teachers, engineers or doctors. Students are never told about how many options they have, artists are always poor, politicians are bad, software professionals spend too much time in front of computers and well you can never be smart enough to run a business. When it finally comes the time to choose a professional degree or university, you are a good boy if you get admission in the best engineering or med school. Most students that were converted into mindless drones in school cannot even choose a path and the ones that have half a brain are often forced into a discipline that they don't like. Why don't you ask them what they like to do and not what you would like to see them do?
I by no means believe that all the institutes are same but we need to realize that there are a lot of things wrong with our system and education is the biggest responsibility of a nation which is often overlooked. If nations cant keep up with change and the exponential knowledge growth, the youth is not going to make things any better.
----------------
Most of them joined terrorists, religious activities, suicide bombings, scams, lack common senses, and brainwashing, every citizens made terrible choice to vote wrong people in the past and future. Pakistan doesn't have great education system, why is the lack of education a priority problem in both poor and rich people? If you have your first child, please send them to aboard.
What's solutions ?
kindly go and check how many doctors and engiineers pak produces and % of population
