My Thoughts On...

  Ok, now let’s see. Since I have written about the QAU incident, another incident has happened, in Punjab University. On the day of Holi, Hindu students were attacked and injured by an Islamic group or something, how saddening. So, before all this stuff happened I was thinking about writing on how we should change our compulsory subjects, you know how it’s compulsory in Pakistan, that we have to study Pakistan Studies in Matriculation, then Intermediate, and then in our undergraduate studies? I was thinking that they teach the same thing in matric, then college, and then university, so what’s the point of teaching the same thing again and again? We can you know, just teach it once (not saying that we don’t need to teach it, we just need to teach it once). But after the recent incidents, I have two thoughts, one is what I just said, and the second is that we should change what we teach in Pakistan Studies, how we glorify Pakistan’s dark history, how we never teach our students the fail

  Heard what happened at Quaid-e-Azam University this Monday. Such a humiliation, one of Asia’s top-ranking universities, was reduced to these trouble-mongering student groups. Violence at such a level that university needs to be shut down for an indefinite period, what a joke for an education system. This university has produced extensive research and has been responsible for so much, has a beautiful history, but its students are staining its name. But the question is, are the students really the ones in wrong here? Having student groups and student councils, is it so bad? I’ve seen many posts and stories where kids complain nowadays about how they are not given enough independence to make their own decisions, to choose for themselves, and to do as they feel, as they will. Well, the prestigious university listened and gave students all the power, gave them freedom, and students proved that they lack the mental capacity to be given such powers. Why has our education system failed us ag