Education System, Pakistan

 

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 failures of Pakistan and just successes.

Improvement starts by admitting we were on the wrong path, we need to admit that in the past 75 years, we have FAILED! We have failed to construct an education system that can shape people, we have failed to create businesses, and we have failed as a nation, as Muslims, as Pakistanis. What harm is there in just admitting our failure, we have to realize our wrong direction, and only then we can move onto a better tomorrow. We have to make Pakistan Studies compulsory, but only once, in either matric, college, or university, and we have to make it also compulsory to teach how our democracy failed over and over again, how our constitution failed over and over again, how our armed forces lied to us over and over again, how our so-called leaders profited off of our miseries over and over again, how our civil servants only served themselves over and over again!

Let us rebuild Pakistan after this, let us build a stronger Pakistan, a self-aware Pakistan, a cleaner Pakistan, a more honest Pakistan, and a safer Pakistan.

Now that my emotional rant has ended, let’s discuss the education and curriculum thing. What do we replace it with? What do we replace the compulsories removed from the course outline with? We can add a bunch of important and must-know subjects. Subjects that will guide our people. Like, off the top of my head, we can just add a course on doing one’s taxes, I cannot stress how important that is right now, we can add a subject on SexEd, also important, we can add a course on traffic laws, law In general maybe. I study currently, at NUST, and we have a four-year degree filled with useless humanities courses, which are honestly useless, so why not just you know learn about doing taxes and stuff? There can be a course on responsibilities as a citizen, also micro and macroeconomics. Everyone should know how Pakistan operates and what part they have in this country. The only goal of education is not to learn just enough English to apply for a visa to other countries but to make our people productive, teaching them skills. Frankly, our education system right now is garbage, every single university in Pakistan right now, barring a few, are garbage too. I might sound harsh but it’s the truth, stings, but it is what it is. We need a radical change in our education system, and I am just not seeing anyone slightly concerned about this.