Article 1 Out of Pakistan Educational Morass

Educational Institutions are cultural DNA A blame game is on

Crises of Quantity
Children not in School: 27.9 mill Illiterate adults: 43.5 mill Mean Schooling: 1.9 yrs Daily Newspaper: 15/1000 Primary enrolment: 57% Secondary education: 22% Higher education: 1.9%

What is the first necessary step

A Positive Mindset

A Big Puzzle
Public Education System does not work while other institutions of society does, Why?

Answer A society nurtures and develops those institutions that it needs for its survival, prosperity, and development

Three Parallel Education Systems

Madarssah (Students empty vessels,
questioning not welcomed, teaching style authoritarian, punishment common, memorization crucial)

English medium/ Private ( gora values

brown in skin but English in other aspects)

Urdu medium/ Public (best breed of

parrots, concepts not clear, examination a test of memory)

Question of Quality
Political and bureaucratic interference Lack of merit based appointment Lack of Internationally comparable learning outcomes Lack of high quality teacher Lack of accountability Corruption in awarding contracts

Four Crucial Action Areas

Curriculum (role of CW) Textbooks (badly written with many mistakes) Teachers Training (disillusioned, professionally inactive, poorly paid) Examination (test of memory)

Solutions
More Funds, greater allocation of state revenue Community Participation Teachers Training Selective Privatization Independent Examination Board

Lesson learnt

If the present education System remains unchanged, the generation to come will largely be uneducated or even worse miseducated