Have you ever thought why is education so expensive? Why are teachers putting so much high demands for teaching a class? Why every student is running after marks but not gaining intelligence?
A teacher is understood to be one of the respectable person of a society. If you are not treating him with respect then you are doing wrong. Even Islam teaches us to treat a teacher with immense respect. We have so many examples in Islam and our predecessors telling us the status of a teacher. But, does our this Islam asks a teacher to charge 10,000 to 15,000 a month for teaching a single student?
For a school, there is an assembly time, in which there is a famous Dua written by Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal. I will quote a line of that Dua which says
"Ilm ki shamma se ho mujh ko mohabbat ya rab"
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The students are just made to cram this line but not understand this. How will a child love education if you are imposing education on him but not making him love his work. The newly introduced education system lacks vision and direction. Focus is on how to lure out good grades from the students whether it is through screaming over a kid in class or by punishing him harshly over time. Opting the trend of ratta system is destroying the mental power of students. The meaning of education is not learning by fear of getting punished but by knowing that education is necessary for bright future.
Women play very important role in the nourishment of a country. Our leader, the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam always emphasized on the women education. The should stand by men in building nation. The Human Development Report (HDR) listed Pakistan in the category of "low human development" countries with a female literacy rate of 30%. Women now a days in rural areas are still not allowed to leave home and get education.
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| Source: PCST (SURVEY 2010-2011)
In private sector, education is far more expensive that is even out of the reach of a labor's son/daughter. Due to lack of facilities by the government parents are helpless to provide their child with better school environment. Government educational institutes are run by government fund which is not provided by the institutes properly because of corruption and millions of children remain uneducated and suffer. In Government schools mostly mediocre and poor class people are seen as they cannot afford private education. For this either government should take control over corrupt working of high authorities in schools or take a look over high fees in private institutions.
One of the drawbacks which Pakistan education is facing is low investment of the public in this sector, which is only 2 to 2.2 % of the total GDP. Although the provincial government has stated to increase this to almost 7 % which would be a live miracle if achieved.
The percentage share of education in Punjab’s overall budget has seen downfall from 26 per cent in 2013-14 to 18.6 per cent in 2016-17
In the end, we should think that are we walking on the footsteps of our ancestors or there is a change, a change that needs to be changed again. Teachers are not the same, education is not the same, system is not the same and thought has been changed. We need to change also.
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