Education: The answer to all our problems

I believe education is right rather than privilege for the affording class only, education is the key to almost every issue, the failure of education spread has lead to the failure of Pakistan state to achieve its potential since 1947. Pakistan is not looking committed to raise its education budget, which is equal to the money spent on building few flyovers and bridges in Lahore alone by the present PMLn government. (geo news bulletin report, 7-2-2014). The negligible budget allocated is also mismanaged; administrative incapacity has allowed corruption to thrive. Consequently, high rates of adult illiteracy, gender and regional disparities, and uncoordinated public, private and religious systems of education. In South Asia, only Afghanistan is lagging behind Pakistan, therefore the country is barely prepared to cope with the challenges faced by one of the most populous country in the world with majority of Youth Population. Moreover curricular reform of Madaris is also needed which encourages militancy and is responsible for rising terrorism activities in the country. Due to lack of logical, rational and balanced grooming of personality in educational institutes the youth is easily corrupted and exploited by religious fundamentalists, who only work to safeguard their own interests. If the majority of youth bulge is educated, that will be a big blessing as it will not only provide self-sustenance opportunities but it will drastically improve the economic development. Pakistan currently stands at 127th out of 130 countries in the global gender index, with over a third of adult women illiterate. An educated labor force can produce endless job services in education, entertainment, publishing sector and health.
Private sector educational institutes only accommodate exclusively upper ruling elite class, and the masses are left isolated, depressed and eventually only have access to madaris or start working at shops at low wages. Furthermore, our teachers at many leading universities are not sufficiently trained and merely having degrees in different disciplines but no relevant teaching expertise and experience, makes it difficult to inspire the new generation. They fail to foster healthy, critical and argumentative skills in the society that leads to less competitive graduates in the global market. Students are unable to tap their real potential and that is the reason why our academia lacks so behind in research from our counterparts. In this era of knowledge economy, if our government does not invests heavily on education, then I am afraid, we will be dwelling into major crises and it will be too late to recover.

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