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    Pakistan faces significant challenges in its education system. Only 57% of children are enrolled in primary education, and just 22% and 1.9% make it to secondary and higher education respectively. The education system comprises three parallel tracks - religious madrassas, private English medium schools, and public Urdu medium schools - each with its own weaknesses in teaching approach and quality. Key issues plaguing the education system include political interference, lack of merit-based hiring, outdated curricula and textbooks, poorly trained and paid teachers, and focus on rote memorization rather than concepts. Without reforms like increasing funding, community participation, improved teacher training, and greater privatization and accountability, future generations risk remaining uneducated.

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    Pakistan faces significant challenges in its education system. Only 57% of children are enrolled in primary education, and just 22% and 1.9% make it to secondary and higher education respectively. The education system comprises three parallel tracks - religious madrassas, private English medium schools, and public Urdu medium schools - each with its own weaknesses in teaching approach and quality. Key issues plaguing the education system include political interference, lack of merit-based hiring, outdated curricula and textbooks, poorly trained and paid teachers, and focus on rote memorization rather than concepts. Without reforms like increasing funding, community participation, improved teacher training, and greater privatization and accountability, future generations risk remaining uneducated.

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    Article 1 Out of Pakistan Educational Morass

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    Pakistan faces significant challenges in its education system. Only 57% of children are enrolled in primary education, and just 22% and 1.9% make it to secondary and higher education respectively. The education system comprises three parallel tracks - religious madrassas, private English medium schools, and public Urdu medium schools - each with its own weaknesses in teaching approach and quality. Key issues plaguing the education system include political interference, lack of merit-based hiring, outdated curricula and textbooks, poorly trained and paid teachers, and focus on rote memorization rather than concepts. Without reforms like increasing funding, community participation, improved teacher training, and greater privatization and accountability, future generations risk remaining uneducated.

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    Out of Pakistan
    Educational Morass
    Educational Institutions are cultural DNA
    A blame game is on

    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%

    Crises of Quantity

    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?

    society nurtures and


    develops those institutions
    that it needs for its survival,
    prosperity, and development

    Answer

    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)

    Three Parallel Education Systems

    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

    Question of Quality

    Curriculum

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

    More

    Funds, greater allocation of state


    revenue
    Community Participation
    Teachers Training
    Selective Privatization
    Independent Examination Board

    Solutions

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

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