EDUCATION SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN

What is education?
1. Education is increase in :
 Stock of skills
 Knowledge
 Understanding possessed by individuals or society
2. Delivery of knowledge and skills from teachers to students
What is an education system?
1. Education system includes :
 Institutions involved in delivering formal education.
 Bodies directly involved in financing, managing, operating or regulating such institutions
2. Rules and regulations guiding individual and institutional interaction.

IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION:
AYATS:
“Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, who taught (to write) with the pen, who taught man
what he knew not.”(Qur’an, 96-3-5).
To seek knowledge is a sacred duty , it is obligatory on every Muslim, male and female. The first
word revealed of the Quran was ‘’IQRA’’ means READ.
“Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?” (Al-Zumr, ayah 9)
AHADEES:
The Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him and his progeny) has also emphasized the importance
of seeking knowledge in different ways:
(a) Time: "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."
(b) Place: "Seek knowledge even if it is far as China."
(c) Gender: "Seeking of knowledge is a duty of every Muslim"
(d) Source: "Wisdom is the lost property of the believer, he should take it even if finds it in the
mouth of a mushrik."
The Prophet did not only preach about importance of knowledge, he also gave examples of
promoting knowledge. In the very first battle between the Muslims and unbelievers or Mecca,
known as the war of Badr, the Muslims gain victory and caught seventy kuffars as prisoners of
war. One of the criteria of releasing the POWs devised by the Prophet was that those who were
literate among the prisoners could go free if they teach ten Muslim children how to read and
write.
QUAID’S WORDS:
“EDUCATION IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH FOR PAKISTAN. THE WORLD IS
PROGRESSING SO RAPIDLY THAT WITHOUT REQUISITE ADVANCE IN EDUCATION,
NOT ONLY SHALL WE LAG BEHIND OTHERS BUT MAY BE WIPED OUT
ALTOGETHER.”
EDUCATION SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN
Divided into six levels:
 Primary
 Middle
 High
 Secondary
 Higher secondary
 University

CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN
‘’THE STATE SHALL PROVIDE FREE AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION TO ALL
CHILDREN OF THE AGE OF FIVE TO SIXTEEN YEARS IN SUCH A MANNER AS MAY
BE DETERMINED BY LAW’’.(Article 25-A)
BY :
NABILA RIAZ