What are they Teaching in Pakistani Schools Today?

(First a note of protest to the dear Chowk Staff:

Yaaro kiyouN weekend kharaab kartay hou? Sanjeeda baatain srif weekdays maiN ho to behtar hay.)


I hate to say this but in this article Pervez Hoodbhoy never mentioned once the greatest calamity for the ills of government sponsored education in Pakistan. Yes the K word. The disproportionately bloated defense spending has created hollow governmental structures everywhere. Education being one of them.

It is indeed ironic that all trails probing local catastrophes lead in the direction of our dubious foreign policy. And its enforcer.

We can identify and debate the visible symptoms in the system and suggest cures as he (P.H.) has done so well here. But unless the root cause is attacked, all else will result in cosmetic surgery only. Time, effort and money wasted curing the symptoms while the unattacked cancer is spreading merrily throughout the body.

The meagre resources of the state have to be nurtured and spent NOW for the FUTURE. Not wasted to preserve the mythical boundaries and boundry-keepers that may not exist tomorrow.

No wonder our literacy rate has gone down in the last 53 years. Another dubious distinction.

sadly,

temporal