Say No To This Education System

I will rather not comment on this year MDCAT. Many people have talked about it and I feel that pretty much sums up the situation of it. I want to talk on a bigger perspective. I want to talk about the education system of Pakistan.

First of all, I'll start from the books that we are being taught in our schools and colleges. Talking of Matric and FSC course, these books sometimes make me question the higher authority why the hell on earth do you teach these books to students? I mean these are the same old books that were studied by our teachers and parents. For god sake, it's 2017. The world is revolutionizing at such a rapid speed. Why don't you change the curriculum according to the modern era? For example, there's a chapter in Urdu named, "Mawaslaat k jaded zaraye " and that says that world is revolutionizing at such speed that we'll be able to send a picture in the next 10 year. What time are you living in? We're living in the era of VR, 3D printers etc and you're teaching us that we will be able to send pictures after 10 years. Our science subjects are not up to date. We're still behind this modern world. We don't what technology is the latest. Oh, thanks to social media updating us about this. But what if a student lives in a remote area? He won't ever know about it. So our books are not meeting the requirements of the modern world. We want to compete with the world but I'm sorry to say we can't compete with them. We lack innovation and critical thinking. By such curriculum, we will never be able to produce next Muhammad Ali Jinnah or Allama Iqbal or Dr. Abdus Salam.We lack critical thinking. We only know what our teachers tell and our teachers tell what is written in the books. We're unable to think beyond a certain limit. We can't think out of the box.

Secondly, we've indulged ourselves in the race of securing the highest marks. We judge a student on the perimeter of his marks. It's like judging Sachin Tendulkar's cricket records with Pablo Picasso's drawings or comparing a Nokia and Apple. Two people on this planet don't have the same fingerprints how can two students be same? So it's a humble request to change the perimeter of judging students. We always say that engineers don't get a job easily. It's because we're producing more engineers than our actual use. We're lacking experts in many fields. Let student study what he wants to study.

Thirdly why can't we have one education system in our country? The elite class studies Cambridge system while the middle and lower middle class has to study FSC and Matric syllabus. Why can't we have only one system in our country where you can provide a diversity of the subjects. Why?  We always talk of United Pakistan but it's impossible to have United Pakistan with different education systems.
After we're done with the FSC or A levels we come to the entrance tests. Don't you have that much trust in your examination system that you've to take the entrance test and that too from the same course which we've studied before and given the exam of it as well? We are all aware of the standard and credibility of these tests. I would rather like you to take interviews or indulge students in group activities instead of taking this test all over again. The criteria should be changed. The education system should be changed. I'll like to request everyone who's reading this post to please play your part in it.  The stage has been set. Let's not waste it. We're the change and say no this education system.



About The Author :

The writer of the article is doing MBBS from Isb. He is also the founder of an NGO "Hope"

Hope aims to end child labour and provide them with quality education