An Article by Munium Ali
Khan
Class: M.A (Previous)
Roll No: 43
Educational Disorders in
Sindh
Education for any nation is like a soul for a body, if
the soul has been weak, fragile and ill, drilled by one’s own devilish acts,
apparently his body is going down and is not supposed to be well.
As the above mentioned instance, in Pakistan, despite
having 68 years of independence, we are yet being counted as a nation of the
Third world, reasons and causes as apparent as the sun that our education,
educational quality and educational system, generally in all over Pakistan, and
especially in Sindh province, have entirely defunct and have not yet been
achieved even the competition level so as to compare and compete West.
It would
probably be a joke or an unbelievable news for an ‘outsider’ from a foreign
country, if he knows that we confront miscellaneous
educational system in our country, which are officially approved by relevant
authority, instead of having one distinguished and authentic educational system
in spite the fact that we are supposed to be one nation.
So far as our Sindh province is concerned,
regretfully, there are a pile of issues to discuss with. But no doubt these
educational setbacks either belong to Sindh Government’s educational authority
and the society too. Both are accountable to their deeds.
As far as the Sindh Government goes, the main problem
is that the flood of corruption has not only covered other institutions of
Sindh Government, but it has also filled the educational institutions up with
its flooded waves of corruption and devastated merit in Sindh.
Other serious point
to be noted is that disorganized and uncomputraized attendance system is one of
the foremost reasons in educational mismanagement in Sindh and because of this,
many students tend to think that their attendance will be reported clear and at
least with average days of attendance, so due to this reason they do not go to
school and colleges on daily basis and their parents are deceived by their
daily going to schools or colleges, but reality is that their beloved children
wander aimlessly around the streets and in alleys with their classmates.
And what can we say about final/board exams? Students
do know that there will be ‘assistance’ by their ‘supporting staff’ for promoting
copy culture and in making this society ‘more honest’ with their duties than
they are. There is, of course, no doubt that copy culture in Sindh has been a
severe tragedy and a stigma for us not only in Sindh but all over the country
too.
Lack of official check and balance, bereft of stern inspections
by relevant authority are also important reasons in destroying the quality
education in Sindh. Ghost schools, invisible teachers in government schools,
mismanagement in conducting examinations and their results, these types of
issues stem from due to lacking in strict checking and inspections. When you
walk through the streets in Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities in Sindh, you
will find yourself surrounded with a lot of private schools and tuition coaching
centers with having different attractive names and, amazingly, they are all
claimant of providing ‘quality education’ but bitter reality is that most of
them even do not have qualified teaching staff because they have no fears of
inspections of relevant official authority because they do know no one will
come here in order to check that what is happening here and to check this thing
that future of Pakistan is being ravaging here by some ‘educated people’.
On the other hand, basically in Sindh our society is
also unaware of the importance of having education. They do not recognize the value
and importance of education in this modern era. In Sindh, there are two types
of people existing among us, one who
even do not know and, maybe, do not want know due to their ignorance and due to
the lack of awareness of having good education these days, that what is
education and how an educated and learned person differ from an ignorant one,
the second one belongs to those people who have this negative thinking approach
which usually occupies the masses’ mindset and mentality that the education is
just like a formality and a stepping stone to a job; they do not think that
quality education is a basic and most indispensible right of their children and
they have a great responsibility for the posterity and for the upcoming
generation who will be the future and the destiny of Pakistan, they consider
their children only being a part of their family, but they do not contemplate
about this that their children will also be the citizens of Pakistan.
In addition, most populace of Pakistan is always
willing and ready to spend their money to buy expensive clothes, mobile phones,
etc. without any particular need and plausible reasons, maybe for showing off,
but we will find them unwilling to spend their money on educational purposes
which will bring up prosperity and integrity in their life.
To put it in a nutshell, as a nation practically we
have not decided yet that what we want to be in future? An educated and
civilized nation which is standing on its own and ready to compete with others
in every field of this industrial and competitive world or a nation which will
be counted as a part of the Third World, because one thing is clear to say that
as a nation without having quality education we will remain in the Third World,
and if we do not rejuvenate our entire educational system as soon as possible,
we are going to be ruined and, maybe, an extinct nation.
