Education

Education plays an imperative role in the development and progress of any nation of the world. Its role in the amplification of any state can, in no way, be underestimated. No country of the world can walk on the pavement of prosperity and progress until and unless each and every citizen of the state is not endowed and equipped with the ornament of education as an educated man deals in his daily chores for better than an illiterate and uneducated man. The country is facing the critical crises and one of the reasons for that is the deteriorating condition of education in this country. The state of affairs of education in this country is worse in general and the worst particularly in Sindh. Despite all claims government as well as ministry of education direly fails in re opening of the schools under the control of feudal lords that are being used as the go downs and meeting places of their. Even the schools that are functional are not rendering their duties properly as many of these schools hardly succeed in bringing positive results. Many government teachers and professors are working in different NGOs, media and in many other civil organizations and hardly attend their classes regularly. They visit their respective schools and colleges once in a blue moon to sign in their registers and or to get their pay slips. Syllabi have not been revised since ages. Teachers are not well trained, old methodology of the teaching dominates over all the schools which results in the lack of innovation and creativity among the students. The role of civil society and media adds fuel to the fire as all of them have not shown their concern. In this land of protest not even a single protest has been recorded. The silence of `intellectuals, writers and journalists, over the issue also join in hands for the aggravation condition of education. And it is illegible to me why the concerned authorities are silent over the issue though premier has announced 2000 year as the year of education but it has not produced encouraging results since then. In order to reform education bold steps and practical decisions need to be taken on the government side and the members of society including writers, intellectuals and journalists too put in their sincere efforts to join in hands with the government for this noble cause.

Vijesh Kumar

Ghotki