Is children’s education a business or politics? Neither parents nor children have understood this so far. After receiving an education in Pakistan, children do get degrees, but the standard of their education doesn’t improve.
The reason for this is that we take children to educational institutions by force from childhood, and this pattern of violence continues throughout the institutions. Children fail to understand whether this is an injustice or if it has any benefit for them.
Ninety percent of children who pursue education remain under mental stress, and the enthusiasm for learning diminishes, but the drive to earn a degree and move forward seems to exist. Later, they do get their degrees, but the passion for progress fades away.
Education worldwide means enhancing a person’s thinking, improving their lifestyle, and gaining expertise in their field to create comforts for the world. Here, the standard of education has always been like teaching a parrot some words; the parrot repeats them but doesn’t understand what it is saying.
The benefits of education are always presented as “Get educated, and you will become rich.” “Get educated, and you will be wealthy,” and with this desire for money, when a child grows up, the most important thing for them becomes money. They consider money more important than humanity. They want to base all their relationships on money, and the people they see around them seem to be based on money too.
The true meaning of education is for a person to gain awareness. When a person becomes aware, they make proper use of their education and make their life and the lives of others easier. Today, in Pakistan, schools to universities have turned into industries focused on making money.
In these industries, expensive fees are charged to teach children, and they are burdened with the weight of books. Children’s minds are deprived of the ability to think, and they are made to memorize like parrots, and based on this memorization, they are awarded degrees.
On the other hand, those who conduct exams see it as their business, collecting money from children in exam rooms and telling them the answers to questions that will get them degrees. Those conducting the exams do not see anything wrong with it because they come from the same schools where children are reminded every month about their fees, and parents are mentally tortured that if they do not pay, their children will be deprived of education.
The government officials who run educational institutions, instead of changing the system, organize big seminars where they talk about foreign books and their methods of education, but to this day, Pakistan’s education system has not been changed. In foreign systems, children are provided with an environment at the school level that helps them improve their lifestyle, and the school environments are so interesting that children go to school with great enthusiasm to learn.
In their exams, there is no cheating, nor is money involved in the business. Seventy percent of Americans get their education from public schools and live successful lives. Why has America never turned its education system into a business? Why, in a poor country like Pakistan, are 70% of schools private, whereas in America, 70% of schools are public? Are the people of Pakistan smarter for sending their children to private schools, or are the Americans smarter for choosing public schools?
The point to think about is that American people choose public schools because they provide quality education and training that is in line with the times. There, children are neither treated harshly nor put into environments that make them afraid and run away from school.
If we talk about Pakistan’s public schools, the environment is one that children fear. This is due to the teachers and the environment there, which is like hell for children. However, the wealthy, who send their children to private schools in Pakistan, are given VIP culture, and they become accustomed to it. Later, whether they become officials or business people, they see nothing but this VIP culture and education.
After graduating from VIP culture schools, people from VIP universities get degrees but do not truly receive an education, and these are the people who, based on these degrees, occupy high positions in government institutions or large organizations. These same degrees are what our politicians use to enter politics and take control of the country.
Now, you have 70% of the public, who come from schools and universities where they have learned VIP culture. How can you expect humanity, ethics, and morals from them, when they have always been taught that the child of the wealthiest father is given the most respect in these schools and universities? Their parents are made chief guests. We have never seen a poor, honest person being made the chief guest at any event. Our education system is like an old pickle jar, and we just keep taking the pickle out and putting it in different packaging.
