Our education system has never kept equality since we became independent; it followed a British implemented system as well as the local education system which we call matric system. The main issue with this inequality is that the one who goes to the British implemented system (O-A levels) feels himself to be far more superior than those going to the matric system.
The message is that we have to copy the ways of the superior colonialists to make progress in life. So it’s only obvious that our role models naturally become western, whether they are sportsmen, movie idols or pop stars. Today our English-language schools produce Desi-Americans though they have never been abroad.
We should have got rid of this system a long time ago. In other colonial countries, like Singapore, India and Malaysia, they set up a unified core syllabus for the whole country. In Pakistan, the government allowed this unjust system to perpetuate.
Students educated in these schools have great advantages over the less privileged children since most of the job opportunities in prestigious civil services go to the people who can speak English well. They feel Urdu as a backward language, but they find it cool if that Urdu is mixed with some English words.
The education system also affects our dressing, living and behaviour. A simple solution to this problem is that the education system should maintain equality and follow the system established in Singapore, India and Malaysia.
QURAT-UL-AIN FARRUKH
Karachi
yes this is true!
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