Dr Kamran says women educational development to bring socio-economic change
Veteran Educationist, chairman department of Urdu, PunjabUniversity, OrientalCollege, Professor Dr Muhammad Kamran said on Friday that women development in education is a powerful instrument for economic and social change in the society.
In an interview to APP, Dr Muhammad Kamran said that women can help a country to achieve its national goals via producing their uplift and minds imbue with knowledge, skills and competencies to shape its future destiny.
Kamran said that the widespread recognition of this fact has created awareness on the need to focus upon literacy and elementary education programme, not simply as a matter of social justice but more to foster economic growth, social well-being and social stability.
Dr Kamran said that education was very much connected to women’s ability to form social relationships on the basis of equality with others and to achieve the important social good of self-respect.
Education is a critical input in human resource development and is essential for the country’s economic growth, he added. “It increases the productivity and efficiency of individuals and it produces skilled labour-force that is capable of leading the economy towards the path of sustainable growth and prosperity,” he added.
Replying to a question, Dr Muhammad Kamran said that women’s education is so inextricably linked with the other facets of human development that make it a priority. Apart from the acquisition of knowledge and values conductive to social evolution, women education also enables society development and training in logical and analytical thinking.
He said education allows women to acquire organizational, managerial, and administrative skills. Moreover, enhanced self-esteem and improved social and financial status within a community was a direct outcome of women education, he added.
Therefore, by promoting education among women, Pakistan can achieve social and human development, and gender equality, Kamran said.
