Some of
the bacteria lurked into my throat, incurred cell growth, worsened my immune
system and irrevocably left me with no voice. This is the present condition of the
youth of Pakistan. Today’s headline which concocted my mind to blog on the
youth was ‘Students manhandled teachers when they refrained them from
cheating’.
The
sixteen years of my education have apprehended this fact to me that the youth
of Pakistan is divided into two sects. The factor which makes them fall into
two distinctive categories is nothing but the education standard, rather
different hues of education prevailing in the current era. Here, the
catastrophe is Pakistan doesn’t have its own specified education criteria. Education
in the primary and secondary level is either Cambridge system or the Pakistan
board system which is further divided on provincial levels. Fortunately or
unfortunately, I have been a part of both. Moreover, my secondary school used
to offer two board exams simultaneously, Punjab and Sindh, so somehow I have
seen the difference densely. It is very remorseful to write here and I won’t
prefer any non-Pakistani to read this blog but Pakistan boards have given us
nothing but cramming and cheating. This is the consequence of the malfunction
of Pakistani education system that students end up hustling and jostling their
invigilators if they are not allowed to cheat. Here, the point of concern is
what forces them to do this? Obviously, they are neither being taught this nor
it is present in Pakistani curriculum. Ask any question to a student from
Cambridge board, he would give answers and would justify his answer with logics
and reasons. On the other hand, if you would ask same thing to someone from
Pakistan board, his instant reply would be, Oh!
We have not been taught this or this
is out of our syllabus.
Now, if
we go to the university level, the criterion of admission in every university
is different. Few universities have quota system due to which students with the
urban domicile have to face tough competition for the entrance exam and many of
them loose their seats albeit they score higher than the students from rural
areas. Political influence in few renowned universities has made the education
system worse. Sometimes, studying in such universities make you feel that
pariah system is still a part of the sub-continent and nothing has changed in
these 65 years when you hear linguistic riots broken out in the domes.
Just
after the university, practical life becomes much more biased for more than half
of the students. Graduates from few top burger universities of Pakistan get
jobs as the pieces of cakes and rest of the students spend their days and
nights stipulating in front of companies and industries to hire them. This
sounds funny but these are the students who take IELTS and GRE exams, get
scholarships, go abroad, serve other nations and when they are questioned for
not being in Pakistan, their reaction is, ‘Pakistan
mein rakha kya he’. I, sometimes, but this is just sometimes, consider their
stance to be justified.
I am not
here to identify the different standards of education but at this stage I am
more concerned about what we actually have now and what these different fonts
have given us. Neither the entire write up points toward the flaws of the youth
nor does it say that whatever happens is due to teachers or the courseware
being taught in Pakistan board. The problem is with the system and the woeful
truth is that we are the ones who have made this system, we are the ones who
have let the system prevail and affect our youth and we are the ones who are
left with no voice and gesture to stand against it.
