...Flaws in Pakistan’s Education System Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences; Vo. 4 No.1 Flaws in Pakistan’s Educational System Hina Rehman* Dr. Nushad Khan† Abstract The paper aims to identify prevalent problems in the Pakistani educational system with a view to find out their solution. Education system of any country is meant to equip and facilitate the nation to pursue national goals and strengthen its ideological foundations. Presumably the existing education system of the country has failed to deliver matching response to the call of our national objectives and aspirations. Introduction Education plays an important role in political stability, economic development and social progress of a nation. It brings political stability by realizing the people their national rights and duties and thus through awareness of their rights and duties, a very good environment is created for better implementation of the policies and good participation and cooperation of the people. Education brings economic development because it enhances the productivity and efficiency of the people, and provides them necessary skills which enable the people to play their role in supporting the sustainable economic growth of the country. Education shapes the personality of the people, seeks them moral obligations and duties, so they can play their part in the society. Today Pakistan is facing a number of problems i.e. poverty, insecurity, terrorism, sectarianism and many more and base provided to all...
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...Indian Education System: What needs to change? What do we need to change about the Indian Education System? Education has been a problem in our country and lack of it has been blamed for all sorts of evil for hundreds of years. Even Rabindranath Tagore wrote lengthy articles about how Indian education system needs to change. Funny thing is that from the colonial times, few things have changed. We have established IITs, IIMs, law schools and other institutions of excellence; students now routinely score 90% marks so that even students with 90+ percentage find it difficult to get into the colleges of their choice; but we do more of the same old stuff. Rote learning still plagues our system, students study only to score marks in exams, and sometimes to crack exams like IIT JEE, AIIMS or CLAT. The colonial masters introduced education systems in India to create clerks and civil servants, and we have not deviated much from that pattern till today. If once the youngsters prepared en masse for civil services and bank officers exams, they now prepare to become engineers. If there are a few centres of educational excellence, for each of those there are thousands of mediocre and terrible schools, colleges and now even universities that do not meet even minimum standards. If things have changed a little bit somewhere, elsewhere things have sunk into further inertia, corruption and lack of ambition. Creating a few more schools or allowing hundreds of colleges and private universities...
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...Compared to the education systems of other countries the United States education system leaves a lot to be desired. While South Korea, Japan, and Singapore uses a qualifications system and are continuously the world leading educational systems,the United States struggles to make the top 20 year after year. Despite being one of the strongest economies in the world and the 1.3 trillion dollar national educational budget the education system in the United States just cannot compete with a qualifications system. A qualifications system is a uniform education system with a series of key gateway exams to test the progress and preparedness of students. By creating a common curriculum set by the state everyone is held to the same standard and given...
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...mistaken to claim that the United States’ approach to assimilating immigrants has been a successful one, in social terms. Fukuyama (2008) argues that the biggest challenge in achieving democracy is to assimilate citizens in a manner that would not provoke anger from either the immigrants or “right-wing populists” (p. 269). A bigger problem yet, is to impose a new national identity on the immigrants to enable them to connect with other citizens of different religions, ethnicities, and backgrounds into “a common democratic culture” (p. 270). He suggests that this could be achieved much like how the “American creed has served to unite new immigrants to the United States” (p. 270). These statements show that Fukuyama fails to recognize the flaws in the immigration assimilation method. Immigrant assimilation is assessed by four benchmarks: socio-economic status, geographic distribution, the attainment of a second language, and intermarriage. Although some immigrants do fulfill the four benchmarks with success, most immigrants do not. Most immigrants face hardships in trying to promote themselves to a higher socioeconomic status. That main underlying reason is because most immigrants arrive to the U.S as low-skilled laborers; the tools they have to elevate their socioeconomic...
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...December 8, 2011 The Problem Even Congress Cannot Fix: Inequality in America The big story that has been all over the news in recent times is none other than the massive bear of a problem: inequality in America. This not so white elephant has dominated American news stations, but nonetheless has not been resolved. There is without a doubt financial inequality in America, and the main problems with this financial inequality are the flawed educational system where rich dumb kids have a much better chance to graduate college than a hard working poor kid, and the increasingly large gap between the rich and the poor. The cause for the problem of unequal opportunity in schooling is inherently the quality of instructors and schools across the nation, and the cause for the overwhelming rift between social classes is a flawed tax system which punishes success and benefits the poor. Furthermore, the solutions for these two massive problems would be to reform the American educational system to a performance based system and a reformed tax system that broadens the tax base and encourages success. Certainly, the level of financial inequality is an issue. But, why is it such an issue? One of the major underlying problems with financial inequality is the face that rich dumb kids that maybe be in the bottom twenty-five percent of their school but come from families that are in the top twenty-five percent of the socio-economic spectrum have a significantly higher chance of finishing college...
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...No Child Left behind Act– Final ENG 122 English Composition II August 19, 2014 The No Child Left behind Act has weakened the sense of community in the educational system, often causing a sense of hopelessness to be more obvious among disadvantaged students or neglected educational systems. Throughout the ages one theme among a populace of peoples of common mind, language and religion along with survival that has maintained its importance is education or knowledge of its peoples. People throughout the ages attained different degrees of education but its importance was vital to the survival and advancement of what once were nomadic tribes to the nation states we now know of today. Many famous philosophers liked to give their opinion on the merit of a good education, their disgust with ignorance or how education or the lack of knowledge was a powerful political tool. While ignoring the fact that an education wasn’t available to all people’s and in many parts of the world this is still the case even in the twenty-first century. Take a look at a world map, how many continents can you name? How many countries can you identify? How many of those countries speak a common language and share common ideals and values, forms of governance and religion. That wouldn’t be possible without an education or a system that at least at some basic level provided for an increase in the general of its people. The mighty and the great, the warriors and the kings, along with the humble peasant...
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...Mike Rose is an author, poet, teacher, and National Academy of Education award winner. One of Roses novels is known as “Lives on the Boundary”. In the novel Rose takes insight on the educational system of Our Lady Mercy a school to which he used to attend. Rose criticizes the flaws and rewards and depicts the value of education as a whole. In “Lives on the Boundary” there is an excerpt known as “I Just Wanna Be Average”. This section specifically addresses Rose’s thoughts and portrays his conclusive argument on the matter. Rose essentially makes a testament to say particular educational systems lack consistency in their ability to produce teachers and curriculums that will support and challenge students, though when said factors are present...
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...Is the education system working for everyone or just a select few? Is the system that is in place only working for the up class and singling out minorities? The educational system can have its flaws in the learning outcome of students that come from lower income families and neighborhoods. After researching some information on the problems of the American Dream and the issues of the reasons to the outcome of the future of the educational system. In the article From Linda Darling-Hammond “Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education”. discusses about the problems of the educational system that students face in the United states and the causes that make this happen in the prosses of learning. Sometimes a problem can be when students don’t get the...
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...In his essay “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” the author, Jonathan Kozol, based his essay on the interviews and observation that he had with many of the still racially segregated schools in America and his personal thought of the situation. In the first few sections of his essay, Kozol stressed the racial problem that he observed with most of the Western schools that he visited, such as the public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and etc, that approximately more than ninety percent of the students being enrolled in those schools are African American, Hispanic, and students of another race; furthermore, other schools named after great people, such as MLK and Thurgood Marshall, are also racially segregated schools as well. In an attempt to have a better understanding of the problem with those racially segregated...
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...favourable, on what ground those religious courses be taught on should they be incorporated into the school system, and the invalidity of Nord's argument in favour of religion in public school. Where Nord believes that the reason religion should be studied in schools is to provide balance with the large amount of secular courses taken, Feinberg disagrees, stating that this is not reason enough to evoke the mandation of religion courses. Rather, Feinberg feels that since students are exposed to an environment instilled with religion, providing them different perspectives of their current understandings may envoke self-reflection and self-criticism towards their own beliefs. Moreover, he states that this type of learning will promotoe critical thinking due to the exposition of alternative worldviews because it introduces them to a different way that they see the world. Feinberg goes on further to say that a way of going about this would be to allow students to interpret sacred texts, but having them understand it the way they choose to. As a result, this aim brings forth the idea of what grounds these religious courses should be taught on. The basis on which religion is to be taught on should religious classes be made mandatory in public schools, can be approached in several ways. According to Nord, religion must be taught in school on the basis of constitutional and educational grounds. Otherwise, students will falsely learn that all people are...
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...should have a limited role in citizens’ lives, was elected president in 1800. During his two terms in office (1801-1809), the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark explored the vast new acquisition. Although Jefferson promoted individual liberty, he was also a slave-owner. After leaving office, he retired to his Virginia plantation, Monticello, and helped found the University of Virginia. Jefferson attacked this system by helping abolish primogeniture and entail, two long-standing traditions that directed inheritances to a single heir. Under the new system, a more equal distribution of lands was encouraged. Since only landowners were eligible to vote, an increase in the number of landowners would increase the number of eligible voters. Further, by making immigration a less complicated and exclusive process, new families arrived in droves and began to settle along the frontier. Eventually, Jefferson reasoned, these measures would help to efface the influence of the long-standing oligarchy of large landowners. From an educational, legal and religious standpoint, Jefferson's values were ahead of the curve, and his policies were correspondingly bold. However, with regard to slavery, Jefferson suffered from a truly...
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...Social hierarchies are social differentiations based on education level, training, knowledge,and skills. The 1997 film Gattaca details the effects of determining a society's structure based solely on human capability testing, in which test results decide the fate of each individual with little to no freedom of choice. The film combines science and social hierarchies to argue that science and technology have the ability to create social hierarchies that go beyond educational, racial, or economic status and have the ability to manipulate and create new hierarchies through genetic manipulation, but will never be able to effectively build social structure because of individuals’ determinism and inevitable motivation to break free, like Vincent...
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...China’s singletons – the first generation to grow up after the one-child policy was instated, showing a whole picture of the consequences of the world’s first state-mandated fertility transition. China’s one-child policy was designed to create a generation of ambitious, well-educated children that would lead China into the First World. The policy was bred to adapt to the changes demanded by the cultural model of modernization. Through the study, Vanessa L. Fong shows us the social consequences and implications on the singletons resulting from this policy. In a word, the strategy has succeeded, but at a price. Singletons enjoy high living standards, educational opportunities and more concentrated love in the family than before. However, they are also facing intense parental pressure and competition for elite status in the educational system and the job market, as well as the accusation that they were spoiled since they have unrealistically high expectations. I highly enjoyed reading the book Only Hope. During reading, I found a phenomenon that singletons were eager to find a good job and it was of great importance to them. There are underlying socioeconomic reasons related to the one-child policy. Therefore, in this reaction paper, I am going to discuss about the employment problem of the singletons, which is becoming another social issue and drawing more attention in recent years. China entering “one child society” Chinese government started population campaign since 1970s, encouraging...
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...CHANGE IN EDUCATION SYSTEM “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Is said by Margaret Mead. This is probably one of the best lines said by our elders to portray our present day education. What is meant by education? It is a form of learning to enchance our knowledge and skills and a habit of passing on what we learned to our next generation. An article on “Indian Education - Past, Present and Suggestions for Future” by Thomas Babington Macaulay stated there were 7.5 lakh Gurukuls before the british invasation in india and their strength varied from 200 to 20,000, Whereas in Britain there were hardly 250 schools. This clearly shows us that India was once highly literated and well versed in our education system then when india falled in the hands of Britain and we started praising and embracing whatever was western. Our teaching method slowly got destroyed and the trend of theoretical learning only through books increased and the practical application of what we learned got declined. At the same point the rapid increase in our population let to the emergence of various institutions with low quality education. As a result of various institutions evolving rapidly like a fire, education became a business sector and then it was lead by public and private organisation with a tough competition. The education system in India is provided by both government and private organisations and it comes under 3 levels. * Central...
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...Terranova Sea land Society has never been never perfect, though the citizens' loved to act like it was. The educational system was full of flaws, yet no one was brave enough to step up and make a difference. The government was corrupt and full of faults. There were decisions being made based off of racist stereotypes and society rankings. Trust was broken when legal rights were broken, it was broken when the government started making irrational decisions based off of feelings and skin color rather than facts. Trust was broken when the government started to do things for the wrong reasons. A more perfect society is not what the people are aiming for. This society will be different in many aspects. Starting with a better education system. Second,...
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