Ahmet Pasha
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Disclaimer: I'm not an extreme Left or Right person. Advocating for either extreme religious stance or an over-exaggerated sense of liberalism.
Pakistan today is rife with several faults which are borderline cancers. The country miraculously teetering on brink of collapse, somehow manages to steer itself back towards sanity.
One of the most significant fault lines of Pakistan is the common Pakistani citizen, the human resource of the nation. He is the problem. He is also part of the solution but knows not. The manipulative powers that be have exploited this phenomenon to its fullest. Rendering the common bashera a completely clueless, pawn on their chessboard.
Hence we see emergence of flags of all hue and color, desecrating the national banner. Fire and brimstone rhetorical but empty speeches and generally polarizing politics. With many players being foreign sponsored anti state agents.
So in the midst of all this there is the heavy weight factor of languages, culture and traditions comes into the fray. Since these are the very things which are exploited by the power hungry politicians. We see the nation instead of having a united holistic sentiment, has instead been reduced to small communities with slight internal frictions. Especially between provinces. A phenomenon which seems to be hampering progress.
So the central argument I wanted to bring attention to is that: Why is it that people educated in english schools such as: Beaconhouse, Roots etc etc seem to have better cumulative primary skills. Why is it that they seem to have better chances of being more better off than their peers. Granted that most of these students are from well to do families. But there are also some middle class students attending such institutions as well.
Quaid e Azam M.A Jinnah was also from a middle class family. He made use of the English language to carve a completely new nation on the face of the Earth.
The point that I would like to insinuate is that by giving up languages that are only regional and dying out. And embracing the lingua franca of our time we increase the chances of Pakistan to develop significantly. As did the catholic priests, nobels and aspiring scientists with Arabic, by translating thesis & research by Muslim intellectualls into Latin. Many bright minds hungry for knowldege made long sojourns to muslim lands to learn knowledge. Historical accounts are full of the same Europeans of today lacking in proper sanitation, eating habits, civility and overall quality of life. European priests at one point in history had great difficulty in ascertaining times for religious festivities as they lacked in abilities to accurately estimate time of year, season changes etc. So I think that adopting the lingua franca of the time might prove very beneficial for Pakistan. Or at the very least there should be some way of translating modern knowledge to provincial and urdu languages. And making that knowledge accessible to the common Bashera living in a remote village in Balochistan. Making knowledge trickle down and more accessible.
And it is not just the language that is going to be adopted. Along with it comes oppurtunities to integrate work ethics and thought processes that exist in developed societies.
Do not let this article think that I condone for profit private schools. Far from it. In fact today, the quality of education is falling even in such schools. Because of the sense of monoply in the owners of such schools. Nor am I arguing that by adopting English on a national level means relinquishing one's muslim or Pakistani identity. In fact I have heard more english speaking muslim theologians who are contributing more positively to Muslims than others.
What I seek to suggest is that a lot can be achieved to implement a standardized educational system that is in line with global progress, opens the minds of students to innovation & creativity. Because every member of any institution, every MNA, every Prime Minister, Army chief is at one point a common Bashera living in Lahore, Laya, or some remote area.
This might seem a very pro-western view. And I am totally fine if anyone disagrees. But my most important concern is that the educational situation in Pakistan is in tatters. And due to this the common man is tossed around by narcissistic control freaks. Without any effective solution. In the midst of all this the intellectual cream of society is drooling over $$$ and seeking to send their children to strange lands to make money stamping machines out of them. Or "Afsars" as they are called.
Leaving only likes of uneducated crooks in power to represent the country. Who while addressing an international forum appear to be a complete laughing stock and whose vision does not exceed their own palace.
In this regard I blame the parents of the "middle generation" the one after independence from 1955 to around 1985. Which had a genuine chance of progress but it sought to blindly mimic the West and make their children $$ seeking "afsars" rather than people who actually wanted to make a difference in the field of their choosing.
This is like many other things in Pakistan is not an issue of money. It is an issue of initiative, management and getting results.
Pakistan today is rife with several faults which are borderline cancers. The country miraculously teetering on brink of collapse, somehow manages to steer itself back towards sanity.
One of the most significant fault lines of Pakistan is the common Pakistani citizen, the human resource of the nation. He is the problem. He is also part of the solution but knows not. The manipulative powers that be have exploited this phenomenon to its fullest. Rendering the common bashera a completely clueless, pawn on their chessboard.
Hence we see emergence of flags of all hue and color, desecrating the national banner. Fire and brimstone rhetorical but empty speeches and generally polarizing politics. With many players being foreign sponsored anti state agents.
So in the midst of all this there is the heavy weight factor of languages, culture and traditions comes into the fray. Since these are the very things which are exploited by the power hungry politicians. We see the nation instead of having a united holistic sentiment, has instead been reduced to small communities with slight internal frictions. Especially between provinces. A phenomenon which seems to be hampering progress.
So the central argument I wanted to bring attention to is that: Why is it that people educated in english schools such as: Beaconhouse, Roots etc etc seem to have better cumulative primary skills. Why is it that they seem to have better chances of being more better off than their peers. Granted that most of these students are from well to do families. But there are also some middle class students attending such institutions as well.
Quaid e Azam M.A Jinnah was also from a middle class family. He made use of the English language to carve a completely new nation on the face of the Earth.
The point that I would like to insinuate is that by giving up languages that are only regional and dying out. And embracing the lingua franca of our time we increase the chances of Pakistan to develop significantly. As did the catholic priests, nobels and aspiring scientists with Arabic, by translating thesis & research by Muslim intellectualls into Latin. Many bright minds hungry for knowldege made long sojourns to muslim lands to learn knowledge. Historical accounts are full of the same Europeans of today lacking in proper sanitation, eating habits, civility and overall quality of life. European priests at one point in history had great difficulty in ascertaining times for religious festivities as they lacked in abilities to accurately estimate time of year, season changes etc. So I think that adopting the lingua franca of the time might prove very beneficial for Pakistan. Or at the very least there should be some way of translating modern knowledge to provincial and urdu languages. And making that knowledge accessible to the common Bashera living in a remote village in Balochistan. Making knowledge trickle down and more accessible.
And it is not just the language that is going to be adopted. Along with it comes oppurtunities to integrate work ethics and thought processes that exist in developed societies.
Do not let this article think that I condone for profit private schools. Far from it. In fact today, the quality of education is falling even in such schools. Because of the sense of monoply in the owners of such schools. Nor am I arguing that by adopting English on a national level means relinquishing one's muslim or Pakistani identity. In fact I have heard more english speaking muslim theologians who are contributing more positively to Muslims than others.
What I seek to suggest is that a lot can be achieved to implement a standardized educational system that is in line with global progress, opens the minds of students to innovation & creativity. Because every member of any institution, every MNA, every Prime Minister, Army chief is at one point a common Bashera living in Lahore, Laya, or some remote area.
This might seem a very pro-western view. And I am totally fine if anyone disagrees. But my most important concern is that the educational situation in Pakistan is in tatters. And due to this the common man is tossed around by narcissistic control freaks. Without any effective solution. In the midst of all this the intellectual cream of society is drooling over $$$ and seeking to send their children to strange lands to make money stamping machines out of them. Or "Afsars" as they are called.
Leaving only likes of uneducated crooks in power to represent the country. Who while addressing an international forum appear to be a complete laughing stock and whose vision does not exceed their own palace.
In this regard I blame the parents of the "middle generation" the one after independence from 1955 to around 1985. Which had a genuine chance of progress but it sought to blindly mimic the West and make their children $$ seeking "afsars" rather than people who actually wanted to make a difference in the field of their choosing.
This is like many other things in Pakistan is not an issue of money. It is an issue of initiative, management and getting results.
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