Agreed. I did a fair bit of research in this and will be looking to open a small school in Pakistan focusing on developing critical thinking with strong focus on languages, sciences, maths and Islam. Project is still on the papers and I'm looking for the right people in PK to have further discussions.
In short, we need to move away from our current Matric and this GCE systems. These are enforced systems on us (by Industrialists, who took the Prussian concept of controlling the society by controlling the children) to produce dumb down managers for the Industrialists and these humans by age of 18 can't even fry an egg properly (survival is a far stretched imagination)! Human mind is like a sponge until puberty, thereon the absorption rate slows down. And one will be amazed at what kind of human a REAL education of 15 years (age 3 to age 18) can produce. I can assure you that an 18yrs old science student (for example) through a well planned 15yrs education system will be far more intelligent, skilled and principled human with a solid aim in and understanding of life than fresh out of uni 4yrs bachelor's degree holder.
And in this system, there is no ranking system as ranking system ruins humans. There is no measure of success per se. Each human is encouraged to do what they love doing and excel at it. It is amazing how humans transfer skills learnt in sports to business in a different part of their life, so nothing is discouraged. Very relaxed environment, one subject a day, class of 15 max. Upto age of 9 (first 6 years), only languages and maths taught - nothing else!
Mono-tone or trend following parents (who won't get this concept at all or for other reasons) will obviously not want their kids through this education system (although GCEs/Matric/FA/FSC etc will be offered). Teachers can be hired from a large resource pool available and trained by the right people. Running costs is a major hurdle at the moment as mainly it will start with kids from poor backgrounds so no fees revenue - although intention is that one fee paying student covers the fees of a poor non-fee paying student. Not for profit but got to pay for teacher fees, food (children will be given low fat high nutrition food during school time), and other fixed costs. But it's do-able, and will drive it properly after my return to PK.
14-15yrs of continuous education in current system produces humans that are utterly dependant on their parents, can't think clear (forget critical thinking) and do dumb things, and parents measure how well they are being educated via the grades. Cram, cram and cram some more stuff that's utterly useless in life to get good grades. Then get screwed in life working for someone and never being able to do something wonderful and amazing on your own! The whole world is full of such people, even those from very good Western universities. Is this how we want to continue in Pakistan?
