I completely agree with schooling being practical. To this day I don't get the point of those long algebra questions that started from year 6 & lasted till the end of school. Those questions took a whole wall for completion or those ridiculous questions about squar root. To this day not once have I used any of those in my practical life. Where as knowledge of geometry or questions about finding volume of mapping an area have way more practical knowledge but we're hardly taught in school. Similarly English was a compulsory subject & u have to clear it to progress on to college that's like taking the Pi** on a very large scale, when it's only taught in a way that the whole emphasis is on reading writing. A child & his family had to suffer for over 10 years for a foreign language to fu*k em over & traumatise the individual for the rest of life. On the other hand U get to read & learn about Urdu from the works of absolute losers like Ghalib & Bahadur Shah Zafar. I mean what an inspiration at a critical stage of ur life. There is a lot of other such stuff that makes my blood boil when I ponder about schooling.
I believe schooling should be light & practical with only 2 hours of classroom a day.Rest of the time there should be freedom for sports or art or any other healthy activity the child wants.The only goal for the first 5 years should be reading writing & an understanding of add up, minus divide & multiplie. After that the only subjects taught must be biology, chemistry, physics, maths or geography & history. No need for Urdu or English or any other Bullsh*t.
Schooling ought to produce strong individual people not weak complex minded sheeple. I see society using school as a means of brain washing ( in other words moulding ) a child to a certain mind set ( values if there are any apart from truth, honesty & courage ) as no less a crime than paedophilia.
& I see a great deal of value to society if Quran & other basics of religion like Namaz & wudu ate taught at the school itself & not relied up on a Molvis.
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