Good suggestions
Here are my comments on Professor Zeba Seraj's article on the recent Education Policy published in the Op-Ed page of your daily on Saturday, the 17th October. Some of the ideas enumerated there are excellent. If our past experience serves as a guide, the implementing machinery falls far short of our expectations. For instance, we know that textbooks published by the Text Book Board are below standard containing unattractive pictures and sometimes disproportionate ones which create wrong impressions among young minds. For instance, a Nature's Study book prescribed for 5th grade shows a tiny moss larger in size than a large fern plant. I brought this discrepancy to the attention of the Chairman Text Book Board but without any effect. He promised to look into the matter but could not do anything because of the environment that prevails in such an organisation. UNESCO, ISESCO can help in the printing of quality books with nice illustrations but such a noble move will be resisted tooth and nail by the interested parties who control the textbooks market.
Then a good practice such as to earn an SSC certificate, a student must impart adequate knowledge about alphabets and numbers was discontinued with regime change. I do not know who is at fault, but everyone will agree it was a wrong decision.
What I would humbly suggest is that divide the programme into at least three stages and tackle each programme at a time. Such a step in my humble opinion will take the country a step forward, instead of allowing it to wait for years, as it happened in the case of Qudrat-e-Khuda Education Commission report.
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