Make the meritorious ones join teaching
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Like other sectors, education is controlled by mediocre people. We have employed those people in the universities, colleges and schools who gave highest amount of donation or are affiliated with the ruling party. This system has systematically excluded the good ones from the educational institutions. Most of the teachers in primary and secondary levels follow certain cheap notebooks and do not give marks to the student whose answers do not match with the answers given in those notebooks. Cramming answers from the notebooks have been causing to erode the creativity of the students. Small wonder now we find a few students who can write an essay on their own. The government has tried many a time to remove notebooks from the market but in vain, thanks to the syndicate of shady publishers. Our enemy back in 1971 killed our leading intellectuals with a view to break our backbone. Still we are not able to put education on a solid foundation due to pervasive corruption in this sector. We must devise a plan to rid the education sector of mediocrity and criminality and give incentive to the meritorious people to join teaching profession, ensure them status and higher pay. There is no alternative to this if we want to cope with the challenge of the 21st century.
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