Education policy
Mr Kishore Mahbubani, a senior Singapore Diplomat now is Dean of "The Lee Kuwan Yeu School of Public Policy" in the National University of Singapore has published a book "The New Asian Hemisphere: The irresistible shift of global power to the East." He mainly ascribed success of East Asian economies to the adoption of seven pillars of western wisdom. These are:
(a) Free market economies, (b) Science and Technology, (c) Meritocracy, (d) Pragmatism, (e) a Culture of peace, (f) The rule of law & (g) Education.
Our learned academicians, members of the civil society, both active and retired military and civil service bureaucrats are found busy in delivering sermons through seminars, talk shows on television, hundreds/thousands of newspaper columns in both languages, but never we came across brilliant ideas outlined above.
A few months ago Professor Muzaffar Ahmed suggested full transformation of the education system with a view to making the country capable of meeting the challenge ahead. Quality of our education has gone down, examples of which galore before us. With consternation, we observed how our workers were deported from middle eastern countries, Malaysia for disobeying the laws of those countries mainly due to lack of proper education and culture only because at home they did learn lawlessness by resorting to hartal, gherao, road block, damage to properties, capture of student dormitories etc.
Our present government has constituted a committee to formulate an education policy based on Dr Kudrat-e-Khoda Commission report. It is expected that the committee members being dictated by sagaciousness and wisdom shall frame a policy to suit the nation for the next 50 years.
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