Hassanwazir's List: education

• they have been either sharp cookies who have undermined the nation by their deeds or dolts or on occasion they have been helpless.
• Whatever, a sorry state of affairs which today seems irredeemable as the horizon, as far as the rise and shining of any political figure to come to our rescue, is blank.
• , Mohammad Ali Jinnah realised that his country would need education were it to sustain itself, move forward and progress.
• But it was downhill from thence on
• and in the global ranking of non-school-going children we come in at a disgraceful second place
• The report is a terrible indictment of what constitutes the elite of this maggot-ridden country: countrywide universal education to the age of 16 is unlikely to be achieved within our lifetime. Punjab ‘may’ achieve its universal education in 2041, Sindh in 2049, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2064 and miserably neglected Balochistan in 2100. Are these not thoroughly shaming figures?
• Less than half the womenfolk of Pakistan have had any formal education and in the rural areas only one in three women has ever attended school.
• Apart from the sheer shame of the figures cited there is danger in this gross and willful neglect
• Our leadership will not, but it should one day, conclude, as did Lee Kuan Yew when he was building Singapore, “that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth

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