Miseducation of Pakistan’s public schools
Ehsan Masood writes on Open democracy:
On 30 November 2006, Pakistan announced what must count as one of the more far-reaching educational reforms for a generation: from September 2007, English will replace Urdu as the language in which science and mathematics will be taught in all state schools. At a stroke, the government has chosen to reverse the policy introduced two decades ago under the military regime of General Zia ul-Haq (1977-88), whereby English is not formally taught in state schools until a child reaches the age of 10.
I think English will bring more cultural pollution and destruction of traditional Pakistani values. Hence, I believe Pakistani pupils will be better off by sticking with their mother tongue; Urdu!
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