Is Education means Knowledge?

What i have understood is, Education means to deliver organized knowledge in a systematic way for a specific purpose. No matter if it is religious education or academic education or it is combating education or sports education.

I m going to talk about the academic education in Pakistan.

I have read and heard many people talking about double standard education system in Pakistan, the English medium and Urdu medium. And also about education in Pakistan and abroad.

But i never get the accurate answer of the questions, What education system we need and why and how?

First of all, no matter the education is in English or Urdu language, in a simple Government school or expensive high standard school, if the school cannot make the student a good human then such education is useless. In schools we are taught a number of stories, poems, biographies but I hardly find a teacher telling the students why they are being asked to read that stuff. May be the teachers them self don’t know also. We read, in fact just read, the stories of our heroes, our independence and our past glorious history. But why ?? May be even the people who wrote these also don’t know. Because no any activity or question are put at the end of chapters which can help the student or their teachers to know the reason of the story or article.

As told in the start, Education is delivered with a purpose. So what is the purpose of our education system these days? Do the writers of our academic books claim that, the books are organized in a way that by reading those our nation can get great leaders or devoted scientist or obedient citizens. Then very sorry to say, they live in fool’s paradise.

The teachers are equally responsible. They must understand, the teachers are mostly the first ideal person for their students. So rather that just pushing the students to study only for good marks they must teach them at least two thing, how good citizen behave and what are our responsibility as a nation. Because no matter how many stories or article a student learn, if he/she is not a good citizen, who don’t know how to behave with elders and younger and how to act on public spots ( mean while going to get a ticked should make a que and other such thing), then the education is incomplete.

And the parents also have responsibilities. A good behaving person can become a good student and good national. One thing the parents must teach their children to be loyal to their country and nation and live for the national cause.

So our Education system must be organized with a purpose that we are a nation who has to lead the world and we must learn the knowledge, skills and behaviors of great nation. Our books must be written with this purpose and our teacher must be trained to deliver this and our general life behavior, of which parents has most role, must be helpful and productive. Because if want to live for long then we must look through our education system and go for the changes which are need.

I know everyone will agree with me that a nation cannot be called a complete nation until it has a single aim and reason to live. A nation without a mission is dead. And a mission cannot be archived without devoted and helping persons. And those person are always ready to sacrifice for a big cause.

So here we should think , how much we sacrifice our personal life and things for our nation or help those who go for a big cause?? or at least we must appreciate them. But very sorrowfully we are so attached to our personal achievements and comforts that we don’t think for a national cause. All this is in front of us. But we have closed our eyes of heart and stopped our brains from thinking about bigger cause… the national cause. Just earn and work hard for our self and sleep calmly in the night. No need to waste time in discussing national issues or read about national problems or tell our friend/ family to behave like a nation and live for a bigger cause.

We should start thinking about this before it is too late.