Sorry guys I had gone to village due to somone's death and hence the break in blogging.Today,I had in my mind that I would blog about something about education.I know I have blogged a lot about economics so I know its a welcome change.one of the reasons for few posts for education is though the economy is constantly evolving.The educational front hardly reegisters any major changes and even the changes experienced are excruciatingly slow.Well,so I started doing some research for the educational scene of Pakistan instead of going to my usual stop and shop economics websites.AND to tell you the truth,I AM NOT PLEASED AND HERE'S WHY
'Lets begin by reviewing another popular Government canard, i.e. the state of our education in general and basic literacy in particular. We are told that the current national literacy rate is close to 60%. However, this claim is made tongue-in-cheek. Like Alice In Wonderland redefining words to mean whatever she wanted them to mean, this Government has redefined the internationally accepted meaning of literacy (understood as an ability to read and write) to mean something quite novel. In its lexicon, literacy is defined as the ability to sign ones name in English or any other vernacular. By this definition, my chauffeur who does not know his alphabet, is literate because he has learnt the penstrokes that depict his name Now aren't you glad that we already have the population chart above from which to mathematically derive our real literacy rate? How? Its really simple. All we need to start with is the 5-10 year age group at partition, endow it with a progressively rising rate of literacy to reach what the Government claims is a fact today, i.e. a net primary enrollment rate of 56% (83% gross enrollment rate less 27% dropout rate to account for the 7-8 million children out of school that the Government grudgingly acknowledges). The logic of this derivationis that every 5-years age bracket minus natural mortality in the age-group progressively graduates into the next age bracket as we scroll down through time. Thus, the 4.9 million 5-10 year-olds of 1947 will find themselves among the half a million survivors in 65-70 years old group in 2007, with only 50,000 being literate. The right diagonal triangle of this diagram is blank, and for an obvious reason. Barring the odd old fogey who is still around, these 80 plus years old former citizens of this land of the pure are already six-feet under. According to the irrefutable logic of this chart, by reading left to right against the all-important current year of 2007, we note that literate Pakistanis number 50 million or 29% of total population. However, adult literacy is barely 14% ... placing us in the happy company of the five least educated nations on earth as per the amended EFA data shown below: Country Adult Literacy
Djibouti 39%
Senegal 38%
Gambia 17% Pakistan 14%
Burkina Faso 13%
While I have happily quoted in my earlier post that my country's literacy rate is 54%.Now I have been proven wrong.It is so hurting.The most disgusting thing has to be the criteria set for literacy.What are they thinkingand I agree with the writer,my driver is also someone not to be called literate by the international definition but the government's defiitionmakes him so generously literate.Honestly this makes me think that they are not leaders but con men who deceive people to believe the UNTRUE.GOD SAVE US!
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