Pervez Hoodbhoy Criticises Imran Khan Government For Islamisation Of Education In Pakistan

Pakistan's Education System Is The Worst In The World Main Points: 1. Single National Curriculum was a political project of Imran Khan govt. 2. Pakistan's education system has been Islamised. 3. Afghanistan made progress before Taliban's ascent. ---- By New Age Islam Staff Writer 17 April 2022 In an online discussion Pakistan's educationist and scientist Pervez Hoodbhoy criticises Pakistan's education system and describes it as the worst education system in the world. He compares Pakistan's education system with that of Afghanistan and find's the latter better than Pakistan's. He holds the messy state of affairs in the education departments and the corruption in the text book boards responsible for the educational backwardness of Pakistan. To add to the existing problems, the Single National Curriculum, introduced by the Imran Khan government, is meant for the merger of religious education with secular education. Under the SNC, the students will have to learn the Quran in Arabic with its Urdu translation; hadith in Arabic with its Urdu translation and many prayers for every step during the day. For example, they will learn dua to be recited before having meal, after having meal, dua to be recited while climbing up the stairs and climbing down the stairs, and many more and this will leave them with less time for actual learning and creative thinking. Then, this new system proposes Islamisation of all the subjects like science, history, English, Physics, Chemistry etc. All the subjects will be taught from an Islamic point of view. Pervez Hoodbhoy says that merging the madrasa education system with secular education system will create problems. It had been dreamt of before but could not be realised in any Muslim country in the last 300 years because the objectives of the two systems are radically different. Mr Hoodbhoy compares the educational curriculum and textbooks of Afghanistan better than Pakistan's. He says that the progress Afghanistan's education system has made durig the last ten years before the ascent of Taliban has lessons for Pakistan. They have kept religious education and secular education separated and their text books are better designed. The language, illustrations and graphics in these text books are at par with those of India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. He says that Bangladesh has made much progress in this field and admits that India has surged way ahead of Pakistan in the field of education. In short, Pervez Hoodbhoy believes that the Single National Curriculum was only a political project of the Imran Khan government and would prove a disaster for Pakistan's education system. < URL: https://www.newageislam.com/multimedia/hoodbhoy-imran-islamisation-pakistan/d/126806 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism