Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday he was “ashamed and saddened” Attack of a woman Tiktoker Earlier this month, hundreds of men near Minar-e-Pakistan cited lack of proper upbringing as “a huge cause of the destruction we are seeing in society”.
In his first public remarks since the August 14 incident, which sparked outrage across the country, the premier said incidents of harassment and the sex crimes that are taking place now are “not part of our culture or religion”.
He made this remark while addressing the Punjab Education Conference 2021 in Lahore.
“When I was growing up, no one imagined that things like this would happen [in Pakistan]. I’ve been all over the world; The respect I saw for women growing up existed in Muslim countries, but not in the West. A big reason for the destruction we are seeing is because our children are not being brought up properly.”
The Prime Minister highlighted the need to properly train children and teach them the biography of Seerat-un-Nabi – the Holy Prophet (PBUH) – as he said that due to mobile phones, children have been exposed to things earlier in human history. is far more.
“It is very necessary to train our children and there is only one way to do this – make them aware of the life of the Prophet. [Muhammad]He said, “Children should be taught the qualities that set the Prophet apart, including his honesty and righteousness.
Criticism of the English Medium System
At the start of his speech, Prime Minister Imran praised the Punjab government for “doing what no other province is doing”. Describing the work of the provincial government in the field of education as “very important”, he said that education has not been a priority of the previous governments.
He strongly criticized the English-medium education system, saying it was inherited from the British, who built such schools “to create a class in India that is Indian in colour, but of our (British) kind of thinks, our attitudes and through which we can rule such a large continent”.
Talking about his own experience, he recalled that when he graduated from Aitchison College and went to England for further studies, he felt “I was made an English public school boy , not Pakistani. I was taken away from my culture and my religion. Through that educational system.”
The premier said that after independence from the British, Pakistan should have focused its attention on improving the education system and developing a system to “build a nation”.
Instead, three separate education systems were formed: madrassas, Urdu-medium schools and, for a select section, English-medium schools, he said.
“English Medium” [system] Developed in such a way that less emphasis was placed on education and more on creation desi vilayati (local foreign). The attitudes and mental slavery of other cultures were absorbed.”
The English medium system was not changed because politicians believed that their children would be “privileged and attained status in society”. As a result, there was an increase in English-medium schools, he said.
single national curriculum
“Our mistake was that we did not develop a government education system. The private school system made us slaves to another culture,” he said. single national curriculum A “huge change”.
He predicted that a time would come when people would realize that a single national curriculum was a “turning point”.
Analysis: disintegrating a single national curriculum
The Prime Minister also criticized the use of English in the ceremonies, saying: “Because of the two ambassadors an entire ceremony is conducted in English and it is being televised which the common man is watching. How much does it matter to us? It’s a great insult to those who don’t know English.”
Noting that 80 percent of the country’s population does not understand English, he questioned: “What are you telling them, that you are some low nation?”
He said the self-esteem of the people was being “lowered” by organizing events in English instead of Urdu.
English should not be a “status symbol”, the premier insisted.
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