Through learning man can identify himself and the purpose of his life and what life entails. Only an erudite person with constructive approach can help out in nation building and work for betterment of humanity. A well-informed evil genius yobbo is more perilous for a society than an unqualified one. Although, literacy rate is steadily increasing all over the world but moral baggage is perpetually gimping at the same pace while extremism is rapidly escalating. Man is becoming more callous with each passing day. Even real brothers have become bloodthirsty enemies due to materialism, individualism and egotism. These social evils are byproducts of our loopholed education system. They are acting as blight in our society to pile-up the underpinnings of integrity and humanity.
Paradoxically, enterprising man has conquered towering mountains and glistening peaks, explored Antarctica, reached at Mariana Trench that is the deepest part of the ocean, made jogging headway in information and space technology, cured deadly diseases and overcame scarcity of foodstuff but he has scruffily not cut the mustard to recognize rationale of his creation and to travel long chalk journey of his internal world. He is marching blindfolded in dungeon of his inner darkness that entangles him throughout his life without any gleam of anticipation. The eminent poet of the East Allama Muhammad Iqbal rightly said:
“Dhondane wala sitaron ki guzar gahon ka Apne afkar ki dunia mein safar kar na saka; Jis ne sooraj ki shoaon ko girftar kia Zindgi ki shabe tarek seher kar na saka.”
(The seeker of tracks of stars failed to travel in the world of his thoughts; one who imprisoned beams of the sun flopped to enlighten dark night of his life.)
The fundamental reason for self-centeredness and apathy among knowledgeable people is due to basic flaws in our West-inspired schooling system. The western learning methods edify ways of earning money to glut tummies and to live a comfortable life but it has shoddily botched to indoctrinate compassion, tolerance, ethical principles and moral paraphernalia. Thus morality stressed and materially engrossed western conditioning has driven a wedge between physical and spiritual aspect of man. Morality instilling and character building traits in the western learning process are as scarce as water on the blazing sun.
Due to this civility scant education structure scale of suicide is more in well-read ones than uneducated, knowledgeable are extra intolerant than ignorant, familiar are supplementary dim-witted than unfamiliar and common wisdom dominates among untaught dwellers of countryside than those of educated residents of posh areas. Majority of western educated pseudosophistication loaded people have low respect for their parents, relatives and human beings. They feel gratification in illusory glittering life of pomp, show and vanity. The phony urbane and elite class is tenaciously running down ethical principles because they don't consider their prerequisite. Therefore, Shakespeare fittingly said about such smashed-up and dead duck education system that has reduced man to animal level, “Ignorance is bliss!”
Mushrooming of materially obsessed and morally stressed private educational institutions in various countries of the world is also a basic reason for grinding down rectitude from modern-day society. Private learning academies hire renowned teachers and cash their names. The well-fixed cheapskate owners of these institutions are least interested about career and character building of pupils. Their solitary aim is to dredge up utmost turnover by emptying pockets of affording parents on a regular basis. Preponderance of private instructive institutions are champions of co-education because they are owned by cash cows that proudly hailed themselves as cerebral ascriptus glebae of the depraved western civilization. In their spectacular campuses the students get opportunities to rummage around friends of opposite gender instead of improving their attitude and conduct. Due to lack of any check and balance on these burgeoning institutions they teach what they like without any sense of liability that has basket cased the standard of education.
The role of bluenose teachers is gradually thinning in our society. Tutors in the developed countries enjoy outstanding social status and towering esteem because these states deem these men of brain as social reformers. Ironically, in Pakistan majority of educators join teaching line of work when they fail to qualify competitive examinations. These rejected and perturbed instructors who are compelled to join coaching profession by circumstance rather than choice cannot ensure apposite sprucing up of the future generations by imparting proper education with a sense of commitment. Their failures in life embroil them in a vicious cycle of frustration. Therefore, due to lack of interest in teaching vocation they remain indifferent towards preparing their pupils to confront impending challenges.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet accurately said in his “Epistles to Several Persons”,
“Tis Education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
