Adil Najam
This intriguing picture from Islamabad advertises a “Child Friendly School”?
Leaves one wondering about exactly what a “child friendly school” is? Maybe our readers can tell us what that would mean in Pakistan.
By implication, it suggests that other schools are not “child friendly.” That may well be so. After all, we have written before about schools that had 25 teachers and only 52 students!
In fairness, this seems to be the name of the school itself. In which case this may be a case of Pinglish. If that is so, one would have to wonder whether the school is “education friendly,” irrespective of whether it is “child friendly” or not.
Explore the Universe is the way to PROGRESS, Holy Quraan.
Ours rather the whole World surveillance is the Education/Taleem of Quraan Majeed believe it or not.
I am not agreed with the current Education system and its Theme. There are more than 5 systems of Education are established in our beloved country Pakistan, rather I should say more than five those are just producing Clerks/educated Labours to run the businesses of the Elite class. Now follow is the small list of the Education system available, such as:-
A. English Medium Class:
i. Paying more than 100,000 Rs., per month
(forget about those who studies abroad to rule us and Pakistan)
ii. Paying around 50,000 Rs., per month, Aitcheson sort of.
iii. Beacon, City and Grammar sort of schools.
iv. Army Public Schools or associated schools to it.
v. So called English medium 50 Rs., to 15000 Rs., per month.
B. i. English + Islamic syllabus
Now these are more than 109 types as per Muslak. Every
muslak has many divisions and so here you will find variety
of English Islamic Schools.
ii. Madrassas System
a. Again many types of Madrassas as per maslaks, around
72 types.
iii. Only Hifz-e-Quraan Majeed
iv. Haifz-e-Quraan Majeed and Tafseer again as per maslkas
many types, to control the Masajid of their concerned
masaks.
v. The other with Islamic syllabus plus Fighting Trainings.
(places not known to Public and Government)
C. Government Schools
i. English Medium
ii. Urdu Medium
iii. With Buildings
iv. Without Buildings
D. At Home Schools
i. Mostly one room schools by the females at her own
ii. Run by males at his own in Evening.
E. Special Children Education
F. Technical Education System
G. Ghost Schools too, only to digest FUNDs.
H. The system those are run by the Mafia, Culprits, Notorious,
Obnoxious Community to Trained the Children for their
purposes such as Drug dealers, Smugglers, Pocket picker,
Thieves bradry, Beggar Mafia, Heera Mundi style Guest
houses, koutha system and list goes on.
So now you can well imagine in such variety of Education systems how we can develop a UNITED, humble, motivated and positive thinking NATION.
We have to have go through one system of Education which is the only way and that one is by the grace of Allah, the system is available and introduced to us more than 14 centuries before.
We have to follow the only system of Quraan Majeed, we have to establish it in each and every department, field and institutions in the light of Holy Book, the Quraan.
For this we have to go through the exact meanings, mafhoom, theme of Quraan. It should be established in our every school/madrassa
— Child Friendly School simply means where children can have
their ‘exams’ or ‘tests’ taken in a ”friendly” atmosphere– period !!!
Naseer
a school where shararti logon kay liay saza ka maqool intizam nahin hai?
“Education friendly”? Well, yes the buzzword for this is child centred teaching, which means teaching methodology which focusses on children’s needs,, aptitude and capabilities, it is an approach said to be in contrast to cramming, it is another jargon commonly found in Pakistan’s education sector.
The concept of child friendly schools stems from the fact that most of the government sector schools happen to be least child friendly due to their dreadful environment, teachers’ unfriendly attitude and corporal punishment. I think in Pakistan it was Unicef and other NGOs in the education sector that promoted the notion of child friendly schools. Over the last decade or so it has became one of the buzzwords of education sector, hard to say if the sarkari schools have become child friendly or not. Corporal punishment trend in most of the sarkari schools in Punjab is decreasing. Someone in this picture is certainly trying to cash in on the trend.