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.
With all due respect, I am little off with us pulling banners and posters from the wherever areas to show our embarassing skills in English. Its one thing if its really funny but at times its sounds more like its put up just to ridicule those “poor english” people of paksitan, and believe me, there are lot of such people. I am just not sure what the point is..I am sure this poster is not as deep as we are trying to dig into it. Its a simple poster for very simple people who probably want schools to be nicer to children. Should they have come up with better name and make Child Friendly or whatever as their motto or something. Yes. But what does it matter.. Anyway, dont mean to stir any offense, just some thoughts.
There is, by general consensus, a definition of Child Friendly Schools. Take a look at Of course, for some of us, even all that is not enuff. But that’s another debate.
While I have collaborated with Roger Schank in a couple of projects, I am also a strong supporter of the Papert way. That may, at first, seem like a contradiction but the fact is that it is the current one-size-fits-all education system that is one part of the many things wrong with ‘school’. So, while the Schank solution of a story-based curriculum and the elearning+hands_on hybrid works well ‘within’ conventional systems, the Papert curriculum-less solution works successfully outside of it (such as in his Bangkok project).
For parents about to ‘inspect’ schools in order to choose one for their child, as long as the walled classroom exists, a good place to start is to see what constitutes a good classroom and evaluate the schools accordingly. Kohn shares his view of this at
It is a pity that we spend about 2 to 3 % of the national GDP on education and health. What else do we expect after such a paltry investment?
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