Aizaz Khan Hasanzai
It will be true to the maximum that education is essential for every human being regardless of their gender. Education makes us rational and teaches us to differentiate between good and evil. The importance of education can be deduced from one of the sayings of our beloved Prophet Muhammad PBUH “seeking knowledge is duty upon every Muslim…”(Sunan ibn Majah 224). According to the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training the literacy rate in Pakistan is 62.3% which doesn’t mean that we are practicing Muslims and are following the instructions of our beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW, rather it portrays our mentality of getting jobs after completing our education. This mentality has effected us so badly that we choose only those fields of education which have more scope in the market, no matter if we have no interest in studying those subjects. In our society parents wants their child to join disciplines of their choice because they want their child to get handsome job the day he completed his degree. Students are forced to join fields which have good scope in future so that they don’t remain jobless. This stupid mentality of getting education for the purpose of getting job has lowered our skills and abilities of achieving something huge. We have more teachers but less scholars. we have doctors but never triumphto have new invention in the field of medical. We have engineers but still we seek others help when it comes to technology and this is all the result of our mentality which compel us to get education for the purpose of getting job. I have seen students quitting education with the reason to have their own small business. Can’t we have some educated businessmen?Why not.To make this possible we have todevelop the idea that education is not merely for job purposebut creates scholars then our society would definitely be full of educated businessmen and people, more rational and knowledgeable. Just imagine the behaviour of a person who is educated and runs a bookshop, his behaviour toward his customers would be like the behaviour of a gardener toward flowers. Similarly the behaviour of a pharmacist who display and serves in a drugstore would be like the behaviour of a mother for his ill child. This is now high time to replace our obsolete mindset with new and innovated ideas in order to mend our society similar to advanced countries. We have to let our younger generation to get knowledge and choose the fields they are more interested in. Also the parents should not expect early jobs from them, so that they get proper time to get polished and contribute in this society in more positive way.
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