In a State of Flux- Education in Pakistan

In a State of Flux- Education in Pakistan In the Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916) Bertrand Russell writes – almost all education has a political move: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social in the competition with other groups. It is this motive in the main which determines the subject taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the growth of mind and spirit”. A cautious analysis of our education system reveals the fact that the above mentioned statement presents a critique of the governments educational plans and policies.