The students as well as parents are under pressure and mentally disturbed due to burden of irrelevant books
Zarmeen Soomro
Education is a learning process but in our institutions the education has become a burden for students because of the heavy books and the irrelevant subjects. At the schools, the teachers teach eight main subjects from 1st to 8th standard but hardly 30% students can understand these subjects and the remaining 70% are not learning properly.
The students as well as parents are under pressure and are mentally disturbed due to burden of irrelevant books. Unfortunately, the policy makers and the school administrations do not realize that every child does not possess the same capability to understand things.
Due to such a defective education system, lots of students lose interest in their studies and even at the intermediate level, they are not able to speak and write a single paragraph.
If compared to language classes, the students learn a lot during the 6-month language course, but in our educational institutions, the students are unable to learn even after 16-years education system. Mostly, students fear to speak English at the schools and colleges, despite the fact that job requirement is to fluently speak English.
What are the reasons that we can’t learn proper English in our 16 years of education? It’s all about our institutions’ way of teaching. All of institutions depend on textbooks but never try to adopt practical ways of teaching English.
Our education system here needs drastic change. The authorities concerned should change their policies regarding the heavy and unnecessary courses from standard 1st and implement the modern methods of teaching.
We need to pay attention on education sector and introduce a positive change for the students and include every subject’s practical in every standard. The government should undertake survey and research on children and students mental health and then frame the policies, rules and regulations of course and introduce them as per the age of children.
Another important thing is that our institution should focus on limit of students in every class, as a teacher can never focus on all of students in overcrowded class.
Through these changes every children can understand each subject easily and would never get mentally disturbed.
Lastly, the education depends on skills, not language. Our institutions must focus on developing skills of the students.
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