Islamic Republic of Pakistan is
at the 136th in ranking of literate population according to the UNESCO’s survey.
Pakistan spends just 1.5 to 2 percent of the total GDP to education. Comparing
with other countries Pakistan doesn’t spend the half of the GDP. Other countries
spend 6 to 7 percent of their GDP to the education and Malaysia spends 36 % of
her GDP to education. 58% is the literacy rate of Pakistan. There are some key
issues with the educational system of Pakistan. The main factor in educational
institutions for the failure of the students is our Multilanguage culture. There
are round about 70 cultures and languages spoken in Pakistan including Urdu,
Punjabi, Sindhi, Blochi, Pashto, Gilgiti, Kashmiri and Hindko etc. Urdu is most
common, well known and playing lingua franca role. English is emerging language
and now it has become official language. Our education system is borrowed from
modern societies like U.S.A and from Europe, through borrowing that system
English language has become compulsory for our society and language is the main
pillar in culture for its transmission and communications. For adopting the
educational system of Europe we have adopted their dressing styles, speaking
styles, co-education system, values, economic system and some of their belief.
At present two languages are being promoted for educating pupils. In elite
schools the education provided to the pupils in English and in Govt. school Urdu
is used to teach. In this way there become two groups in society English and
Urdu medium, actually these are not the groups in society that shows the
difference between haves and have not. Haves can pay more fee to the elite class
schools and have not can’t pay fee so they send their children to Govt. schools
and Madrasah’s. Where they get Urdu education or get the religious education, in
professional life this education become useless to them. In job competition they
can’t compete their English fellows and now days multinational organizations
hires most competent and well English spoken men for jobs. Pakistan is
multicultural country where people belongs to different back grounds they even
don’t speak Urdu as well. The people gets the education from English medium
schools hold different perspectives than people gets education from Madrasah’s
and from Urdu medium schools. Due to conflict in Christian and Islamic
Movements, mostly people don’t like western cultures and their values, they even
hate English language. From adopting the western system of education people have
become ethnocentric. They are not yet ready to leave inheritance culture.