Modernism In Pakistan Essay

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Since its birth Pakistan has been attached Capitalism in almost all aspects. From the education point of view it has adopted the capitalist education policy. Pakistan has adopted this from the British Colonial regime. It has adopted the concept of modernity in various institutions like cosmopolitan nationalism, free market, and democratic state etc. This all is the influence of the British which has caused it to be a capitalist state and it has ignored its own traditions, values and customs, which were supposed to be its basis.
From the education point of view, today, from the primary level to the university level, it is all influenced by the concept of modernity. This is only deteriorating the new generation because by this type of education system the youngsters are not being educated (mainly) but they are being materialist at the first place.
As far as the pure Pakistani traditions are concerned, it teaches the youngsters to be respectful, it teaches them respect, honor, dignity, family values, religious values and a lot more. But by acquiring this type of modern education the new generation is heading towards a disastrous edge, from which they have no way back. They are learning how to be cruel, how to be selfish and how to make their own profit by not bothering about others. This is totally in contradiction with the religious aspect and with the ethical essence. Mainly this has replaced ethnocentric nationalism with cosmopolitan nationalism, which is really a big issue to worry about.
The capitalists in Pakistan are working upon the only task of inflicting the so called modern education system in Pakistan, in order to get some robotic capitalist graduates outcome.
Apart from this the education system is based on unequal li...

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... which means that it is extremely difficult to finance the education of one’s child.
To make it possible for every student to acquire higher education, steps need to be taken to make it more affordable. Education is a universal right. It should not be made the domain of a privileged few.
Hamza Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2012.

Capitalism:
Sadly Pakistan is the country where capitalism exists and government has no control over it. The main reason of capitalism in Pakistan is that circulation of money and resources that are used to produce products are in some specific hands and this existence of inequality in case of distribution of wealth are the major reasons of this system in Pakistan.
This capitalism is increasing more when the modern institutions are making out capitalist minded youngsters.
Article by Qasim Mumtaz.
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