Pakistan's schooling model is producing confident fools. Yes! You heard that right. Every year, millions of Pakistani children walk into classrooms and spend twelve years of their lives being taught how to do almost everything except live. Declared successful, they smile brightly for the cameras, host lavish feasts to celebrate, and pose proudly in matching graduation gowns. And then…they go home and cannot change a light bulb, cannot cook a meal, cannot clean a floor - because to them, a broom feels like a betrayal of their degrees. Who invented this absurdity? And more to the point: why are we still marching our children into it?

To understand the scale of this absurdity, let's stop polishing this national delusion about what our curriculum actually demands of students. It demands that a child spend an entire week before every new school year carefully wrapping textbooks........

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