According to Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” To begin with this most famous quote, I believe that education cannot only be measured based on degrees, grades, or our academic excellence, but it helps us to think critically and solve our daily life problems through rational thinking and wise decisions. Although education provides us with a broad platform where we can learn, rethink, and re-establish the lost norms and manners that are quintessential for our survival in such a chaotic world. More significantly, in our country, the education system is not up to the mark. I am not revealing the loopholes of my country, but it is worth mentioning that our education system does not help us in the market where skills matter a lot.

The state of schooling in Pakistan

Schooling is the basic education that not only helps students to make their foundations strong but also helps them to excel more remarkably in the future. Here I will uncover my story from when I was a child of seven years. The bundle of books, with an empty mind and dreamy eyes to study in the city, was palpable through my personality. The teaching methodology of teachers was also not commendable because they did not have a high qualification.

I remember one of my past years when I was practicing English tenses and I had no one at my home to whom I asked questions. The next day, I asked a plethora of questions to my teacher, but she was unable to answer them. This is tantamount to saying that I was only cramming English language. My reason for narrating my story is not to criticize my teacher but to highlight that the education of teachers is more important than students in a school or any institution. Writing with a depressed soul, I believe that thousands of people do not value the profession of teaching. I can firmly say that such a mentality has extreme ramifications. If a teacher is not highly educated or a subject specialist, students cannot excel in the modern world.

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