An adroit solution is to convert all these coaching centres into schools so that students get bonafide education
KARACHI: There is an abundance of coaching centres in Pakistan. However, education needs teaching, not coaching. The system of our education is being ruined by these coaching centres as students have come to favour studying through them, instead of studying in their respective schools or colleges. An adroit solution to fixing the problem is to convert all these operational coaching centres into schools so that students get bonafide education. The most prominent reason to eliminate the culture of attending coaching centres is that these centres are tuning the minds of the students to assume that the only way to score higher in tests and exams is to go over ‘guess’ papers. This mindset allows them to de-stress and the power to think critically about a question or to innovate to arrive at a sound answer is weakened.
One of the first and major solutions to finishing off the tuition culture is to make sure that college teachers are sincere to their work responsibilities — to teach effectively in colleges and not just in their profiteering businesses of coaching centres. Our colleges are not for phantom students and teachers; they are institutions to educate students who will become the future pride of Pakistan. Colleges need to be occupied with students and teachers as that would far better serve the country than those coaching centres that coach based on the illusion that academic and future success rests only on effective test taking.
Muhammad Uzair Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2015.
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