Balochistan govt focusing on education, claims spokesman
Shahwani says education is a basic right and guarantees society’s development
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QUETTA:
Balochistan Government Spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani has said that the provincial government has allocated the highest amount in the budget for education and welfare of schools.
“Jam Kamal Khan is focused on providing education”, Liaquat Shahwani said during a ceremony to give out the award for best teacher performance at the Government Girls High School on Mission Road.
He commended the Mahnoor Education Welfare Foundation for organising an event to encourage teachers. “A human being’s first educational institution is always the home. A child raised by a virtuous woman grows up to be a good person and a good Muslim”, he said.
He further said that a child mirrored its mother, obtaining the qualities of self-respect, loyalty and honour from her. Ignorance, he said, was not only abolished by education but also by nurture. He termed education one of the basic needs of every human being, whether rich or poor, male or female.
“It is the basic right of a human being that no one can take away and constitutes the difference between humans and animals”, he said, adding that education guaranteed the development of a nation or society.
He emphasised, however, that studying meant not just obtaining a school, college or university certificate or degree but also learning about culture and civilisation so that people could take care of their social traditions and society.
Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) senior leader Raheem Agha also spoke at the event, saying that education was the embodiment of the human character.
He stressed teachers’ critical role in the formation of human character and underlined that, if encouraged, they would work diligently for the development of education in the province.
Later, institution chairman Syed Tayyab Shah, Malik Wali Wardak and others also addressed the gathering.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2019.
Balochistan Government Spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani has said that the provincial government has allocated the highest amount in the budget for education and welfare of schools.
“Jam Kamal Khan is focused on providing education”, Liaquat Shahwani said during a ceremony to give out the award for best teacher performance at the Government Girls High School on Mission Road.
He commended the Mahnoor Education Welfare Foundation for organising an event to encourage teachers. “A human being’s first educational institution is always the home. A child raised by a virtuous woman grows up to be a good person and a good Muslim”, he said.
He further said that a child mirrored its mother, obtaining the qualities of self-respect, loyalty and honour from her. Ignorance, he said, was not only abolished by education but also by nurture. He termed education one of the basic needs of every human being, whether rich or poor, male or female.
“It is the basic right of a human being that no one can take away and constitutes the difference between humans and animals”, he said, adding that education guaranteed the development of a nation or society.
He emphasised, however, that studying meant not just obtaining a school, college or university certificate or degree but also learning about culture and civilisation so that people could take care of their social traditions and society.
Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) senior leader Raheem Agha also spoke at the event, saying that education was the embodiment of the human character.
He stressed teachers’ critical role in the formation of human character and underlined that, if encouraged, they would work diligently for the development of education in the province.
Later, institution chairman Syed Tayyab Shah, Malik Wali Wardak and others also addressed the gathering.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2019.