Education

Economists say that for the development of a country like us, we have to improve our transport sector and education sector first, apart from curbing corruption. I want to say something about the education sector as we are watching sheer disregard for this sector and our policy-makers are doing almost nothing in this regard. I think that they need some help from a bachelor level student like me.

We have three types of educational system in our country i.e., Madrassah education, Bengali medium schools and English medium ones. A proper education policy is absent in all these systems. Madrassah education is creating religious fanatics, secondary school board is virtually ineffective in the distant regions of this country and English medium schooling is promoting the money culture. To my mind, it is now high time to learn from history. The policymakers should ponder over what Kemal Ataturk did in Turkish educational reform and bring forth a new educational policy.

Private tuition is not unlawful but the recent trend is unethical. To reduce the bad effect of private tuition, in-school education should be strengthened and teachers should be paid due remuneration. The difference between different education systems should be reduced.

I think that the matters discussed above will find a place in our political leaders' musings.