Investment in Education
Monday, July 6, 2009
According to Dawn, Pakistan, Monday, 06 Jul, 2009
IN the times we live in, human capital has emerged as the most significant and decisive factor in a country’s progress. One can safely say that most developed countries owe their rise to their educated and skilled manpower.
Interestingly, countries replete with natural resources and other assets are lagging behind primarily because of a dearth of trained human capital. Pakistan has an inherent advantage as it has a larger younger population whose strengths and skills can be tapped for national development in order to be turned into real human capital.
It's an open secret that investment in education is the best investment. However, we don't find allocation of due resources and efforts in our country. The reason is very simple. Education is a long term investment. Investments made by one government can not be reaped by it. So, we find that a lot of lip service is given to education but few practical steps are taken. Our politicians, rulers and leaders are all interested in short term gains, mostly, for their own selves, and the goals which they try to achieve for the masses are all oriented towards political benefits of being elected next time. It's the private sector in Pakistan which has to take the lead to improve the education statistics. The least our government can do it is to facilitate and encourage the private sector to come forward to spread education in our country in quantity and quality.
Labels: Education, Education Reforms
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