Mother Tongue, Education and Pakistan
Dr. Zahoor Ahmed Awan wrote a column in daily Aaj on 17 October 2010 in which he discussed the bill passed in the provincial assembly of KPK, the assembly wants to teach the students’ science subject in Pashto.
I am also a teacher but I don’t know the spelling of Pashto how can I teach my students in Pashto. I am also worried about my future as well as other of my colleagues who don’t know how to say salaam in Pashto .If government arranges some courses for the teachers for Pashto I think I will the first to refuse to attend these types of courses because I have no background. I prefer to use English which is very weak but I can do better in it.
As I am teacher my duty is to brief my students on different topics I feel it convenient to describe any thing in Urdu and I can do it in many ways. I can give many alternative words both in Urdu and also in English .Also I can tell my students the origin of the word and their uses in different situations but I can not do this in Pashto I think its like Chinese to me to learn I have some know how in Pashto but it is limited to just hello hi
This is very crucial time for government because of floods and other calamities and the government is starting another door of tribulations for it self. It is not an easy thing to do they may have planned every thing but it requires a lot of money .They have to write new books, print them ,then supply, train the teacher’s for it and lot of other thing to .
Teacher’s are not able to complete the courses in time which they are teaching for years what will happen if the course changes you can imagine. At least for three year every one will be disturb and after that the will be used to it.
The students uses the copies .books and notes prepared by the old students what will they do then when they have new books in the language which they have never learnt. I know many students who can speak very perfect Pashto but they can not read any word of it what will they do they have to learn another language .English will be in English, Urdu will be in Urdu, Pashto and in most of the Rural area school the students learn Arabic because all the Middle and High schools there must have an Arabic teacher (courtesy previous government who fill all the AT posts)
Every one in Pakistan seems to scoring points what ever the situation. They don’t even care the lives of the people. They just want to be in news doing photo session or something other. The flood victim’s continuously needs help but the government seems to be slow down as well as public.
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