Daily Times

Sir: My dear students, remember these words of your coach and teacher. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Only the educated are free. An educational system is not worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but does not teach them how to make a life. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? We need to re-educate ourselves, our parents and elders. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to make something extraordinary happen. We face various strategic challenges that we need to address in Pakistan and we have to complete this task within 10 years.

These challenges include establishing a united Pakistani nation, creating a psychologically liberated, secure and developed society, fostering and developing a mature democratic society, establishing a fully moral and ethical society, ensuring an economically just society, in which there is a fair and equitable distribution of the wealth of the nation, establishing a prosperous society with an economy that is fully competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch. To achieve our goal I propose the three R’s formula: Re-educate, Reform and Revive. Re-educate our families, our parents, our community and our whole country. Through re-education we will see social and judicial reforms that will eventually revive our nation and our economy and our destiny.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SAAD ASAD

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