Table of Contents
1)- Education and its types
- Formal education
- informal education
- non-formal education
2)- Three tier system of education
- Primary level education
- College level education
- University education
3)- What is meant by national failure?
A)- A national failure is when a state;
- unable to provide fundamental rights and opoortunities
- loses its legitimacy
- features declination in living standards
- somehow losts its control
4)- How education system assumes some of the responsibilities of our national failure?
A)- Our education system is full of flaws and faultines that make it responsible for our national failure. Therefore, problems in the education system makes us a failed nation at so many fronts. Some of these are;
- Produces scarcity of skilled labour
- Literally compromises the technological advancements
- Mismanages the human resources
- Hinders mental growth of masses
- Fails to incorporate elements of morality
- Brings down the political efficacy of the nation
- Furthers the class divide and social stratification
- Somehow patronizes the religious polarisation
- Increases frustration among the educated youth
- Disharmonizes the national unity
- Subsides the economic equality
- Fails to promote healthcare awareness
- Fails to ensure gender equity
- Produces an army of jobseekers
- Unable to confront the modern day challenges
5)- Various challenges confronting to the education system
- Lack of uniformity
- Direction-less education
- Poor meritocracy
- Outdated syllabus
- High Drop-outs
- Ineffective education policies
- Missing necessary facilities
- Overcharging by private-sector institutions
- Meager strength of faculties
6)- Recommendations for improving the education so as to ensure national prosperity
A)- There is a need to reorient the education system so that it can;
- Promotes the co-existence
- Respects the diversity of castes and religions
- Boosts the critical thinking in students
- Produces entrepreneurs instead of job-seekers
- Imparts political vigour in the masses
- Advocates gender equality in all fields of life
- Reinvigorates economic growth
