Pakistani and Education

[SaeedinPakistan]

Re: Pakistani and Education

@ekumunng

Education has less preference in our society and culture (if we have any). Even look at annual budget of the govt. More money is spent on roads and bridges than education and health. Vast majority of the girls’ parents look at the earnings of their potential ‘damaad’ than his qualifications.

Girls are more educated because everyone knows (including them) that they will sit home after marriage, so to spend time until their marriage, allowing them to go to college, university is a good practice. For boys to get into business, job or any other venture, a minimum level of education is required and after that ‘right connections’ are needed not a university degree. At least this is the case in Pakistan.

Roads and bridges are equally important for economic growth. If you wanna talk about messed up priorities, take a look at the military’s budget. Pakistan spends more on it’s Army than anything else.

And the US is not any better. Expenditures on health, education and welfare programs are criticized religiously, but nobody talks about the defense expenditures. Why the f do we have troops in Germany, Japan and South Korea. Are they paying us any money for the service we’re providing them. Not enough to balance our expenditures. So much money is dumped in research geared at developing new weapons. Do we really need all that, we’re already years ahead of everybody else in the world when it comes to killing people.

Humans are a stupid race indeed.