THERE is an urgent need for a smart syllabus to improve the decaying standard of education in the country. Bill Gates in his book The Road Ahead terms education the best investment.

The pace of progress of the world has accelerated rapidly owing to the quality education. In the present Information Age it is essential that people must be knowledgeable and must have the expertise to use information appliances and applications.

Allama Iqbal admires the youths that exert to hook the stars in the sky. This incredible task can be done by educated and intellectual minds only. The West perceived this situation quite early, soon overhauled its education system and thus was able to conquer even the space.

On our 70th Independence Day we will have to make promises and resolve that every Pakistani will try his utmost to promote education and get knowledge of the latest information technology.

The state has to gird up its loin to meet education challenges that have put the country at the back burner in every field of progress and prosperity. The education system needs drastic innovations in the national curriculum.

After secondary education, the syllabus of higher classes will need modern education while laboratories are present for assimilation of knowledge. The state will have to revamp its planning compartment and the best available educationists be kept there.

M.S. Ansari

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2017