A certain Nelson Mandela once noted: "Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world."

The enduring importance of this quote certainly isn't lost on our editors who cited the great South African in Dawn's editorial on Pakistan's broken education system and reminded the country's political parties that "only parties with a vision can understand the truth of his words."

It also had some advice for those aspiring to be in power:

"A new government should focus on policy implementation improving learning scores, enrolment and retention in a province where 51pc of girls remain out of school despite budgets higher than the UN recommended 20pc baseline."

Read the rest of it here.

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