Problems faced by Students in Pakistan
In Pakistan
the problems being faced by students are as numerous as that being
faced by teachers if not more. These mainly includes the following:
Lack of guidance
Our student is the most unguided student in the world. Neither the
parent due to their ignorance nor the teachers due to lack of
professionalism are able to guide them. Lack of guidance is very serious
problem which student face in our country; in Pakistan
education maximum parents are uneducated so they can’t guide their
children. Due to which they cant chose proper subject and proper filed
as well as they cant get good marks because no can help them in home
work. While on other side those students who have proper guidance they
get good marks.
Poverty and Financial problem
Pakistan
is an underdeveloped nation, majority of our people are living on the
poverty line who can barely make their both ends meet. They cannot
afford even the negligible fees being charged in the government
institutions, let alone the books and uniforms for which they are to pay
from their own pockets. Majority of our young ones are child labor,
they indulge in child labor not only to feed them selves but to support
their families too.
Lack of Trained teachers
There are no trained teachers in our education system. The purpose of
early/primary education is to induce in to the students an interest of
education but children are exposed to untrained teachers in their early
stage of education they lose interest in education and results in early
dropouts.
Lack of proper learning aids and Laboratories
Our schools are devoid of proper laboratories and learning aids. Due to
this students are bombarded with theoretical concepts, which in the
absence of the required audiovisual learning aids and laboratories
confuses the students. As a result of this the students lose their
interest in education after which either they drop out or rely on
practices like cheating, bribing teachers etc.
Fear complex
To camouflage their inability teachers grow a fence of fear
around them selves. They resort to indiscriminate punishments results some
of the students run away from schools and the rest become docile with no
interest in education but to spend time aimlessly.
Psychological problems
Students due to high expectations of their families and
absence of guidance for both the parents and students experience a lot of
psychological stress, which has a retarding effect on their growth.
Transfer of teachers
Frequent transfer of teachers leaves no room for the
development of mutual understanding and respect for each other. The moment they
start to understand each other, the teacher is transferred. Once this process
is repeated a few times with a student, the student closes himself to teachers
in future
Socio-economic condition
Due to bad socio-economic conditions of majority of our
students they are not very attentive to what is being imparted to them and
neither can they practice it at homes.
Biased and traditional measures for evaluation of pupil
Students are evaluated in our institutions not on the basis
of their abilities but on the basis of their class. This disheartens students
who have weak financial/social backgrounds. Also our examination system
evaluates students not on the basis of their cognitive abilities but is more of
a rote memory test. All this is simply due to the fact that modern evaluation
techniques are not applied.
Absence of appropriate textbooks
Students are subjected to inappropriate textbooks, which in
the absence of appropriate reference books makes the situation worst. School
libraries are filled with irrelevant books majority of which being story books,
which too are kept under lock & key out of the reach of students.
Stress
Students are physically stressed due to the fact that they
start early in the morning and walk long distances to schools, on reaching
schools they are subjected to physical punishments and when they return they
are given substantial amount of homework for which they have no guidance. I
addition to this they are short of time as they have to take care of different
home related chores such as feeding cattle, bringing fodder etc
Loneliness
Due to mental stress and too much work students have no time
to develop social relations and the feeling of loneliness overtakes them. This
leads to depression and mental sickness, which is taken by society as being
under the influence of spirits. To cure this they are taken to different shrines
which majority of times results into partial mental disability.
Communication problem
Their exists a lot of communication gaps between students,
teachers and parents. Due to this gap neither the teachers nor the parents come
to understand the students, resultantly they enforce upon them their wishes.
This enforcement develops a rebellious or a docile nature in the students,
which retard the positive abilities.
Medium of instruction
Our students are subjected to very frequent changes in the
medium of instruction. In the process the best they can do is to learn to read
one of the languages. Majority is unable to understand what is written in the
text. They memorize the text and recopy it in examination, which kills the
basic aim of education.
Classroom environment
The class rooms are over-crowded due to which the students
are unable to take personal attention of the teacher resultantly they are
unable to communicate to the teacher their problems, resultantly their problems
never get resolved.
Lack of facilities for Co-circular activities
Their exists no facilities for co-curricular activities of
the students. Very few schools have playing grounds, which due to wrong planning
of the school management are very overcrowded in school breaks (since the whole
school is given a break at the same time) provide no space for any kind of
sport. Also there are no provisions for sport goods due to which children run
aimlessly in school breaks. Which inculcates in them an aimless
attitude/behavior?
Drug addiction
Due to non-serious attitude of the teachers and school
management students at a very early age get exposed to menaces like smoking and
use of snuff, which according to psychologists are a gateway to more serious
additions such as hash and heroin. It has also been observed that it is in fact
the teachers and parents of the students who use these things openly in front
of students and hence work as a role models for students on their way to
getting into the habit of smoking and use of snuff.
