ILLITERACY

And Say My Lord

increase my knowledge
Today, Pakistan is layered with the numerous issues that
threaten to tear the very fabric of its society.
There is a long list of problems that are deeply entrenched in
this country since the inception, but the most grave among
them is illiteracy. It is so pervasive and disastrous that it
provides a breeding ground for other thousands of problems.

In fact, it is a hydra-headed menace that has besieged that

society of Pakistan from every corner. Illiteracy has proved to be
the base of all other social, political and economic collapses.
As Socrates says, Knowledge is virtue and all the vice is
ignorance.
It is a worrying situation that since decades all successive
governments have turned a blind eye to this problem. As a
result, today more than 40% of population is uneducated and
the educated 58% even included those who only know how to
write their names. Moreover, the quality of an education is
another serious problem when the education system is divided
in to different classes depending on peoples social and
financial background.
This nation is locked in a self-serving cycle of people of illiteracy
where poor education of one generation ensures the worse
batch of teachers for the next.

The flawed attitude of successive governments as well as of

whole nation to educate their people has led this country to
moral decline and social evils. Therefore, this is high time to
understand the importance of education that would help to clear
the way for welfare, development and prosperity of collective
struggle of society coupled with state institutions to launch an
emergency campaign against this disease and curse that has
become rampant affecting every corner of this country.