CEP Zohaib Tahir 2018
Community Engagement Program 2014- 2015
Registration Form
Name: Zohaib Tahir
Year: Freshmen
Telephone Number: +974 33202018
Email: zt65@georgetown.edu
Short Question: (500 words)
What is your interest in Education and Development?
As far as I can recall, from an early age, I’ve been told that education is they “key to success”. Phrases like, “work hard, play hard”, “no pain, no gain”, have been revolving around my mind that motivated, or even manipulated, me to obtain education. By striving to provide every individual in a society an equal opportunity to gain education, we are giving them an equal opportunity to succeed in life. But the path of success is longer that straightforward in today’s world.
For me education today has lost its true meaning. The so-called “Age of knowledge” has been lost and in today’s world the conception of education has become more mechanical, conditioned and unionized. The basis to identify and rank people in terms of intelligence and success are now their SAT scores and their GPAs. True, that comes with hard work and effort, good grades and scores will get you a good job, but that should not be the sole determinant of meritocracy. Whether it was the Indian NCERT conspiracy or Zia Ul Haq manipulating the core curriculum of education for Pakistan in 1971, we have seen nations changing interfering in it to serve its own needs – manufacturing ideologically controlled citizens that conform to the values of the ruling class. But why is this a problem? This is because it helps in producing alienated recipients that are fitted into their pre-determined roles in the society (contrasted to actually choosing the role themselves), and in this way, their social status is ascribed to them, rather than being achieved by them.
Education in every sense is one of the foundational factors that lead to development. Education is important tool that is applied to the contemporary world to succeed as it mitigates the problems we face in everyday life.
Registration Form
Name: Zohaib Tahir
Year: Freshmen
Telephone Number: +974 33202018
Email: zt65@georgetown.edu
Short Question: (500 words)
What is your interest in Education and Development?
As far as I can recall, from an early age, I’ve been told that education is they “key to success”. Phrases like, “work hard, play hard”, “no pain, no gain”, have been revolving around my mind that motivated, or even manipulated, me to obtain education. By striving to provide every individual in a society an equal opportunity to gain education, we are giving them an equal opportunity to succeed in life. But the path of success is longer that straightforward in today’s world.
For me education today has lost its true meaning. The so-called “Age of knowledge” has been lost and in today’s world the conception of education has become more mechanical, conditioned and unionized. The basis to identify and rank people in terms of intelligence and success are now their SAT scores and their GPAs. True, that comes with hard work and effort, good grades and scores will get you a good job, but that should not be the sole determinant of meritocracy. Whether it was the Indian NCERT conspiracy or Zia Ul Haq manipulating the core curriculum of education for Pakistan in 1971, we have seen nations changing interfering in it to serve its own needs – manufacturing ideologically controlled citizens that conform to the values of the ruling class. But why is this a problem? This is because it helps in producing alienated recipients that are fitted into their pre-determined roles in the society (contrasted to actually choosing the role themselves), and in this way, their social status is ascribed to them, rather than being achieved by them.
Education in every sense is one of the foundational factors that lead to development. Education is important tool that is applied to the contemporary world to succeed as it mitigates the problems we face in everyday life.