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The major political event in the history of our forefathers was the "Abolition of Landlordism Movement". It will be difficult to find the answer if we cannot analyse all the events of our political history in the context of the "Zamindari Eviction Movement". The dream of this movement was to establish the absolute right of the farmer over the agricultural sector.
It was on this basis that our forefathers jumped into the Pakistan movement. As a result, the state of Pakistan was created in 1948. Therefore, if the Bangla language of the then-East Pakistan is not recognised as the state language, the farmers, subjects and people of this East Pakistan supported the dream of establishing Pakistan.
Because they (farmers, subjects and us) had a dream of happiness, his life was spent in hardship so that his son's life would be good, i.e. happy and successful. His son should go to university and become a George-barrister. Then their days of trouble will be over. The farmer's hard work will be worth it.
The farmer earns by sweat and sends that money to his son so that his son can study and get a job. If the only state language of Pakistan is Urdu, then the dream that Pakistan established for the economic liberation will remain a dream. He can't let that happen.
Because farmer knows - "He who studies is riding a carriage-horse". He wants his son to ride carriage-horse and at that time, a job means government job. But if the state language is Urdu, then the sons and daughters of East Pakistan's peasants, commoners and the people will participate in unequal competition with the combined Urdu-speaking sons and daughters of West Pakistan. Because then the boys and girls of East Pakistan have to write, speak and learn in Urdu language and have to participate in unequal competition with the Urdu-speaking Pakistanis themselves, it is absolutely impossible to get success. That means getting a job will remain elusive. Economic liberation will not come for their life and livelihood.
When the state of Pakistan declared Urdu as its only state language. At that time, the peasants of East Bengal suffered a lot because their dreams were broken. As a result of this incident, various types of discrimination started to be visible at different levels in the society of East Pakistan at that time, i.e. Bangladesh today.
And just then, the students of Dhaka University at that time understood and realised the matter in a practical sense and developed the language movement. The history of that language movement was written on February 21, 1952. Go shoot, In the context of that, students were martyred—Abul Barkat, Abdul Jabbar, Rafiquddin Ahmed, Abdus Salam and Shafiur Rahman and many other students whose names are not known.
Through this movement created around the Bengali language in order to protect the fundamental rights, the public demand was expressed with the aim of establishing it as one of the state languages of the dominion of Pakistan. Which has been established as "International Mother Language Day" in today's era. This language movement has taught us how much mother tongue is valuable for life and economy.
In the same way, when India was divided into two nations based on the two-nation theory in 1947, when India and Pakistan were born, present Bangladesh, that is, East Pakistan at that time, was connected with West Pakistan. The same phenomenon was repeated in West Pakistan and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) in the development of language movement in a similar overall context. So the Bengali language movement was a cultural and political movement that took place in the then East Bengal (now Bangladesh).
Similarly, during the British period, the British established the English language as the state language by abolishing the Persian language in India. As a result, government jobs were scarce due to the low knowledge of English (especially Muslims) living in the region and therefore the British took all kinds of decisions due to their strong position in all government institutions, including the bureaucracy. This created the same unequal social, political and economic disparity between the people living in India and the British, and in view of that, the "Zamindar" system was introduced. Which is a rare example of discrimination and exploitation. The British had designed the entire education system of the subcontinent to protect their interests. Their main objective was to make educated slaves who would never be a hindrance to their rule but a helper.
They compartmentalise the entire education system to achieve their goals. For example, if one studies science, he does not need to study religion. Similarly, one who studies in the medical field does not need any knowledge of engineering field etc.
The British at the same time added non-realistic education to the curriculum instead of realistic education. As a result, the interest to know and learn stopped among the students. Knowledge has become incomplete. Students are only interested in what is required for the minimum pass.
According to the legacy left by the British, in our education system, a student has to take a decision whether to pursue arts, commerce, or Commerce or Science after reaching the 9th standard. A student has no education or skills in life skills, technical skills and religious skills before or after higher education after the 12th standard.
As we grow older, we tend to develop a kind of depression. Especially at a certain stage of life, people try to determine a difficult equation of their achievements and non-achievements. He asks himself, what is his achievement in this life? How much he is selfish and how much he fails? Where was he supposed to be and where is he now? How useful is the education and degree gained in his life?
Basically, the origin of this depression in our life is long ago. At different stages of life, it condenses and takes the shape of a huge storm at one time. Thus, the dreams of a large section of the middle class began to drown in the realisation of these expectations and disappointments.
The question is what is the way to get rid of it?
A person named Samiul Haque proposed the entire education process in 5 phases. Where classes 1 to 10 will be the basic education phase. Then 11-12 will be diploma phase. Then 13–14 will be bachelor phase and 15–16 will be masters. Later, more concentrated studies phase in 17-18.
Here if a student is enrolled in class 1 - 7 years then he will be able to work by getting diploma from 18. He can complete his bachelor's degree by working for two years in addition to his job. If you want to become a specialist in any field, only Masters level will be. However, must have two years of experience in the relevant field.
He suggested only one medium of the same curriculum instead of Bangla medium, English version, Edexcel, Cambridge, Alia, or Qoumi medium. He suggested having a mandatory subject called Ethics, Morals and Commonsense in every class, as well as life skills and survival skills classes.
Every student must complete at least 5 life skills. However, there will be some mandatory subjects. For example, before the 10th standard, everyone should be proficient in a minimum of 5 international languages.
Every school will have multimedia. In schools in remote areas, teachers will teach online and teachers will be the most respected citizens of the country. Teaching will be the highest-paid profession. Where only the highest skilled knowledgeable and ethical personalities will get a chance.
Similarly, Muslims will be proficient in reading, writing and speaking Arabic and Christians in Aramaic and Latin. Hindus will be fluent in Sanskrit. Muslims will study Quran, Hadith and Science. Hindus will study Veda, Upanishad and Science. Christians will study the Bible and science. All will exhibit their findings at the Religion and Religions Fair.
How can the output of such educational practices be? According to him, a professional would simultaneously become a psychologist, a scientist, a doctor, a Unani specialist and again, a spiritualist in his own religion.
In short, the ways to improve education management as well as the system are as follows:
Promoting a truly merit-based education system.
Modernizing and modernizing the educational system in keeping with the developed world.
To introduce diploma education programs in various subjects for medium-skilled students.
Introduction of technical education system for low-skilled students.
Bringing students with high-intermediate talent to various professional education programs.
Conducting research-based education for highly gifted students.
Introduction of compulsory “IT Education Course” from school level. As well as introducing different post-secondary/technical education programs engaged in various types of human services. Such as: Nursing, Beautician, Hotel Servicing a chef, Tourism, Garments, Farming (Agricultural and Animal) Driving, Mechanics, Franchising, etc.
8. Compulsory teaching of at least 5 foreign languages is needed.
The writer is a Researcher and Columnist.
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