"We have literacy rate of 67% and we have 20 million children who are out of school and the pandemic created further problem for the education of children." Shafqat Mahmood, Minister of Education.
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He added, "There is an educational apartheid where we have an elite based educational system. Then we have government schools which have been neglected. And then we have religious schools where each institution has a different curriculum."
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Shafqat Mahmood, Minister of Education at The Future Summit "An education gives you a way of understanding and looking at the world and if you are taught different things then it means that there is no such thing as a collective psyche of the nation, (1/2)
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it is a divided psyche and we are trying to address this through the single national curriculum." (2/2)