What are the needs of school in Pakistan?

Answer 1

As with a number of countries, there is a big gap between education for the rich and education for everyone else. While wealthy Pakistani families can afford to send their children to private schools, free public education is not widely available to the poor. As a result, many poor children either do not go to school at all (many are sent to work, under a system of debt bondage, where children's labor help to pay off their parents' debts) or they go to a Muslim religious school ("madrassa") where they only learn religious subjects and are taught by rote memorization.

Thus, the most pressing need in Pakistan is for free public education for the poor, from elementary right up through high school. If Pakistani children are going to be able to move out of poverty, they need more opportunities to study, exposure to a wide variety of subjects, access to new books and computers. Resistance to allowing girls to study must also stop, since in the modern world, girls are as much in need of education as boys. And Pakistan's justice system needs to work to eradicate debt bondage and prosecute companies that hire children.