Education In Bangladesh Essay

Education is the backbone of a nation. This is said more than believed in our society. The perception about education is that it ensures institutional degrees coupled with an educated conscience. Institutional degrees are translated into certificates on the basis of which the degree earners find jobs or start business on their own or carve out a way of life according to their suitability and fitness. There is not much too hazard in earning a certificate testifying to the acquisition of certain level of education and proficiency in any chosen field. But guaranteeing achieving an educated conscience through an academic degree is often a far cry. Bangladesh is in such a limbo now. Educated people are increasing but educated conscience is diminishing.

History also supports this vulgarisation process of education, I mean the money-oriented attitude that was invisibly present in how our parents in four or five or six decades ago wanted us to pursue a more practically-focused discipline like engineering and medicine rather than the arts subjects, or let us call them, the slow subjects. At the time as formal educational perspective was not as well-focused and sharpened as it is today, so the parental desire for the children to pursue a practical subject was synonymous with seeking noble aims like helping the nation through engineering brain or curing the nation of physical ailment by doctors. What went hidden in this apparently noble objective were the parents’/guardians’ pecuniary goals that an engineer or a doctor son or daughter means fatter purse, greater security of residences and gaining other tangible means. That is why for generations together we got thousands of engineers and doctors who became proud owners of houses and other amenities of life but our engineering knowledge and medicinal skills could not have been defined as competent enough to meet the demands of a growing nation. The engineer- and doctor-children just took it as their mission to fulfil the fiscal dreams of their parents, and subsequently their own dreams. Engineers taking bribe and doctors acting like butchers are a commonplace knowledge in our