Bring role-play activities into the education system |
Pakistan's education problems are not just about money. A big problem is a bad mindset. Educational institutions ignore a simple, budget-conscious and powerful tool: role-playing.
Our education system is very good at one thing: making students world-class memorisers. It is very bad at another: making students think, speak, decide and act.
We spend billions to build human parrots, and then wonder why our economy crashes, our offices are dysfunctional, and our society is fractured. We are creating the very crisis we complain about.
From the very beginning, the entire goal is to memorise facts for the exam. Role-playing is messy. It involves discussions, different viewpoints, and no single perfect answer. Because of this, a teacher thinks, "Why waste time letting students act out a problem when I can just tell them the answer to memorise?" Thus, the system values silent obedience over active thinking.
Then comes the sad excuse of "no money", even though this method is almost free. That is........