This is a myth that education of masses will solve every problem, its not even a concrete plan. In last 70 years, %age of education has gone up but Pakistan prosperity index has gone down, only thing that has gone up is popularity of Islam and Army(Army is lot stronger than 70 years ago) that is factor of culture we choose to invest in rather than arbitrary education index
What people forget west(or anybody else in the past, just read the history with honesty) did not get prosperous by first waiting for everybody to get educated and then invest in liberal principles like freedom of speech, democracy, free market economy, justice. These ideas spawn from gradually and consistently investing in a culture where equality and freedom were given higher priority than other competing ideas of traditions and tribalism. They did not achieve in a flash cut, but more open culture create better opportunity for more people, they can make better choices, they were ale to educate themselves over time. You teach people how to catch the fish, culture is most important investment as a person, community or nation makes, we are fundamentally on a wrong cultural course, nothing else will happen without changing the culture.
We take education as some boring ratification process(that's literally we have even in Science, ratification produces all those ENG/Drs, who just want to do their work quietly and had not get into transforming the nation to better culture, ratification culture does not change even themselves forget about nation) , that once we all go through it, we will automatically become a better and prosperous nation once that process is complete, since we do not have resources right now to invest in the mass scale educating the nation project, we cannot get better. We are waiting for help from sky, who will some how give us a magically leader(s) or money to educate the nation. Till then we can blame everything on this helpless state, not having good leader is the real problem, we don't have to do anything other than wait for right set of leaders, in a way God is either failing or punishing us.
Our national ideology is still driven and protected by 1000s year old military tribalism culture, where traditions, religion and national identity are intertwine and must be protected by force. Educated masses are equally invested in protecting those values, since Frankly ratification of modern education does not bring any change in them, they are more protective of 1400 old ideology and never dare to challenge that. The ones who dare to do are literally handful, they have to leave the country or the world, rest of the nation is happy to that they are gone
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