EDUCATION Essay Outline

Outline 1: Critical Analysis of the Education System of Pakistan

1) Introduction
I. Quaid's View On Education
II. Concept of Education: Meaning And Definition
III. Significance of Education: As Pillar of Success
IV. Education: An Agent of Socioeconomic Reforms
V. Spinal Cord of the Nation
VI. Thesis Statement leading to Conclusion
2) Pakistan's Education System as per 1973 Constitution
I. Educational And Economic Reforms in Backward Areas
II. Removing Illiteracy
III. Promotion of Technical Education: Basic Concern
IV. Education: Access To All
V. Women Participation, Etc.
3) Factors Leading to Catastrophe
I. Indecisive Medium of Education: English? / Urdu?
II. Co-Education: A Social Dilemma
III. Lack Of Uniform Academic Syllabus
IV. Women Education: Concept in Doldrums
V. Lack Of Creative Education Methods: Cramming Culture
VI. Political Interference In Education Institutions: Student/ Teacher Unions
VII. Political Pressures/ Influences
VIII. Teacher Absenteeism
IX. Ghost Schools
X. Less Than 2% GDP, For Education
XI. Crippled Economy, etc.
4) Education Policy 2009
I. Budget for education.. increased by 7%
II. All primary schools upgraded to middle standard schools
III. Higher education percentage to be increased from 4.7% to 15% by 2015
IV. Emphasis on technical education
V. Establishment of residential colonies for the teachers
VI. Special incentives for teachers willing to work in remote areas, etc.
5) Critical Analysis of Education Policy 2009
I. Incremental Policy
II. Uniformity In Education System: Globalization
III. Social Cohesion
IV. Bridging Public Private Gap
V. Overcoming Structural Divides
VI. Improving Management And Planning Capacity: Establishing a National Standards and
Certification Agency for Education Management and Information System EMIS for monitoring
and evaluation
VII. Involvement Of Communities
VIII. Islamic Education
IX. Early Childhood Education
X. Elementary Education
XI. Secondary And Higher Education
XII. Literacy And Formal Education
XIII. Emergency Education
XIV. Improving Quality Of Education
6) Suggestions
 I. Individual Level
II. Decentralised system/ local government Level
i. Village
ii. Council
iii. Tehsil
iv. District
III. Provincial Level
IV. Federal Government Level
i. At least 7% budget for education sector
ii. Accountability and transparency in education department at all levels
iii. Public-private partnership
iv. Madrassa reforms
v. Registration of madaris
vi. Introduction of English and technical subjects
7) Education Sector Reforms
I. Primary Education For All
II. Making Civil Society Vibrant
III. Female Education: A Keystone
IV. Promotion of Technical Education
V. Incentives For The Teachers: Increase In Salaries
VI. Revised And Updated Curriculum
VII. PTC/CT Replaced By Diploma In Education
VIII. Enhancing The Role Of Higher Education Commission
IX. Expansion in Universities
X. Virtual Universities, Etc.
XI. Investment in IT
8) Conclusion
I. Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally
and politically, and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.''
(Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
Outline 2: Meaning and Purpose of Education
1) Introduction: In introduction i gave a brief idea about what i am going to discuss in the rest of the essay
and wrote a quotation.
2) Meaning of Education in Different context.
I. Religious Meaning
II. Social Meaning- included another quotation.
III. Political Meaning
IV. Economic Meaning.
3) Purpose Of Education
I. Religious Purpose
i. To follow respective religion
ii. To act on the fundamentals of religion.
iii. Benefits in the world.
II. Social Purpose
i. Awareness of the society.
ii. Development of society.
iii. Humanistic approach towards society.
III. Political Purpose
i. knowledge of politics
ii. Awareness about one's rights
iii. Knowledge of Do's and Dont's ( write about law and order)
iv. Awareness of voting Rights ( quotation)
IV. Economic Purpose
 i. knowledge of economics.
ii. Awareness about economic concepts
iii. Economic development
4) Conclusion

Outline 3: Liberal Education

1) Introduction
2) Definition
I. Liberal education means to empower an individual and prepare him to deal with diversity,
complexity and change.
3) Importance
I. Skarnovey says: Liberal education: the developing countries must adopt it as it is a necessity.
II. Kurth Kahin; Liberal education teaches something about everything and everything about
something
4) Sphere of liberal education
5) Objectives
I. To produce informed citizens.
II. To develop creative thinking
III. To improve skills and competitiveness
IV. To inculcate communication skills
6) Present style of education in Pakistan
7) Prerequisites for liberal education
8) Advantages of liberal education
I. Economic development
II. Employment opportunities
III. Interdependent and stable society
IV. Peace and harmony in community
9) Conclusion