Sunday, 12 February 2012

Towards an ‘open’ education system “Textbooks and education in Pakistan”

Karachi

For Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist, perhaps the most distressing trend in young students today is the fact that they no longer want to become scientists. “It has become part of our national culture,” and the result for him is evident, “we can no longer differentiate between the original science by Abdus Salam and the copy cat version by bomb makers”.

In a session on “Textbooks and education in Pakistan”, the very vocal MIT doctor clearly sided with modern western

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