Abstract
Higher education is not tailored to the low-heel expectations of the intellectual
plebians and pedestrians who are more concerned with stuffing their breadbaskets than
fine-tuning their sensitivities. Our country is choc-o-bloc with "cramming contraptions"
i.e., students who are more obsessed with gurgling out the hashed ideas of others than
chiseling something refreshingly innovative from scattered debris and broken stone. They
are locked up with the third-rate and scratched-out material which leaves little leeway for
high-jump creativity. While mere reproduction is stultifying, creativity is a stretch of
lush-green oasis in a dust-dashed, sand-smitten desert. The recent attempt by our
government to popularize higher education is a blatant travesty of its soul-stirring
purpose. It, in fact, amounts to its trivialization because higher education carries an elitist
halo around it. It patronizes and promotes creative minds and not the minds that are
choked with half-chewed, plagiarized information.
PROFESSOR IFTIKHAR AHMED. (2006) HIGHER EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN, Paradigms , Vol 1-2, Issue 1.
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