No Punishment But Love (Mar Naheen Pyar)

I am Speechless, thinking continuously, endless thoughts surrounded my head for hours and hours, what is the basic education policy of Punjab Government? Where we are heading to? What are the aims and objectives and goals of this educational system? Is there any (Intellectual)? Or all are sitting Monkeys copying the foreign policies on “as it is” basis.

 Before we find the answers of all above mentioned questions, I think that we have a look on the Behavior Modification process which is being used for thousands of the years by parents, as well as teachers, in home and schools. According to society norms we have a standard behavior for every situation and every person, and we expect that, but when the response is different, there are needs to change or modify that behavior according to society norms. For example if a child is not having interest in studies, and showing hyper active behavior, we need to modify his hyper activeness to calm and relax condition make him/her ready to learn, as other students. To change behavior we use different steps and the last one is PUNISHMENT. Punishment is always used to change the behavior as a last tool, in each and every society as we know that every society have its own laws regarding rewards and punishments, and the structure of rewards and punishments is a guaranty to keep society peaceful. Islam also teach us about rewards and punishments, and the whole life of a Muslim is revolves around “To Dos and Not to Dos”, willing to be rewarded and to avoid the punishment.

Now come to the present slogan of the Education Department of Punjab, “Mar Naheen Pyar” (No Punishment but Love). And this is not only a slogan; every kind of punishment is strictly banned in the schools of Punjab. Result, decreasing the social values, decreasing the quality of education, decreasing the respect of teachers in society, and the list goes long and long.

The situation demands quick and serious action to completely change the educational system, according to the norms of our Pakistani and furthermore Punjabi Society. We can’t impose any policy, worked successfully at any foreign country, without any further study or without modifying that according to the norms and needs of Pakistan and Punjab. If an American or Canadian use toilet paper instead of water, it

may fit to their environment but if a Pakistani use that, he will have a notable smell, due to warm climate in Pakistan, with which he can’t move in the society. The Student Central Curriculum is also that use of toilet paper which is now spreading the disgusting smell which is unbearable for the general public of the society.