by Mohammad Borhanuddin 3 September 2022
What prevents Bangladesh from becoming a first-world country?
Not money, not infrastructure, not population, not even laziness of the people.
It’s education.
Do not panic when you hear this—there are no solid educational institutions in this county.
What you will see in the name of school, college or university are in fact political centers, or business centers at best. Be it public or private, all parties of the owners, regulators, students and even teachers are active parts of those political or business organizations.
Do not count on what the officially declared data says: 93% literacy rate.
That is the height of the audacity of the officials of this mostly uneducated nation who are intellectually disable and detached from the world that defines education and rates educational progress.
Then, do not mistake, this is no more one of the colonial forts or Halls.
This is called University of Dhaka, established in 1921—once upon a time considered as Oxford of the country breeding actually educated people. But it has been long since it has been turned to one of the forts of the political party/s of the country.
Well, of course, I am not saying all that bad though. And I am not all hopeless.
In the article below, you can get a glimpse of what actually is happening in that country in the name of education, educational institutions, teachers and students.
Trust me, the way it goes, Bangladesh needs at least a century or two to become a first world/developed country in real sense. This is still a poor, backward nation— as of today.
The author studied International Relations at University of Dhaka. This piece was published in Quora.
