WHAT IS INFORMATION SYSTEMS TODAY
Information technology is important and indispensable to the li of human beings. Transmission, recording or memory and processing of information are three essential processes of informaion. … Read more
THE POWER AND FUNCTION OF MEDIA IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
London! Imagine the city of London, for a moment in your mind. What do you see? Westminister Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and Bright red double decker buses. Even if you’ve never been to London, you are aware of London; you know how does it look like not only this but you can imagine London … Read more
WHAT IS EDUCATION FOR MODERNIZATION
When we speak of universal education as one of the characteristics of highly modernized societies and as one of the special problems of latecomers to modernization, we mean as a minimum attaining universal or nearly universal literacy, Contrary to our general belief, the great change in history with regard to literacy rates was not a … Read more
WHAT IS BOOKS WHICH HAVE INFLUENCED ME
There are, indeed, books and books; and there are books which, as Lamb said, are not books at all. I have come across both the types-the trashy as well the useful. Both have left their impress behind, but I shall mention only those which influenced my mind for the better. first book that I read … Read more
THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF BROADCASTING
In the Western countries, the radio is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments of education. In Pakistan a majority of listeners in for it to listen the recorded music. The average Pakistani feels bored by literary and scientific talks; his great interest being the lighter items on way as he reg. ‘ds … Read more
URGENT NEED FOR A NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATION: ITS SHAPE AND PROSPECTS
There are no two opinions about the fact that the existing system of education is in shambles. Almost daily the colleges and universities are getting into news, not for research or scholastic achievements, but for strikes, protest processions, gheraos of the Vice-Chancellors and Principals and other non-academic matters. Hardly any university or college, in any … Read more
WHAT I THINK ABOUT EXAMINATIONS
In the course of his school or college career a student has to go through a prescribed course of studies. These studies range over a variety of subjects. The subjects, again, are such as are calculated to impart to the student a working knowledge of most things that are of everyday importance in this world. … Read more
WHAT IS THE WONDERS OF PSYCHOLOGY
Among the modern sciences all have revealed such wonders of Nature compared with which the wildest fairy-tales look to be sober statements. For example, the science of biology opens before us a world of struggling, evolving, changing animal species which altogether revolutionises our entire outlook on life and man. Geology has given us a view … Read more
VALUES OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN PAKISTAN
We live in two universes, a universe of communication and a universe of things, with which science deals. We are always talking or constantly listening. When no one is around us, we talk to ourselves. Words are the means by which our civilisation is developed and passed on. Our language determines largely the character of … Read more
EDUCATION VOUCHERS IN PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE
An education voucher system exists when governments make payments to families that enable their children to enter public or private schools of their choice. The tax funded payments can be made directly to parents or indirectly to the selected schools; their purpose is to increase parental choice, to promote school competition, and to allow low … Read more