Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Macaulay's Children of Pakistan




What can you really expect from this class, other then westernization of Pakistani culture, society, values, if God forbids they manage to assume some influential positions in corporate world or government institutions?
This is definitely Lord Macaulay's dream come true, as such examples conform to the description of 'Macaulay's children' about whom Macaulay himself said:
"We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population." (Click here for complete document)
It is ironic that our educational institutions even after 65 years of independence (read in dependence) are still following the path laid by the very colonial masters, who freed us physically though kept ruling our minds with the help of institutions they left behind. If the trend continued, would we embrace freedom ever in its truest sense?

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