Female Education & Bangladesh — Sajid Sami Chowdhury

Education is the backbone of a nation. The prosperity of a country mainly depends on the education of her population. About fifty percent of the total population of a country is female. A country cannot expect her prosperity avoiding this large part of population. A man or women without education leads the life of a lower animal. It's not possible to do everything in life only men. They need the help of women. in that case, female education is necessary in any ways. Firstly, women have some special task and duties. Education is very necessary to do there duties properly. Without education all there prospective faculties will be crippled. Secondly, every woman is a potential mother. Education of a child greatly depends upon its mother. Napoleon was once asked what the great need of France was. He answered. “Nation’ s progress is impossible without trained and educated mothers. If the women of my country are not educated, about half the people will be ignorant. “To educate a girl means to educate a future family line. It is the mother who is the first teacher of the child. If she no light, how can she light the child lamp. In the case, an educated mother would able to bring up better than an uneducated mother. Thirdly, social responsibilities should also be shared between men and woman. In conjugal life a women can help her husband. For this purpose a women has to be educated. Otherwise she would not be able o understand her responsibilities of family. Besides, women of present society are much neglected women should be educated. There are some people who are strongly opposed to the female education. They think that women’s only duty is to do household affairs, rearing children and ministering to the comforts of there male partners. For this reason they say it is useless to educate women. We cannot think of the progress of our country avoiding our female. So all necessary steps should be taken to encourage female education for the survival of our country. It is a matter of joy that our government has already taken different steps for the expansion of female education.

For the last ten years, the major focus of the global education community has been on getting children into school. And that effort has been a success: most of the world’s children live in countries on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary completion by 2015.

But behind that progress is a problem—one that grows with each additional child that walks through the classroom door. Some children in those classes are learning nothing. Many more are learning a small fraction of the syllabus. They complete primary school unable to read a paragraph, or do simple addition, or tell the time.

They are hopelessly ill-equipped for secondary education or almost any formal employment. The crisis of learning is both deep and widespread. It is a crisis for children, too many of whom leave school believing they are failures. And it is a crisis for their communities and countries, because economic analysis suggests it is what workers know—not their time in school—that makes them more productive and their economies more prosperous.

School systems in many developing countries are chronically underfunded. Many are filled with undernourished children of illiterate parents and staffed by poorly trained teachers who lack mastery of the subjects they teach. But the crisis of learning is about far more than funding, training, or the socioeconomic status of students. It is about education ministries that have measured success on inputs such as budget, student numbers, teachers, and schools rather than outcomes such as students who can read. It is about parents and parliamentarians who demand schooling and simply assume learning will result. Fixing the learning crisis will take systemic reform stretching beyond the education sector. It will take teachers, headmasters, and education officials with the mandate to focus on learning. And it will take those officials being held accountable for learning outcomes by informed stakeholders including parents, parliamentarians, and employers.

Assessment regimes are a central part of this reform effort. They can provide evidence on the scale of the learning crisis as a lever for reform. They can track progress on improvements and provide the evidence base for what works. They empower parents to demand better outcomes—or move their kids to where they can find them. This report of the CGD Study Group on Measuring Learning Outcomes suggests that implementing assessment regimes that allow stakeholders to compare across schools, districts, and countries would cost a small fraction of current education budgets. It calls for international support for national assessment efforts including financial and technical assistance.

The Study Group includes funders, education experts, former education ministers, and pioneers of independent learning assessment in the developing world.

The group’s work builds on CGD’s sustained engagement in education, including research on a Millennium Learning Goal, aid effectiveness in the sector, and a

focus on educational inclusion for girls, in particular those from minority groups.

Many men spend their evening time at clubs and societies. But a gentleman with an educated wife will not feel the need of a club or a society. He can share his thoughts with her. He can have her advice in trouble. He can spend his leisure in her pleasant company.

An educated lady is a good friend, a clever nurse and a useful adviser to her husband. So she is a true helpmate. She can get her husband’s a affection and regard. An educated lady is always able to share in sorrows. She takes body duties in emergency or need. She takes care of domestic responsibility. She also takes service to help in need.

There is saying in English “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”. The meaning is that the mother exercises a very great influence over the lives of her children. She is able to mould their thoughts and character. If she is educated , she will make such impression on the mind of her son that she will enable him in later life to grow into a great man.

It is true that education will enable women to make their parents, husbands and children truly happy. Hence it is very necessary that women should be educated. An educated girl is more important than an educated boy.

The government of Bangladesh formulated the female secondary education enhancement policy in the mid 1990s with a view to increasing enrolment of female secondary students. The study has analysed the impacts of this policy on female secondary education. It has applied index number approach and used secondary data to analyse the policy-impacts through changes in the patterns of female secondary student enrolment-the gross enrolment ratio, net enrolment ratio, net attendance rate, and gender parity and disparity indices in secondary education. It has found that this policy has positively impacted on the the rate of enrolment with a significant increase in student numbers but failed to reduce the drop-out rate. The government should formulate complementary education policy to achieve the quantity and quality in female secondary education. The findings and implications of the policy analysis of this study may be of interest to researchers, development practitioners and policy makers.

Bangladeshi women are contributing as doctors, teachers, lawyers, and responsible officers. We are now fully alive to the need of imparting education to women. We should realize that illiterate and ignorant women cannot be helpful to progress of the country. The bright future of Bangladesh depends on the all round development of female candidates.

Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart voices and original ideas take center stage - with no ads in sight. Watch
Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox. Explore
Get unlimited access to the best stories on Medium — and support writers while you’re at it. Just $5/month. Upgrade