About the year 1995 I was living in London at the time. Around that time a series of animal rights protests were organized in Brightlingsea, England what is now known as the “Battle of Brightlingsea. While this movement was going on in the town of Brightlingsea, a protest meeting was called in Trafalgar Square, also known as the “Symbol of Protest” in London.
Ireland, Scotland and other parts of Great Britain have joined by spending huge sums of money by bus, plane and train. They love animals like that. As the saying goes, ‘He who loves, serves God’! We have no love, affection, compassion, etc. for humans.
See for yourself how students live in our universities. Even while living like this, one has to get someone’s grace. To get that grace one has to endure an inhuman torture called guest room torture.
Those who will build the future of Bangladesh are staying in a place like the university inhumanely for years, being tortured, is there any protest anywhere? No we teachers are protesting, no intellectual society of the country, any parents or common people.
A student’s minimum requirement is a bed and a reading table. Even after 52 years of independence, we could not give this to our students? However, I saw in the newspaper yesterday that 44.5 million taka has been spent on the inauguration of a building in Chittagong University!
See our MPs, ministers, bureaucrats ride in luxury cars worth crores of rupees. More residential high-rises are built for bureaucrats than required. There are many in Dhaka itself, which are uninhabited. Meanwhile, our students do not get a place to sleep; sleeps in shifts and do not get good quality food.
How can we trust the government of the country where the university students live so inhumanely when they do any project on education? Few days ago they started two exams called PEC and JSC and they were giving us knowledge that the exam is a very good thing and today is exactly the opposite.
Now these two are being eliminated, along with the scholarship examination. But the children who got this scholarship got the scholarship money and got the opportunity to study in schools and colleges for free. Now that too is being taken away.
You have failed the creative test system. You have taken away the joy of doing well in exams with a bumper yield of GPA-5. In these 52 years, our government could not build schools or colleges like St. Joseph, Notre Dame, Holy Cross.
So how do you believe that the new curriculum will benefit students? So far in 52 years have you done a credible job which is good for the students? And what you do with the teachers is another pitiful chapter.
