Homeschooling in Pakistan

Homeschooling in Pakistan is not very common as people think that homeschoolers cannot study and educational institutes are the only place where people can learn. Homeschooling can be a very difficult decision for parents to make especially if you’re living in Pakistan.  First of all, people make all sorts of comments like “You’re not going to send your kids to School???? I can’t believe it!” and then there’s that ever so common “How will they learn?”!  People believe that learning is some rocket science that only schools can assist kids to do and nobody can learn without it.

In the olden days, there was nothing such as school  and  parents would teach their kids whatever was considered important. They told their children the ways and rules of living, their manners; they taught them skills, like farming and knitting. There was no way parents would agree to send their kids to someone else who would teach them  their ways and punish them in any way they like for anything done that was inappropriate.

Today, in the Twenty first century, it is an extremely huge challenge for a person living in a country where the concept of homeschooling has just began to emerge, to take the initiative of homeschooling their children, for not only the parents, but the kids too, when the society and the people all consider them as a madman.

What we’re forgetting is, that there’s something called self-learning, something that means to learn by yourself, without someone being a teacher and someone else being a student. Self-learning is all about having the teacher and the student being the same thing, and that’s what homeschooling is all about.

In the huge Karachi population of twenty million, there are still just a few hundred homeschooling families, which is barely much. But all it’ll take is awareness, awareness to the good natured people of Pakistan, and hope, and soon, all the children will be free from the traps of the schooling system.