Written by Shameem Sarwar All feel the necessity of good education in building up good citizens. What gifted person say, do or write are materials in education. We know the unknowns, venture the hidden experiences exposed on the pages of a book. In the per-historic period, people were mostly uneducated and uncivilized. With the light of education, people started to be civilized, their behavior underwent a great change and they started to live better. Education is timeless and will continue till the last day of our existence. In the early age of civilization, education was not open to all. Highly ambitious and royal families used to get education, showed respect to education. They knew the hidden power of education; people’s heart would ignite making the people feel a sense of goodness and nobility. Thus the educated persons set their positions higher enough to be worshipped by the uneducated ones. Thus a division was created in the society based on education. This division has culminated into something different being adjusted to the need and necessity of the people and craftsmanship of the user. It is now the rulers and the ruled.

I have no mind to go into this political aspect. In the beginning of my article, I used the phrase `good education’. I like to make it clear that education has, now a days, many oddities, much moss grown around its body. In order to mean the original shape of education, I have used the phrase `good education’. People get education in developing countries spending money earned hard by themselves or their earners. The cost spent for education in a poor family is not taken as a part of their family budget in most cases. This money is added to it as a surplus of total budget, as a result there comes the question of usefulness and applicability of the education earned with much hardship. Job is their main target as it should be but not without making them educated. They do not feel it necessary that education makes a man educated. Without being educated properly, they hunt for jobs with certificates only. This is in proper sense a treachery and hypocrisy in large scale. All may raise a question as to how an academic certificate comes if he or she is not educated. It sounds like a riddle, but it is possible that most students of our age can manage certificates bearing testimony of their completion of the degree without going through over the prescribed books. Most of the students now a days do not feel ease at their study desk. They think of managing certificates by corruption, adopting unfair means in the examination. This is one of the dirty sides of education sector. The whole of the education department being corrupted more or less is the other dirty side collectively. When bad luck and ill fate hovers around a country, the education department then comes into direct contact with corruption.

Miah Abdullah Wazed who had been elected twice as the Member of Parliament thought of rendering service to the education sector to help build good citizens and a good world organizing a movement, `Movement for preservation of standard education and prevention of unfair means’. It is needless to say that he looked with microscopic eyes into the education sector and was shuddering with fear at the upcoming futility of the whole world very soon. He detected 17 (seventeen) causes of the prevailing catastrophic atmosphere of the education sector. He opines to root out all of 17 (seventeen) causes that are the root cause of making bad citizens and a bad nation. Out of the seventeen reasons, he took one to work upon to root it out namely a tendency among students to unfair means in examination and it took him nearly five years to get satisfactory result. Keeping all of these seventeen reasons that make the education sector a disastrous department, a catastrophic arena, Chhatrobondhu, a title offered to Mr. Miah Abdullah Wazed by thousands of people in a thana convener meeting held in Dhaka Sports Council Auditorium on June 22, 2000, marched ahead with supports and cooperation from home and abroad.

Chhatrobondhu Miah Abdullah Wazed former MP deserves praise for his courageous efforts to carry on the movement world wide at the cost of his own and his family. To meet the finance of this big movement, he never thought of receiving any grant, donation or financial assistance from any source other than his own family fund. Moreover a lot of financial offers reached his office but he humbly refused the financial assistance in the sense that his mission would miss its target and people would take it other ways. It is going to be proved that human service to the society and to the world can be rendered with money of one’s own if one likes to. What is the most necessary matter in this regard is not the money but a mind to do so. At his ripened age, he likes to spend the rest of his days working for education, making policy on how education can set with better ideas, how the existing problems can be solved and so on. February 22, 2004