The role of education for joint uplift of a nation is irrefutably central. No development is possible without a skillful and trained human resource. Through education, more skilled people can be produced who can contribute in recreation and development of the country.  A sound economy serves the basis of development and progress, can not grow until citizens do not understand the economic progress of a country. It is education that helps the man to understand and protect environment for healthy atmosphere. It helped the world transform from barren land into bejeweled dreamland.

The collective socio-economic and political advances of a nation are determined by the degree of concentration diverted to improve its literacy graph and the amount of resources allocated to this preliminary societal need. A nation reaches to prominence, turn unbeatable and matchless, only when greater intrepid steps are taken to eliminate illiteracy by declaring the state of educational emergency. The profound significance of education in societal ascend is established undisputed, contrary to being failed to inspire our politicians.

Unluckily, we inhabit a society where people in twenty first century deem modern contradictory to Islamic teachings. Formerly, Taliban reiterated their support to education in Afghanistan given in a proper environment in line with Islamic instructions was set in. “Parents should not to enroll their children to schools funded by Christians,” Taliban warned. None is defiant of the fact, Taliban talks of education, promoting violence, bloodshed, butchery and mass killing of innocents on biased religious grounds given they have attacked several schools. It is worth mentioning what they interpret is the utter negation of gist of Islamic induction. President Ashraf Ghani has called on the Taliban and other armed opposition groups to stop attacking schools which they say is against Islam. Ghani strongly criticized attacks on schools, saying that depriving children from education was an enmity with Islam and the people of Afghanistan.

‎Aiming to put Afghanistan on the course of endemic upheaval and turmoil, Taliban’s advice suffices. It is evident that education can function as a root cause and feeder of conflict, with the potential to retrench ethnic/religious divides and other societal cleavages. It is right for the world and us to worry about the impact of Afghanistan’s dysfunctional educational system especially when it has been demonstrated that poorly educated young men in a country as large as Afghanistan pose a serious complication country itself.

Following the reinstatement of democracy in Afghanistan, some degree betterment is observed which is not appreciable but satisfactory. By 2006, over 4 million male and female students were enrolled in schools throughout Afghanistan. By 2013 there were 10.5 million students attending schools in Afghanistan, a country with a population of around 27.5 million people. There has been remarkable success in recent years in rebuilding it. This year, more than 1.2 million people are expected to attend schools, of which, 41 percent are girls. There at the same time school facilities or institutions were also being refurbished or improved, with more modern-style schools being built each year. However, there is still great number of students who yet are deprived of education. It is said nearly half the children and young people of school age still do not attend school.

The notoriety does not end here; the teacher deficiency and incompetence is another obstacle hindering the way to progress. There are about 200,000 teachers serving these students. For the coming years, more than 110,000 additional teachers are still needed for primary and secondary schools. Reportedly, there only about a quarter of the teachers have the requisite qualifications. According to statistics owned by the Ministry of Education, 80 percent of the country’s 165,000 teachers had achieved the equivalent of a high school education or did not complete their post-secondary studies.

This is true to run literary program; institutes equipped with every requisite stand crucial. Till date there are insufficient schools particularly in the most remote part of the country. It was reported in 2013 that there were 16,000 schools across Afghanistan, with 10.5 million students. There are 40 percent of schools were conducted in permanent buildings. According to report of Education Ministry there are 3 million children remained deprived of education and requested $3 billion to construct 8,000 additional schools over next two years. Aside to the aforesaid facts, a glance at our deserted national priorities disheartens us of interminable irrational and abrupt priorities which happens to be mostly influential than inspirational. The undertakings executed under the influence of forged circumstances than national priorities yield not, the desired result based on national interest.

Afghanistan’s spending on education is not enough seeing the magnitude of illiteracy. The remedy is to increase the proportion of public resources going into education. If tax-to-GDP ratio cannot be increased, the state should be willing to divert resources from sectors with lower priority towards education. The donor community has been prepared to help with funds when it is not feared that domestic resources were constrained to allow for an increase in public sector expenditure on education. The obvious solution is to invest in teacher training, building infrastructure for educational institutes, reforming the curriculum and improving the quality of textbooks that should be deficient of religio-ethnic biases.

It is high time we should spend greater resources building human resources. Undeniably, no nation can survive and succeed without quality or modern education, given it builds the nations and become the cause of prosperity it gives the path that leads towards bright feature.