'Put to the test'.

Byline: Prof Wasif M. Khan - Lahore

APROPOS Dr Anjum Altaf's opinion piece 'Put to the test' (Oct 5). This was yet another thoughtful wake-up call in the long series of scholarly thoughts on the education catastrophe we face.

Despite their different vantage points, Dr Hoodbhoy, Dr Hamid Zaman and Dr Faisal Bari all bring well-tested theoretical and practical ideas to arrest the collapse and breathe some sanity into our moribund education system.

While Dawn deserves credit for its commitment to education by highlighting the issue, I don't know if the policymakers ever read such wisdom, or simply consign it to their oversized trash cans, but it borders on criminal neglect. At the policy level, the education minister seems...