With the help of proper type of education it is
possible to mould the character of the people according to the demands of the society.
That is why education is given primary importance, whatever the form of the
government may be. Stalin in Russia, Mao in China and Hitler in Germany made
use of education for cultivating particular outlook. In order to make a country
strong from the military point of view it is generally thought that the students
at the college should be given compulsory military training so that they may be
useful to the country at the time of need.
No country can afford to maintain a huge army
because it involves heavy expenditures. That is why there is a tendency on the
part of different government to keep a reserve force, quite familiar it’s the
war but not regularly paid by the State. If the college boys and girls are
giver military training they can help in defending the country if such an
emergency arises. Otherwise also it is necessary for the people to have
training in the use of arms because they can be of great help in fighting the
anti-social element.
By imparting military training we will be able to
enforce discipline in the colleges and the schools. Now a day, the purpose f
education is frustrated because of the indiscipline among the students. It is
possible to foster discipline because by imparting military training we will be
observing military discipline. Disciplined students will be able to pay more
attention to their studies than to the activities which do not help the nation.
Military training will indirectly make the students
patriotic in their outlook. While taking training they start thinking of the .defense
of their country so they feel more and more attached to their own nation. Some
may think that patriotic feeling can be .developed even by imparting proper
type of education but this is a mistaken view because till the person develops
the feeling himself it is not possible to impose that feeling upon him.
Some people think that military education will make
them like in their thinking. A trained person is more concerned with use of
arms than the one who never got training. It is feared that the warlike
tendencies among the people will be a greater danger to peace and prosperity Of
the nation. This is also Pakistan’s view. Training in handling arms gives
confidence and it does not make the sons warlike. Those who indulge in this
type of thinking forget training is for teaching them skill to handle arms and
not for making them warlike. They fear the armed rebellion, but it can be checked
by making them patriotic in their outlook.
The government has not taken any set in this
direction. N CC training is also national and it is not imparted in a proper
manner. The camps which are organized by the universities and colleges are more
for the sake of publicity than anything else. More over the services of the
trained people are not utilized at any stage of their life. In some of the universities science is one of
the subjects. But that too is more or less theoretical. Pakistan may have to
face India any time but at the same time she cannot afford to maintain a huge,
army, so the only alternative is to maintain reserve force by training the
young people in the country.