Question

According to the article, why has Aansoo taken on the responsibility of educating these children instead of the local and federal education authorities? Cite evidence to support your answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

Aansoo Kohli has taken up the task of educating the young children because  of their Hindu marginalized background. Also, the lack of schools and the teachers (even though the government appointed teachers still pocket their salaries without doing any work), and the lack of awareness about the importance of education also led her to try to change it as much as she can.

Explanation:

From the informational text In Pakistan, A Self-styled Teacher Holds Class For 150 In A Cowshed by Philip Reeves, the text is a report about Aansoo Kohli. She is a "20-year-old student in the final stages of a bachelor’s degree" who took upon the work and duty of teaching children in her village without any pay or help. She teaches the young boys and girls in her school- a "cowshed" turned into a school, hardly with essential items for a classroom.

But this act of this young girl is not without purpose. Herself a physically handicapped person, she still works on her aim, providing education to these small children so that they will not end up living the life of their parents. Aansoo declares "I’ll make these children doctors, I’ll make them teachers and engineers". She is determined to change the lives of these children as much as she can. And she did the work by herself because the government appointed teachers did nothing to educate children but took all their salaries.

The author even states "a girls’ school less than a mile from Aansoo’s village that has long been closed because the teachers never showed up". Such is the condition of education for the Hindu children in Pakistan. And the lack of awareness about the importance of education is something she also aims to change.