Talk:Foundation Public School
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This is a completely biased article with certain areas of the article completely copied from the original parent site at fps.edu.pk. Most of the areas of the articles look and feel EXACTLY like an ADVERT! I will be removing most of the content that are not factual references. If you do have any objection, feel free to drop a message Aly89 (talk) 21:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC) The following section was completely removed due to the biased opinion and non-verifiable facts it presents:
Education in its essence is the overall personality development of a human being, leading to a healthy, happy and full life. School is an extension of the home. It is at home, where the first learning takes place, but it is the school environment that fosters and sharpens the socio environmental attitudes of a child. A school should provide a program of learning and experience that will best prepare the student to assume the social, economic and civil responsibilities of adult life. Each educational experience is vital and meaningful to the immediate life of the student, and at the same time contributes to the development of a productive and valuable citizen. Adhering to our philosophy of providing a meaningful educational experience to our students, we follow a program which is a careful balance of academic, social, and physical challenges. Each child has ample opportunity to work independently and with others and enjoy freedom of choice and a great variety of things to choose from. We focus on the development of confidence, self-discipline and a positive self-image. We, at the Foundation Public School, believe in the individual's freedom of thought and spirit, scientific inquiry and critical thinking. We aim at providing opportunities for our students to flourish and learn in a conducive environment. We hope to prepare students to grow and develop into mature human beings, capable of making decisions realistically and with compassion. The motto of the school “Knowledge Is Power” is portrayed in the insignia encompassed on a shield is the “Eagle” or “Shaheen”. Chosen by the management as it inspires and symbolizes intelligence, it also signifies a flight towards freedom and knowledge. The waves on the eagle’s body represents the five rivers of Pakistan. A reminder that, education should be spread all over the country. The eagle is perched on three pillars which denote “Faith, Unity and Discipline” the famous words of Mohammad Ali Jinnah – Father of our Nation. Within the pillars are the letters FPS, abbreviation for Foundation Public School
Aly89 (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
The following block also contains purely biased and contains events highlighted with "We" as per a narration. Please refrain from copying articles from other sources.
==Foundation Public School : A Brief History== In 1981, responding to the private sector demand for a better quality of education compared to what was being imparted at government-run schools, The FPS Founding Team took this great leap into the extraordinary. The first branch of the school was opened in the PECHS area as it occupied a central position in Karachi and was considered a logistically better accessible area. Since its founding, the FPS School System has come to be synonymized with quality education with a human touch; dedicated to the promotion of human as well as religious values, Foundation Public Schools are proud of their approach but not satisfied because satisfaction stems from complacence and we can never accept that we have achieved it all. Thus the aim is to keep striving to achieve the very best, not just in education but in human values as well. We at FPS emphasize both discovery and application with the goal of pushing "knowledge into action" locally, throughout the nation and our global universe. We invite you to join our faculty, staff, alumni, and friends in this important journey. It all began way back in the 70s when an ambitious and determined individual won a Rotary Scholarship to a Master's Programme in Educational Administration and Supervision at the Syracuse University, New York. While in the U.S. Yasmeen met and became friends with another Femme Extraordinaire Sabiha Mohammad who was and continues to be, passionately interested in Early Childhood Education. Sabiha was completing her training in America Montessori Society in the U.S. at the time. This commonality of visions and passions of ‘Learning to Educate', brought Yasmeen and Sabiha further close, close enough to set up FPS; there has never been a moment of looking back, just “Standing on tip-toe to look beyond”. On their return to Karachi , providence had it all chalked out for them; both Yasmeen and Sabiha began work at the same school; Yasmeen as a Vice-Principal and Sabiha, the head of the Infant Section. The thought of managing a school of their own was never placed on the back burner. Opportunity came knocking at their doors when a school building came up for rent. The two enterprising women, along with Sabiha's cousin Raza Minhas who had returned from the U.S. securing an MBA degree for himself, leased the property and the first branch of FPS opened in P.E.C.H.S on October 14, 1981 with 14 students and 5 teachers. Today, Foundation Public School is a well integrated network of 11 branches (8 in Karachi and 3 in Hyderabad , Sindh). It is one of the very few educational conglomerates which read the need and spelt it out so successfully by stepping on a path where most ‘feared to tread'; one of the fewer still who withstood the rising accusation that it had strengthened the hands of those who were auctioning education at exaggerated prices. But the founders of FPS have proved to its detractors that to buy quality, any price is too little.
