In this country, although almost every child attends public school, it is customary that parents still sent their children to tuition centre as an additional effort to get their children attains good result in exams thus providing them better chances to be admitted into better schools or local universities. However, in my point of view, this exam orientated mindset does not have the ability to produce citizens with plenty of resources and skills to earn their living. As a result, typical people that live in boxes are created throughout the country's 50 years history of independence. But nobody is to be blamed because this is how our fathers and forefathers had been educated since the British came 300 years ago. In Malaysia, our education system still follow the aging British system. Although after time and time of alteration by our ministry of education, a lot of criticisms still risen by both parents and educators because the constant changes and heavier load for the teachers and students. Students in school does not enjoy learning anymore compare to the time of discovering their early childhood. Educational books is read only because they are told to read it, not driven by intrigue, not even by the interest of the mind. But maybe it is not that they do not love knowledge, it is only not the right kind of knowledge that had been taught by Rasullullah SAW or maybe not the kind of knowledge that Allah wants this kids to have. An open eye might be able to pinpoint elements of Materialism, Darwinism, Secularism and Capitalism in our current educational curricular. For example, the first sentence in Form 1 Science textbook read as follow: “Science is a study of natural phenomena” which is clearly a Darwin's quote. Furthermore, the disentanglement of religious teaching from civil affairs and public teaching is the way of Secularist.
However, because there has never been found or created a better education system to cater for our diversified ethnicity and religions in this country, this issue is still hanging in the air. Recently, during my research, I had come across through a website, http://www.kinzaacademy.com/, whose among its advisory board are John Taylor Gatto and Syeikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson. Gatto is an expert in US education system and is the author of “Dumbing Us Down”, a book that I've been looking around but without any success. While Syeikh Hamza is a renounce scholar that lots of his lectures is in my hard drive. This academy provides homeschooling curriculum in US and I wish I can look at the contents of all the seven arts of liberal education that the academy provides as well.
A very good educational system must completes the requirement for both this life and the afterlife and also will not only available to an engineer's siblings but also to a rubber tapper's son.
I pray to Allah for the dimensional luxury of space and time.
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