Re: Madrassa Graduates in Pakistan
Lusi they are literate. A milestone when you look at the literacy rate in Pakistan. And most of them learn other skills to maintain life. Lets just look at it honestly, wide majority of madrassa students are studying on fundings given to madrassas. They are doing all they can to educate themselves.
Besides i often feel if an engineer is completely uneducated in religious matters its a norm yet if a maulvi is uneducated in terms of a solid career he's an incompetent fool.
an issue also is who is teaching the engineer at his engineering school. the credentials of the professor, the quality of the curriculum etc. a
bad university with sub par curriculum and incompetent professors will turn out engineers who will build bridges that will fall apart.
similarly, who is teaching the kids at the madrassa. what is teh curriculum, and what is the qualification of the teachers. a sub par curiculum taught by a poorly trained teacher will turn out bad graduates.
also basic islamiyat is taught in school curriculums so by the time someone gets to a university they have had 12 years of religious education as well. so if you look it at about an hour a day for academic year for 12 years.
also as far as madrissa goes, if we are talking about the higher education madrissas then thatis one comparison. but to compare a 5 year madrissa to a university is not right.
as far as poor preparation goes, ppl who quit peela schools after fifth grade are very ill prepared for practical life and society also.
The number of years of education, plus what one is being taught is important, and when we look at it from that perspective whether it is 5 years of education in a govt school or five years of education in a madrissa, its equally bad.
so not enough educationa nd training is one issue, on the other hand the bigger issue is the wrong education one that teaches hatred, madrissas that are affiliated with terrorist groups like sipah e sahaba and all, we have a whole diff problem.
Madrissas serve a huge need in the country, because without them there would be a large chunk of population that would just go without any formal education at all, and the overwhelming majority of them are good institutions. I may have mentioned Jamia hamadia in shah faisal colony karachi where I have actually gone in to talk to students about what other countries are like etc.
The sad part is that intelligence agencies preyed upon the poorest segments of population, and in cahoots with our 'religious leaders' used some madrissas are factories for free fighters..go fight in
I almost want to rewrite bruce springsteen's born in the usa to born in pakistan, because we failed these people as a nation. we allowed our govt to take funding from saudis and give the green light to extremists to use madrissas are factories to brainwash kids who have nothing going for them.
shame on us.