Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (824) | One of the disadvantages of modern education
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Regarding the shortcomings of modern education.
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There are many flaws in modern educational systems.
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We shall mention some of them and their detrimental effects.
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First, placing the intelligent, gifted student alongside the dull, slow-witted student.
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Whereas traditional Islamic education, in the past,
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allowed individual talents to flourish and advance to higher study circles,
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according to their level of achievement, regardless of their age.
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The West has attempted to overcome this negative aspect,
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by introducing a system to promote gifted students to a higher level.
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Second, modern education seeks to abolish rote memorization, highlighting its perceived faults.
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They claim that it restricts the faculty of creativity and critical thinking.
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While we may agree on some of the drawbacks resulting from limiting education to memorization,
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and neglecting the aspect of critical thinking,
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this does not mean, under any circumstances, the abolition of memorization itself.
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Rather, we should only eliminate the flaws that may accompany an over-reliance on it,
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and the neglect of the other aspect.
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Third:
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Modern education adopts the principle of teaching from the whole to the part.
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They base this on the idea that the eye perceives an image in its entirety first,
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and then begins to recognize its details.
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Therefore, they begin teaching language through whole sentences,
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then move from there to the word, and finally to the letter.
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They have forgotten that there is a vast difference between an image and a language.
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An image is a visual object perceived by the sense of sight,
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which perceives the whole before the parts.
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Whereas language relies on hearing, which perceives sound,
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the origin of which is the part of a composite thing.
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For this reason, if someone were to hear speech in a language they know nothing about,
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they would neither understand what is heard nor perceive it.
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But if they begin to learn the letters of the language and combine them with one another,
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they become able to recognize what they hear, bit by bit,
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until they eventually grasp the meanings and understand the language and its implications.
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Language instruction in Islamic civilization,
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relies on the letter, then the word, then the sentence.
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In fact, it teaches the child the letter with its various vowel marks first,
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so the child excels in understanding their language through the details of its letters and their vocalizations.
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Look at those who study the Baghdadi Primer or the Noorani Primer,
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how they surpass others and learn the language with incredible speed.