The current education system dates back a hundred years or more, and is in desperate need of a ‘reboot’, whilst at the same time it needs to reconnect with teaching methods and principles long since forgotten in the name of progress and modernity. What we have today consists broadly of a set number of pupils, moving from one classroom to another, fed a conveyor belt of unconnected and unrelated facts, using uninspiring books and methods, to then regurgitate these in endless exams, the resulting scores of which are used next to assess intellectual ability and ‘mastery’ of a subject. Competitive, stressful, boring, and soulless, it is tragically emulated by most so-called Muslim faith schools worldwide. Assembly lines of children emerge at the end of it, but have they really been taught to ‘think’ or to ‘act’? Ann El-Moslimany, an experienced teacher who has taught for decades and run her own Islamic school, joins a growing chorus of respected voices both in the East and West, calling for an educational philosophy and approach that is holistic, and which gives full spiritual meaning to all that a child learns.
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