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Then in 1911, formal education began with the opening of Al-Mubarakiya School, and this period witnessed continued developments including the establishment of the Maarif (education) council, followed by the religious institution in 1943, the industrial college in 1954, opening of the teachers’ institute in the 1962/1963 academic year and Kuwait University in 1966. The history of the teachers’ institute in Kuwait is linked with the questions we mentioned above. The institute was not able to create strong foundations, although there were sincere people who graduated from it.
Joining the teachers’ institute was a way for young people to quickly start receiving a salary, or the required GPA encouraged those who did not have other opportunities. Here began the encroachment on education, as during that period private schools came into existence and expanded at the expense of government education, which began to weaken. Then we ended with the catastrophe of the spread of the foreign school culture, which the media, benefiters and conspiring powers succeeded in making it linked in the citizen’s mind with better status and prestigious education, which allowed for creating generations of students who are not good at reading in Arabic and not interested in the nation’s culture.
All they care about is speaking in a foreign language. The forces succeeded through education to pull students out from their culture. They succeeded in weakening public education and creating a parallel education system to Westernize our children and make money, which encouraged more private schools and institutions to open. Today, we wish we were in 1887, as the mullahs and mutawas taught our children the values of our culture, even if limited in science, which is better than teaching superficial knowledge in a foreign language, as it does not add to our culture anything as much as it destroys the remnants of what we are proud of.
Mothers smile when they speak to their children in a language other than theirs, and some superficial youth get grades they do not deserve in exchange for money and gifts. Some of those schools have become hatcheries for qualified losers! Yes, this is something intended, either for financial gain or for founding a valueless generation, just bodies and brains that move without being a help for their nation, that is if they are not against it.
We have said previously on several occasions that private schools’ curricula have historical and cultural mistakes, and there is a lack of interest in the Arabic language and the nation’s culture in many of them. The responsibility of the education ministry and the department responsible for private education is to develop means of supervision and be keen on inspecting the curricula.
All this has been repeatedly reminded, and many officials tried to follow up, but there are those among us who have other goals, and this is something unwanted. Whoever wants to reform education must believe that education is life, and equally an important matter.