A Response to Those Who Describe Teaching in Schools as Parrot-like Repetition
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Question:
A brother of noble status published an article in the newspaper al-Jazirah recently, dated one year ago, in which you responded to those who said that teaching in our schools is parrot-like repetition. Is this response yours, O honorable one?
Answer:
The one who caused it was me, and the one who drank it was me. A response to those who say that teaching, or education through teaching, is parrot-like repetition. We have gained nothing from it but sourness; we have gained nothing from it but sourness. I objected to it because, without the tape of the girls, in response to the ideas of our enemies, the disbelievers, they want to change our curricula and replace them with other curricula that please our enemies. We do not accept this, and we never accept that our livelihoods, which are based on the Book and the Sunnah and on the revealed knowledge, be changed. We do not allow anyone to interfere in them or look into them except the people of knowledge. No one else looks into them. It has happened that some of Allah’s students look into our curricula and change them and test them. The curricula are under the supervision of the people of knowledge; they are the ones who first established and decided them. If there are defects or matters, they are presented to the people of knowledge.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
A brother of noble status published an article in the newspaper al-Jazirah recently, dated one year ago, in which you responded to those who said that teaching in our schools is parrot-like repetition. Is this response yours, O honorable one?
Answer:
The one who caused it was me, and the one who drank it was me. A response to those who say that teaching, or education through teaching, is parrot-like repetition. We have gained nothing from it but sourness; we have gained nothing from it but sourness. I objected to it because, without the tape of the girls, in response to the ideas of our enemies, the disbelievers, they want to change our curricula and replace them with other curricula that please our enemies. We do not accept this, and we never accept that our livelihoods, which are based on the Book and the Sunnah and on the revealed knowledge, be changed. We do not allow anyone to interfere in them or look into them except the people of knowledge. No one else looks into them. It has happened that some of Allah’s students look into our curricula and change them and test them. The curricula are under the supervision of the people of knowledge; they are the ones who first established and decided them. If there are defects or matters, they are presented to the people of knowledge.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-22 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (39:16)
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