A Response to Those Who Describe Education as Mere Dictation
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Question:
My honorable brother, an article was published about you in these days in the newspaper Al-Jazirah, dated [date], in which you responded to those who said that dictation in our schools is like a parrot. Is this response yours?
Answer:
Yes. It is what I wished for, and it is what I published. It is a response to what is said about dictation, that education through dictation is a dictation against anger. We found in it nothing but acidity, nothing but acidity. I was angry at it because they want the tape of the girls, responding to what our enemies from among the disbelievers have chosen. They want to change our curricula and replace them with the curricula of others to 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 knowledge, be changed. We do not allow anyone to interfere in them, nor to look into them except the people of knowledge. No one else looks into them. We have not found among the students of Allah anyone who looks into our curricula and changes them and alters them. The curricula are under the gaze of the people of knowledge. They are the ones who first established them and decided on them. If there are observations or matters, they are presented to the people of knowledge.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
My honorable brother, an article was published about you in these days in the newspaper Al-Jazirah, dated [date], in which you responded to those who said that dictation in our schools is like a parrot. Is this response yours?
Answer:
Yes. It is what I wished for, and it is what I published. It is a response to what is said about dictation, that education through dictation is a dictation against anger. We found in it nothing but acidity, nothing but acidity. I was angry at it because they want the tape of the girls, responding to what our enemies from among the disbelievers have chosen. They want to change our curricula and replace them with the curricula of others to 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 knowledge, be changed. We do not allow anyone to interfere in them, nor to look into them except the people of knowledge. No one else looks into them. We have not found among the students of Allah anyone who looks into our curricula and changes them and alters them. The curricula are under the gaze of the people of knowledge. They are the ones who first established them and decided on them. If there are observations or matters, they are presented to the people of knowledge.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 22 — archive.org (39:16)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.