A Response to Those Who Described Teaching in Schools as Parrot-Like

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: An article was published about you, Honorable Shaykh, in these days in the newspaper al-Jazirah, dated [date], in which you respond to those who said that teaching in our schools is parrot-like. Is this response from you?

Answer:
Yes, this is a response that I wrote and I published it in response to those who say that teaching, that education through rote learning, is rote learning from which we have harvested nothing but bitter gourd, from which we have harvested nothing but bitter gourd. So I responded to them because they want to change the curricula 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 do not accept, absolutely not, that our curricula, which are based on the Book and the Sunnah and on beneficial knowledge, be changed. We do not allow anyone to interfere in them, and no one looks into them except the scholars of knowledge. It is not for any random person, any student of the West, to look into our curricula and change them and replace the curricula under the gaze of the scholars of knowledge who first established them and decided on them. If there are observations or matters, they are presented to the scholars of knowledge. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you