Education

This is an important and vast topic with many angles worth exploring. Reference materials will be gathered here.Education is powerful because it creates SOCIALIZED KNOWLEDGE -- agreements on what we know about the world. The link between power and knowledge is discussed in several newspaper articles LINKED HERE. 

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1. Education in Pakistan: A Case Study -- by Maulvi Jahangir Mahmood

2. The Mirror & the Lamp: Colonial Educational Reform in 19th Century Punjab -- by Atiyab Sultan. 

3. Our Traditional Educational Systems

4. What is Wrong with our Education System, short article by Khalid Baig, in Al-Balagh

5. Problems with using TV for Education in Islamic Context, article by Khalid Baig, in Al-Balagh

6. The Irrelevance of Education in US System: see also Gatto for a harsher critique

7. US spends five times more on prisoners than on students.

8. Some Information about Budget Cuts for Illiteracy in Pakistan.

9. Dawn Article about how East India Company burned books, and deliberately destroyed the educational system in India.

10. Fass=ElMoctar on providing relevant, culturally sensitive education and its efficacy. 

11. Curricular Reform: Goals for Islamiyat: By Maulvi Iftikhar Zaman

12. Thoughts on Education and Character Building

13. How Pakistan Fails Its Children -- article on failings of educational system in Pakistan

14. Educational Policy in Pakistan. Relevant data and research pointers. 

15. Revolution: Some links on how to create a revolution in education.

16. The Marginalization of Morality in Education: Julie Reuben's book, and links to related materials