Ghana: Educating the Moslem Child
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
EDITORIAL
2 October 2008
Posted to the web 3 October 2008
President John Agyekum Kufuor, on Tuesday, used the occasion of the celebration of the Eid-ul-Fitr, at the Independence Square in Accra, to remind Ghanaian Moslems about the importance of sending their children to school. We could not agree with him the more, when he added that the greatest future, that parents could bequeath their children, was education.
The Chronicle believes that the type of education being referred to by the President was the Western type of education, which provides both religious as well as scientific knowledge, to fully equip children for all aspects of their life for the future.
It is to offer training that would equip people with the knowledge and skills to take up respectable positions, and positively contribute to national development, and most importantly, make its graduates ripe for jobs all over the world.
Unfortunately, the Moslem type of education given to children is the religious and Quranic based one, popularly referred to as the 'Makaranta'. This creates graduates who cannot function in a secular and professional work ethics environment. As a result, the number of Moslems in decision-making positions, in political and the economic hierarchy of the country, are few.
The Prophet of Islam commanded knowledge upon all Muslims, and urged them to seek for it as far as they could reach, and also to search for it at all times. This knowledge, we believe, should be wide and encompassing, and not narrowed only to the 'Makaranta' type of education.
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The reality is that the country is a secular one, which practices secular education, and the 'Makaranta' should only serve as a complement to make the child's training whole.
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