Author: Dr. Noor Mohammad Noornia
The movement towards becoming literate and becoming enlightened is a long process, and the effort to strengthen it and remove obstacles from its path should be continuous. Unfortunately, the conditions of our country show the opposite. There have always been interruptions in the leap towards education; from political changes to social limitations and cultural factors have contributed to these educational disruptions.
In the last fifty years, Afghanistan has witnessed numerous political changes, each of which has actually resulted in the disruption of the education system. The opportunities that have been created, the desirable efforts that should have been made, have not been taken, and the gaps have weakened the educational system.
Unfortunately, education has not become an issue in Afghanistan, and a correct idea of its needs assessment has not emerged in the eyes of Afghanistani people. After the first period of the Taliban Group, literacy schools were held in places and houses; but they had taken the form of a tale house. During Karzai’s era, we, the students of that period and the following period, have faced serious obstacles. In the later period of the government, everything was ridiculed to such a degree that some people shamelessly raised their sleeves to deceive the people and pocketed whatever they could get from outside and inside, and a number of others who were outside these games; They were discouraged in various fields. The current halt is the result of those downward movements.
Social and cultural restrictions have inflicted the biggest blow on the body of education in the country. Families, which are smaller examples of societies; either they were negligent in educating their children or they disagreed with their children. Most of the victims of this violence have been women (although the education of men has its own problems).
Disgusting social customs that have found a new life these days in the form of religious teachings; there was/is an obstacle outside the family against education. In different periods, the pulpit owners have taken the will of the people and prevented literacy. Most educated young people were forced to go away from their families in big cities and acquire knowledge. Men and women who were from the middle class, if they did not personally try to avoid the small local circle, they would remain the same color of the congregation.
Among the country’s universities, which were viewed with the value-oriented view of scientific and rational institutions, many fundamentalism and petrified groups had nested. Censorship started from the classroom to higher levels. Male and female students were involved in censorship. They should have control over the words of their classmates, professors and the decisions of the college and university.
These groups entered into the houses of educated people by using the shortsighted notions of numbers and confused more. Another, the one who is thought does not help the current society and was considered an obstacle to intellectual and human movements; He wore a suit and tie. In this case, an optimistic layer was drawn on the face of obstacles, which caused the short stature of academics.
Of this category, unfortunately, there were/are too many in the country. University and school people who have a problem with the official clothes of those institutions; but he has pressured himself to wear that garment so that he can move forward in other areas according to his intentions. Big programs called “Self-knowledge”, “Mawlana study”, “Epistemology” etc. These programs held to drag the youth back to the position of backwardness and make the situation such that you can no longer move your lips and talk to someone.
Who are these people, except the people of Afghanistan? Moreover, until the people themselves do not reach this rationality to ask themselves: Why should education be prevented (especially for women)? The situation remains the same. Status refers to the attitude towards literacy among our compatriots. Otherwise, there is no doubt that the Taliban group will open girls’ schools today or tomorrow during a deal; but the matter does not end here. Another generation will come and they themselves will be an obstacle to enlightenment.
