Articles on Education of Bangladesh

MASUM BILLAH

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Education imparted only in the classroom may not help the learners to deal with complex problems which appear in the real life. When education takes place both in the classroom and beyond it gives the learners real opportunities to face the challenges of life pragmatically. In American schools and colleges a program named ‘Service Learning’ has been in vogue since the time of Abraham Lincoln in 1862. This service Learning is based on three theories. Firstly, pay back motivation. As the students read in the schools and colleges run by the state or community, they must have some responsibilities towards them. It is an opportunity for the students to give service to the society directly. Secondly it gives philanthropic motivation. Students clean the road, offices, surrounding environment and make the less conscious people aware of political and social responsibilities and they get self-satisfaction through these services. Thirdly, it reflects perfection of knowledge. Only bookish knowledge cannot give perfection to the students until and unless they learn something practically from the known society and surrounding environment. It helps them learn the society and people. Students learn leadership quality and the spirit of leadership quality and team-work is developed among them.

MUZIB MEHDY

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In the last quarter of the 20th century, women involved in development activities began traveling in the rural areas on motorbikes and bicycles for work related purposes. Many people have lauded this development as progress for professional women; on the other side a segment of the same population (both educated and uneducated) have identified this as an indicator of the degeneration of women in terms of morality and character and Madrasah students threatened to prevent this behavior.

The nefarious attack that was made by young Madrasah boys on the sports day for primary students of the public Aaliyah Madrasah of Sylhet, where their rage was expended on the young girls participating in the sports competitions as well as the national flag, must have been an attempt to bring about the alleged morality.⁷

The fact that what the majority people of society deem as progress appears to be moral degeneration to Madrasah people making them take actions to eradicate it must be an outcome of Madrasah education. The values promoted through Madrasah education attempts to retain non-progress in national and social life. Reviewing this example of the participation of the Madrasahs in establishing their so called morality as well as selected incidents of their personal and professional lives that have been published in the newspapers point toward the moral vacuum that exist within them. There is no need to go into controversial subjects; there are no actions that are morally contemptible to all human beings that the Madrasah related people are not deeply involved in – whether that action is murder, rape, sexual assault, embezzlement or cheating at exams.

MASUM BILLAH

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Imparting class and sharing knowledge should be exciting, stimulating and empowering. When a class takes place in a boring atmosphere, the learners cannot absorb it and they feel insecure. So, it is teacher’s creativity which makes a boring class interesting and exciting through his/her specially designed classes. Teachers can start the creative teaching from the crucial phase-warming up or brainstorming. A teacher must remember that in a boring atmosphere the learners don’t show any interest to learn anything new. It is again a teacher’s initiative and effort to make a passive and unmotivated class into a physically activated one. A teacher can do it in various ways.

Pictures usually stimulate students’ imagination and eagerness in learning. A teacher can use relevant pictures in the class to stimulate the learners creating   a story or separated activities  without  any texts.  The emphasis  of this activity  is to activate students’ skill in making  sentences  through the stimulating  pictures. Then from the sentences he/she can   ask students to identify the verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Thus the students will learn sentence construction using their visual learning and learn clearly about different parts of speech which seem to be boring when learnt otherwise.