Emerging young nations are venturing into the world of progress through a system of modern education, which sometimes forces us to leave our old values and traditions. This usually happens when we are in search of quick progress in a competitive world of cutthroat fights.
Nations, especially in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, face this challenge of a system without keeping the cultural values intact. It is a rat race of stiff competition and we all can easily forget to keep our culture and traditions along our quest for mere material progress.
Countries like India and in some Middle Eastern countries should stress on the education of their population, on keeping their values and traditions intact to cope with modern challenges and problems peculiar to the modern younger generations. Orderly progress of human peace has become a hard nut to crack. It requires a human outlook to view the burning problems with a balanced mind.
For the above reasons, we have to reconstruct our educational system aiming to make our future generations ready to face any challenge with firm determination. A modern education is highly necessary for our progress. However, progress alone is not sufficient enough to keep the world peaceful, which is more important than any other point. A balanced system of education is the need of the hour for any developing country in Asia and the Middle East.
Industrially developed countries like the UAE should take care in bringing in their own culture and traditions to go well with their educational systems. If we ignore human values we are likely to become thoroughly materialistic, which will not stand us in good stead in the international field.
Countries like India should take the lead in this crucial matter and leave the world from a situation that produces only human robots instead of world citizens with love and compassion for fellow human beings. Let’s try to make the skies bluer and the hearts happier.
— The reader is an Indian writer based in Kochi, India.
