The education system needs a revamp

The education system needs a revamp. Almost everybody knows that. So the question is why doesn't anybody do something about it? Students do not gain anything from their years in school. It is like 10 precious years of school thrown away in hope that one day the child will learn something. In the meanwhile there are businesses that benefit from this neglect. Private tuition classes are the obvious culprits who actually help children pass. Work that should have been done by the schools.
When will the stake holders be responsible to dictate what should be in the curriculum rather than politicians and bureaucrates who have their own agenda. Why should every state have a say in the syllabus rather than people who it is supposed to help. The syllabus should be decided by industry people who need young talent to be competent on the global level. The syllabus should be decided by parents who would like to have a say in what their child should be learning. And of course most important the syllabus should be decided by the students who have to study and go on to take up a career in their chosen field.
Ask the children? What do they know. Yet the decision to allow children to the next class was supposed to be a child friendly decision. Gary good that did. Children need to learn some basics while they are growing up. These basics should be taught to them in the first few years of school. Basic math, languages, science that would help them in life. All other agendas should be put aside. Up till a certain age the basics should be made strong and then the studies that will help in future career should click in. Exams should then be easy to give. Whenever the student wants according to his pace.
The authorities are so rushed to make children skilled labour that they are not concerned about the mental and physical health of students. What we need is a young person who had decision making abilities and who is sure footed about his choices and not whimpering puppies who take up whatever is offered or get waylaid by the side.

Muslims must really start improving themselves

In a time when Muslims find themselves boxed in from all sides because certain powers believe subjugating a set of people is a means to an end. Laggards who are easily influenced by leaders they trust for no reason other than they are from their own religion or community join in the subjugation and start rationalising wrong doings by quoting references and history books that exist nowhere but in the minds of those leaders who are after their own agenda. It is easy to see this phenomenon in history during the crusades, inquisitions, Holocaust, pre emptive strikes by America, trump's shenanigans and the growing intolerance in America and the Sangh parivar's atrocities in India against Muslims Christians and backward classes.
Most Muslims realise this and feel helpless. You see your brother's and sisters being killed in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Burma, Kashmir and various other places and hope that people will realise that Islam is a very good religion after all. Maybe this Islamophobia is good and interest in Islam will increase. However, what most of us don't realise is that most of the problems maybe because of us. Maybe our very nature of being sad at the news of some calamity falling on our brothers and us getting sad for sometime but going back to work as if nothing had happened is to blame.
Yes for all is worth Islamophobia has increased interest of people who wouldn't have bothered to look up Islam. That is god's way of damage control. Damage that we have done. And we still are not stepping up to do or jobs.
Dawah or invitation is one of our duties as a Muslim. But we keep away from it citing friendship and career. It may affect our friendship or relationship at work. Why are we not looking for other ways to do or job. Is it that we just want to shed crocodile tears for our brothers and sisters but when the time comes to take some concrete action we are just strangers to them.
Most of the newly interested people are turning to the internet for information. What they are getting is dubious sites that are spreading false information about Islam. No wonder they will feel that the people responsible for wrongdoings against Muslims are somehow justified. Go to quora and see the number of questions about Islam and the answers. People having the wrong agenda give false information sometimes even disguised as Muslims or Muslims who have learnt that Islam is wrong.
This is a God given opportunity to do dawah even without all to look the terrifying excuses that you had about broken friendships and lost jobs. But first you need to learn what Islam is yourself. It has been a long time you have been dating the Shahadah without knowing about the religion you profess to believe. Pick up that book called the Quran you know to be the message of God and find out what that message is. Then get on the net and do the job you are supposed to do as part of Muhammad's ummah.
Clarify doubts, tell the truth about false accusations. Give some time everyday or at least every week. Recruit more brothers to do the job.
And while you are at it start doing one more thing if you are not doing it already. Start greeting everyone. Give salaam to fellow Muslims and other preferred greetings to all you know. Don't be stingy in this regard. Everybody should be greeted in such a way that if for any reason you pass people by in a hurry they should stop you too ask if everything's ok since your did not greet them.
Peace!