Today I would like to talk about
education. Most of us think that education is something to do with the process
of acquiring living skills. The acquiring process is therefore intended for the
personal development of an individual.
When
we talk about education we cannot avoid of talking the process. The process of
how people live in this world, interact with their environment, including the
parents, other family members, neighbours, society, or in a bigger perspectives
the country where they live. It shows that every element in this world
contribute to the process of learning either directly or indirectly,
intentionally or unintentionally.
Parents
for instance, have been considered as a major player for educating new
generation. Through them, the individuals learn a lot of what so called living
skills. This is the first chance for the individual to learn many things. As
such, parents need to provide a 'high quality' example by sharing experiences,
information, skills, attitude, personality and many more – learn through example
just like Prophet Muhammad SAW . Without this the transferring process cannot
be materialised. Even in Islam it is clearly stated the parents function in
educating their children - it becomes compulsory, no excuses!!
As
parents, it is very crucial to see our function as an 'information
contributor'. In order to share a high quality and sufficient information with
our children we really need to understand the role itself as well as the skills
needed to functioning. Knowledge without skills may not be useful. But more to
that, skills without understanding the importance of sharing and how that
should be done is even worse. In other words, without competency and skills of
sharing the knowledge and information, the transferring process will be
problematic.
I
will continue the discussion on the skills required by parents in our next
meeting. Until then, reviewing our capability and willingness is crucially
required form time to time.
Thank
you very much.
