So today how should education be? In the Muslim world and the western world. I think the first thing which needs re-institutionalization is individualized education. Every human being is different; education should take this into account. The university is not a factory. Even when we say mass education human beings is not a mass. They are not ….. or not a boot. Every human being is different and the education system must take this into account. In the non-western world, universities should not make their goal simply transmitting and marketing ideas produced in the west. They should teach how to think and how to produce ideas. Instead of serving as institutions of sustainable intellectual dependency they should serve and function as institutions …show more content…
He answered, because I stand on the shoulders of the giants. Today if we, non-western students, need to appreciate the heritage or legacy of previous generations and stand on their shoulders. Rather than neglecting and rejecting them. But in the Muslim world both the selefi current and the modernist current tell us that there was a golden age in the beginning of Islamic history during the time of the Prophet Mohammed and his companions. After that, long dark ages until the period of nahda. It is like more than one thousand years long dark ages. They say nothing precious was produced during this period. So forget it. This is a wrong approach. We need to accept the continuity of Islamic civilization that the chain of isnad continued until today without any break. There may be some crisis, some periods of crisis, but we accept continuity. This is what differentiates me from those selefis and modernist. I believe in the continuity of Islamic civilization, Islamic knowledge, tradition and heritage and I see my purpose is to build on this heritage. This is how originality is produced. Some academics and young student think that the only way to produce an original idea is to curse the past and reject the past. This is not a right strategy. The right strategy is to put yourself before the flow that people before you. …….. (53.21) now you are doing something new to take it further. So, this is the way to produce original