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What We Should Be Teaching Our Children

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Topic: What We Should Be Teaching Our Children

Posted By: Murabit
Subject: What We Should Be Teaching Our Children
Date Posted: 18 May 2006 at 5:54am

What We Should Be Teaching Our Children

By Imam Zaid Shakir

When we talk about Islamic education and our children, the discussion usually revolves around strictly academic issues related to technical aspects of curriculum development, testing standards and methodologies, balancing between secular and religious education, and similar concerns. Sometimes we miss the greater objective of an Islamic education. That objective, in terms of what is necessary for the immediate success of our children in this world, and their ultimate success in the next, is nurturing balanced, wholesome, honest human beings who live lives based on principle and who exemplify good character in their dealings with other people.

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