The Importance Of Education For Men And Women

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Importance of education for men and women is essential for bright future. It plays a vital role in the development of a society. Education is an empowering process that allows and guides an individual to develop their passions and orientation towards wisdom for timely action. It is a process of giving and receiving instruction and knowledge in an education system such as schools, universities, college etc. It cannot only get one self self-cultivated but helps to be independent in life. Even though there are so many benefits of getting educated there are some society and culture that discriminated between people getting educated. Some developing countries such as Pakistan and India discriminate between genders to get educated and …show more content…
When Ghulamullah says, “I am representing good Muslim and we all think that your girl’s school is haram and a blasphemy. You should close it. Girls should not be in school” (Yousafzai 94), indicates how society criticizes people who support girl education. It also shows that even the authority doesn 't support the girl’s right. As Mullah Ghulamullah represents two organization who does not allow girls to get educated and threatened Yousafzai’s father by saying that he is going against Islam by opening a girl’s school and even letting her daughter study. Furthermore, the Ghulamullah says to shut the school so to follow the social norms and becomes a true believer of his religion. Further Yousafzai mentions, “Girl is so scared she should be in purdah, and so privet that there is no lady’s name in Quran, as God doesn’t want her to be named” (Yousafzai, 94), shows the religious belief of the society and a girl’s appearance in the society. Religion is just a weapon used by the society to scare the people in the name of god to follow the social norms. According to Yousafzai’s society, they believe girls are not suppose to attend school, as they are precious and should be covered form head to toe. Society, which does not allow girls to get educated, uses religion as a weapon to threaten the people who allow girls to get …show more content…
Though these days, people who do not get educated think that education is a privilege, but from now, education should be made as a basic right for everyone. When Yousafzai says, “Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human”(Yousafzai,162) she argues that an education for any more regardless of their gender should be a basic right and education cant be distributed among culture. Education is a way of knowledge an knowledge is nether western or eastern. Malala does not seem doubtful of dominant cultural she wants to know them and maybe challenge them not from a point of exclusion but from inclusion. An education from teachers in schools should expose us to narratives we need not just accept but also oppose, not from a sense of inferiority but from a sense of equality. Education just from computer will never be the equal of an education from a great schoolteacher telling us great stories with which students can then

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