Did you know Afghanistan’s education system is one of the weakest in the world? In 1996 a Muslim fundamentalist group, known as the Taliban, ruled the country (Mohammed, 2) which had a huge impact on education. Although both males and females education were effected, less females were attending school during this time. Within the area of Afghanistan, the schools and education have been considered a fundamental part of the past, present and every culture (Fabrizio). Afghanistan’s education system has struggled due to various conflicts as organizations from around the world have contributed to the improvement and quality of education throughout the region that has had a lasting impact on the Afghan people.
There is a majority of reasons that caused the education in Afghanistan to weaken and become one of the poorest worldwide. One of these reasons includes war which brought devastating violence into the country. The war was fought between the Soviets and the Afghan’s in 1978. By this time, the literacy rate for both males and females were very low. For males the literacy rate was eighteen percent and for females it was five percent. Furthermore, the enrollment rates for students attending schools were fifty-four percent for males and only twelve percent for females. From 1978 through 1992, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and as the war continued to progress, two types of education systems emerged. One of the two was established by Mujaheddin groups with Western backing, while the other was provided by communist Soviets. As the two systems formed, the Soviets attempted to use their education system to force social changes on the rural Afghans. The Soviets style of social changes contradicted the Afghan’s religious and social valu...
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... be at eleven million people. Schools lack the proper facilities and the number of qualified teachers are still low (Qazi). Today, Afghanistan is recovering from the impact of twenty-five years of instability that destroyed the meager education infrastructure that existed prior to 1979 and the war that followed (Mohammed, 2).
Due to various conflicts within Afghanistan, the education system has struggled as organizations from all over the world have contributed to the improvements that are leaving a lasting impact on Afghan people. Furthermore, Afghanistan’s constitution, which was adopted in January 2004, states that education is the right of all citizens, both men and women, and up to a certain level, it is free of charge (Qazi). As Afghanistan has long had one of the poorest education records in the world, it is continuing to progress toward success.
In Afghanistan, education is not easily attainable especially as a woman. “For girls in much of the country, education remains a dream no more attainable now than it was under the Taliban. If women are educated, that means their children will be too. If the people of the world want to solve the hard problems in Afghanistan--kidnapping, beheadings, crime and even al-Qaeda--they should invest in education”(Baker).This quote explains the struggles that young afghanistan children have to go through by not getting the opportunities that American children get every day. Even after Afghanistan was under the Taliban, it was still rare for children to attend school which is a horrible reality. Education is explained as one Afghanistan's worst problems of this time. Future generations are in trouble if this problem is not fixed. The tragedy that these children are facing needs to evolve towards a better system. Afghanistan’s current educational structure is unacceptable to the growth of children. “It's hard to overstate the amount of work to be done. The literacy rate in the country has dropped below 40 percent for men, and it is believed to be as low as 4 percent for women” (Whitelaw). Though there is clearly a lot of work to be done in the education systems, it is crucial to the well-being of many children that the systems improve to inspire kids that education along with hard work and dedication is essential to future success. This is only one
The women of Afghanistan have been enduring unfathomable suffering since the Taliban, a religious faction, seized control of the country in 1996. (NOTE TO STUDENT: my teacher gave me a B+ and said I would have had an A if I had had more detail on the Taliban's reasons for these laws) Since 1996 Afghan women have been living fear for their safety and lives. A myriad of discriminating laws has been placed on Afghan women. The punishments for violating these laws are unimaginably inhuman.
The Taliban, a forceful political association against women’s rights, ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 (Hayes, Brunner, and Rowen). Predominantly, they believe in the religion of Islam, as do most Afghans, and that males are the dominant gender (Hayes, Brunner, and Rowen). They controlled Afghanistan under their “version” of the Islamic laws which many others did not agree with (Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls). The Taliban is composed of Afghan men of various ages who did not grow up in Afghanistan, therefore know little about their country’s culture (Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls). The leader of the Taliban from 1994 to 2001 was Mohammed Omar, a religious leader that, over time, gained more and more followers (Bellamy). Eventually he ousted the Afghanistan government and gained control of the country (Bellamy). The Taliban only ruled for five years, but what they did has left a scarring mark on the country of Afghanistan.
From the 1950’s until around 1985 the Soviet Union had Afghanistan under its control. This Soviet involvement in Afghanistan caused the ideologies of communism to spread into the Afghanistan culture. One of the communistic ideas that were assimilated into was the thought that every person is equal. This idea made life a lot easier for the women of Afghanistan. One of the freedoms they were given under Soviet control was the allowance of woman being educated, “The government had sponsored literacy classes for all women. Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now… women who were studying law, medicine, engineering” (135) Hosseini expresses this through the character Laila. Laila’s father, Babi, was a professor and strongly urged the necessity for Laila to get an education. He was so dedicated that he would help out Laila with her homework every night. Hosseini expressed this when Laila claimed “Babi thought that the one thing that communists had done right- or at least intended to- ironically, was in the filed of education… More specifically the education of women.” (135). To Babi there was nothing more impertinent than the education of woman in Afghanistan. He knew that when half the population is illiterate the country cannot properly aspire to new and better things. Along with the new right to learn, women’s requirement to cover their skin was relaxed all throughout Afghanistan. ...
Afghanistan since its beginning has been a place of conflict, despair, and at times lost hope. It has been taken advantage of and lost its sense of identity, which has had a direct effect on its people, and there own sense of what justice truly is.
Greg Mortenson is a truly influential person. He has built over 120 schools in central Asia. Mortenson believes that the real long term answer to terrorism “lies in education rather than fighting” (402). He has won multiple Pakistani humanitarian awards and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize two years in a row (Mortenson and Relin, 127). Mortenson built his first school in 1994 in a Pakistani village called Korphe. Korphe is situated at the base of K2, the world’s second highest mountain. Mortenson stumbled upon this tiny village after a failed attempt to climb the peak in honor of his late sister Christa. (Mortenson and Relin, 136). Since building the school in Korphe, Mortenson has built multiple schools around Pakistan and Afghanistan. His focus is on educating girls about the world around them. By building schools in third world countries, Greg Mortenson is impeding terrorism.
The invasion of the Soviet Union to Afghanistan had left millions of Afghans starved to death. During the invasion, many were destroyed such as homes and irrigation systems, leaving the country in devastation. Afghan civilians were impacted by the war as a result of losing their homes and becoming refugees, being controlled by the Soviet occupations and long-term loss of culture, identity and home.
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They are regarded as outsiders as opposed to everyone else. They currently make up around half of the population of Afghanistan’s capitol, Kabul. Hazaras have turned into leaders in the new developing country, although their people have endured centuries of oppression and tyranny by the refusal of their basic rights. Education is exceptionally essential, this has recently become evident within the Afghan community. Hazara literacy test scores and rates have turned out to be higher than the country’s general results, virtually all Hazara children go to school and the
Kabul has many unemployed individuals that live in poverty, most are refugees of wars. Afghanistan is known to be one of the poorest countries with forty million residents who are living below the poverty line. However, after the US invasion, the number of street children has decreased and they started going to school fulltime. Based on The Education Ministry’s data, seven million children were registere...
Under the current conditions women could redefine their roles in the family and community in ways that improve both their and the nation’s lives.” (Ghosh, 1) Women are becoming more liberated than before. They can maintain their lives without the support of men. Due to Habibullah’s wife Asma, Habibullah opened school for girls but the priests were very upset because of religion and traditions. According to Moghadam, under the Taliban regime women rights were restricted. Afghan women rights have been constrained by the patriarchal society and by the existence of the weak central state. For more women to take a part in politics, they need to attain education. “Protection of Women’s Rights (Anjoman-i Hemayat-I Neswan) was established to help women fight domestic injustice and take a role in public life.” (Moghadam, 21) Men in Afghanistan look down upon many women upon because they perceive women as being housewives. Islamist say that women are not supposed to take a part in making decisions. Household rules restrict women from traveling and compulsory veiling has to be done. In order, for Afghan women to be modernized they need to be allowed a place in the government. According to Moghadam, Valentine M Afghanistan and Iran both have conflicts when it comes freedom for women. The social structure of Iran is more modern middle class and Afghanistan has more of a tribal social structure. Iran has had women modernizing around the government but Afghan women are not permitted to be modernized around
85% of women have no formal education and are illiterate. Women in Afghanistan are not allowed to have an Education. 65% of Men have an education in Afghanistan. Men are allowed to have an education.
For decades Afghanistan has been a reservoir for war. From the collapse of the communist government, to the implementation of the Taliban’s extremist views, the country has been ridden with civil war resulting in over 26,000 civilians killed at the expense of the interminable violence. The people of Afghanistan see no end to the barbaric measures that have stripped them of their liberty. While corruption ridden the country’s leaders, the Taliban displays the public slaughter of civilians in order to establish obedience.
In 1996 the Taliban took over Afghanistan and immediately imposed their fundamentalist ideals on the citizens. They effectively did this by oppressive tactics maintaining control on their people. The Taliban, lead by spiritual leader Mohammed Omar, has used many different ways to oppress the nation of Afghanistan. One way they did was was by destroying ancient art structures that have became a huge part of their culture. These acts had a great effect on the people in Afghanistan stripped them of a very sacred symbol in their eyes. The Taliban oppression has left citizens scared and powerless.
Recently Afghanistan has grown significantly in terms of its ability to care for itself. A national army and a developing police force are becomi...