New graduates, especially high school graduates, may be the same for university graduates, perhaps to a lesser extent, who are not only experiencing a crisis in Arabic, writing and reading, but also have many problems.
Most of them, and avoided the word "all" so as not to make the mistake of generalization only, they have a clear lack of public information, and in history, especially the history of our Arab region, and do not have much information about the past and the present, and geopolitics as well, and they are completely absent from what is happening in many From the world!
Is that important, or is it just unnecessary information that can be searched on «Google» ?! This is what many will disagree with, but it is truly regrettable that we have a whole generation with only good English, and little technical information, most of which focus on mobile applications and applications, and electronic games.
I am not pessimistic, nor exaggerated, and any of you can be sure of his son or the son of his neighbor or his little brother, or whatever, let us test their knowledge about the present or the past, and choose what you like geographical questions or general information or even words from the Arabic language, the result will certainly be Absolutely shocking!
In one of the public high school interviews for scholarship by a well-known government body, the members of the committee were surprised that all those interviewed without exception could not know the neighboring countries surrounding the UAE, and the Secretariat has one student who could mention only one country, the Sultanate of Oman, when asked about its capital He said: «Salalah I think»!
I will not go into other details for the rest of the general information because it is really shocking, but it is a bitter reality. Unfortunately, in the past years we have focused in our curriculum and education on the English language, we have won a new generation that is superior to the previous generation, but at the same time we have lost Arabic language, and wasted general information and materials Intellectual that builds human personality and nourish his mind and thought!
The Secretariat also, and this is a general observation in most of the interview committees in government agencies, whether for work or scholarship, they assert that the graduates of public schools much better than graduates of private schools, despite the high proportion of students in private schools in certificates, and proficiency in English only is what distinguishes Students in private schools, while outperforming students in public schools in all else, which makes us wonder about the usefulness of hundreds of thousands of dirhams paid by parents annually, and the reason for the high prices of private education is very exaggerated in the UAE, compared to the output of this education is weak and unsatisfactory!
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