The time has come

 No one can deny the significance and value of philosophy as it relies on critical and creative thinking. A nation without philosophical thinking remains blind to creativity and hence will grow without critical tools to evaluate its own culture and history. In order to grasp a full realisation of reality of human existence and progress we need to give priority to philosophical thinking in our educational system. This could be accomplished by a rigour planning supervised thoroughly by experts in the area of education and philosophy for our children in Kurdistan. This ambitious and necessary plan is unfortunately has not been realised yet. It does not matter how many reasons are there for the negligence of this plan but it is important to acknowledge that its execution is overdue.

 The time has come to give a serious thought to this matter. We need to kindle the mind of our children with philosophy in order to make them creative and develop analytic as well as critical skills in them. Today, this serious beginning in the educational life for our children is inaugurated by Kareem Mustafa who has initiated this plan to teach philosophy to our children. I like to congratulate him and wish him success. I also understand that this task cannot be accomplished by few individuals. It requires support from all intellectuals, educationists and the political authority in Kurdistan to put this plan into practice and speed up its implication.

The University of Melbourne

  Dr Muhammad Kamal
Senior Lecturer
Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia

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