Imam W. Deen Mohammed -Notes on Education-

Imam W. Deen Mohammed

-Notes on Education-

1.     Education is the greatest tool for advancing the society. But do not think that education is always in academia, or in public school systems, or in the schools established for the people. No, it is lost many times. The main help for the intellect or for the mind of people is lost many times because the world decides education. Do you know the big developers, the big investors in industry, they control government and education? And we only see opposition to them when a bright intellect appears somewhere in the country, or a group of them. Usually, it is a group, because a bright intellect is not going to be happy by himself. He is going to have to find some companions to work with him. So it turns out to be a small group of people who get together and they challenge what is going on. They point at the problem and they expose it or they seek to get it changed. And if they can't get it changed then they expose it; and then we see change for the better in the academic world or in the political, governmental world. We see change for the better. But it isn't going to happen without an interruption. Somebody who is right has to be attentive to what is good for the human public and what is bad for the human public. (Imam W. Deen Mohammed Ramadan Session 2006)

2.     Public education, education used to be under the church or under religious orders, it was made public with the protestant movement and a great change came in the thinking of the society, in the public of the people. Religion was no more "Buggy man," they made it manageable for the common person. Then they quietly led it, they knew people were going to demand to have their own schools not under the church and it came as the public school system. This is not saying that public education is wrong Muhammad the Prophet (PBUH) made education public in his lifetime, he obligated the people to educate the uneducated and it wasn't necessarily under an Imam or anyone. He said anybody who has knowledge or is literate help the next person become knowledgeable or literate. But this thing is done in steps, first public education then gradually take G-d out of the picture and the result is the present time secularism. The culture of secularism is this culture of death. It is not religious culture, it is not Christian culture. Christian culture was killed, ignored and what we have is the culture of secularism that does not acknowledge G-d. (Imam W Deen Mohammed Ramadan Sessions 11/15/2003)