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At the invitation of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, and the United Nations Development Program, Dr. Hossam Badrawi participated today, Monday, September 2, 2024, at the Fairmont Hotel, in the Knowledge Youth Forum, as part of a discussion session entitled “The Educational Process between Opportunities and Challenges”, where Dr. Badrawi’s intervention included – in response to his question, are we ready to receive the data of the coming future, knowing that many do not have knowledge of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and does the vision need to be updated in light of the new data? – Egypt’s Vision 2030 was formulated in 2015/2016, which requires its development to meet today’s data, but some axes do not need development because they are main axes in any educational component, such as availability, quality, and non-excellence. They are fixed axes, as these axes require measuring population growth and estimating the number of classes we need – and by what standards, and providing teachers and preparing them properly, which requires a shift to decentralization so that each village and city assesses its needs and which axis represents an urgent necessity, whether it is availability or quality. As for the management of the educational process, it should be managed in a decentralized manner, and as Dr. Badrawi previously said, the application of decentralization in Egypt should start with education and health. As for digital and artificial intelligence, change is happening in them at an accelerated rate, so we should not remain recipients of the development that is happening, but we must find a way to be participants as well, and this matter also requires us to be armed with a set of values that make us users of this progress in the correct and sound framework, and in order to focus such values in the conscience of our children, this will not come through indoctrination, but by teaching them how to educate themselves on their own, so what we want to burden in the conscience of our students and children is the ability to change and the flexibility necessary to adapt to the data of the future, and this matter is not impossible, especially in light of the amazing speed and ease of obtaining information. As for the axis of creating conscience, this will not happen without coexistence. There must be sports, theatrical and artistic competitions in all their forms and types. This coexistence will not happen away from the teacher, “the level of education in any nation does not rise above the level of its teachers.” Dr. Badrawi also pointed out that the cycle of development is now happening at an accelerated pace and is not like before, it needs hundreds of years. A few years are enough to see a new development that changes our data. Dr. Tarek Shawky also commented, confirming Dr. Badrawi’s words that what builds conscience are arts and sports, but we limit parents who put their children under great academic pressure in order to obtain high grades. The truth is that adhering to this method will not achieve for our children what we aspire to in the future. Dr. Badrawi then added – in response to his question about the divisions of age groups and how do we take them into account during the educational stages? – The World Health Organization confirmed that the age of youth today has reached 65 years, and he explained that the age of youth in Egypt starts at the age of 12 according to the knowledge stock that these students have that was very difficult to form in the past, then from 18 to 23 years it enters a new framework of education, then from the age of 23 to 35 years the desires of youth will change to a desire to get a job and start a family… etc., and therefore our vision of youth must change at every stage. Then Dr. Badrawi explained that there is a difference between digital and artificial intelligence, digital gives results according to the inputs, while artificial intelligence produces outputs that far exceed the size of the inputs, it innovates, adds and suggests as well, which will later help in the advancement of human thought, so will we participate to be developers of this data or just spectators? Dr. Badrawi stressed that a student stays in educational institutions for about 18 years, and if that period produces a bad or extremist person, then this is the problem of the educational institution and not the student. Therefore, we find that the late writer Dr. Taha Hussein defined the illiteracy that needs to be eradicated as not only illiteracy of reading and writing, but illiteracy of reading, writing and understanding. Only those who possess the correct culture and knowledge can build and lead the nation, and those who possess values will not be corrupted. Here, Dr. Badrawi stressed the necessity of instilling a set of agreed-upon values in the conscience of students, especially in light of modern capabilities that, if misused, cause disasters. The discussion panel was attended by: –
Dr. Tarek Shawky, former Minister of Education
Professor Abdullah Armesh, President of the Cairo University Student Union
Professor Maged Harby, General Manager of Nahdet Misr Company
It is worth noting that Dr. Ashraf Sobhi, Minister of Youth and Sports, inaugurated the second session of the Knowledge Youth Forum, which is implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in cooperation with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation and the United Nations Development Program, during the days (2, 3) of September, under the slogan “Arab Youth – Opportunities and Challenges of the Future”, which comes within the framework of the Presidential Initiative for Human Development (A New Beginning for Building the Human Being).
The opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Ahmed Fouad Hanno, Minister of Culture, Jamal bin Huwaireb, Executive Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, Alessandro Fracassetti, Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program – Egypt Office, Dr. Hani Turki, Director of the Global Knowledge Project at the United Nations Development Program, and a group of public figures and media professionals.
