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From where do we start? It might have been the most urgent question in the minds of homeland-loving Egyptians who cling to hope to get out from the bottleneck and embark on development and advancement horizons.
Events, sessions and discussions of the first National Youth Conference, held last October, were the starting point for a serious national dialogue.
It was important that education development session is the first in the conference. This reflects the importance this issue should have among dozens of important issues in the homeland agenda. Visions varied, but they all agreed the necessity to focus on education, as a significant inescapable pillar, if we want to build a real future for this homeland. A human is more significant than a building. An idea is more significant than the funding required to implement the idea. Man is more significant than facilities and roads.
On the day the conference was held, Journalist Azza Mostafa hosted me in her show Al Tahrir Saloon (Salat Al Tahrir), to discuss the most vital aspects and issues that drew the attention of conference attendees. From this media platform, I called for President Al-Sisi to adopt education as a national project for Egypt for the upcoming 5 years.
This call is because many countries that have preceded us like Malaysia did the same, i.e. gave education the priority even above other requirements of a citizen such as medical services, roads paving and developing vital services.
The economic boost in these countries took place when the type of education and training that a citizen receives there was improved. In Malaysia, the dreams came true after 10 years of focusing on education development as the country national objective and project. Thought must precede money. The experiments of many countries that suffered much more difficult economic conditions than ours now prove that thought brings money, not vice versa.
Thus, my call for the president was to launch the idea of “Education Development” and to make it “our national project”, for which we will sacrifice much to achieve it and reap its fruits. Then, all problems will be automatically solved, as right starts lead to right ends that we dream of and hope for.
I was pleased that the president ordered forming a group of education development exerts to study how we can start this mega project that deserves our top priority. I hope this group ends up with executive decisions. The studies have been made and locked in drawers for years. Dr. Hossam Badrawi is one of the expert minds in this subject. He spent dozens of years studying the experiments of successful countries and offering the essence of his thoughts. Why then don’t we seek the assistance of this unique mentality in developing a complete strategy to which the government and education-concerned NGOs contribute in executing? We can receive international grants from international organizations that support the countries that believe that education has the first priority.
Mr. President, on behalf of all that are loyal to this homeland and myself, I call for you once again to declare “Education Development” as a national project for Egypt. We promise to support you, no matter what it costs.
