'File 53/89 II (D 169) Kuwait Education' [‎42r] (93/521)

Trainees at Bahrain Technical School.
In July of this year five boys completed their training
st the Bahrain Technical School and returned to Kuwait. 4
held Government and one K.O.O. scholarships. The K.O.C. will
not be able to take them all on as they are closing down.
They hove offered their own boy a job with ^ood prosnects
but he prefers a "Get-Rich-Quick" job with the Americans as
an internreter. All five hope to find jobs locally.
The K.0.3. originally intended to send 10 boys to Bah
rain this year bu-c have cut down the number to five as they
are now closing down. I discussed the matter with the ynnager
'"r. Scott but could not persuade him to send the full number
so that they would have the necessary trained men when they
open up again after the war.
The Bahrain Government could train 15 Kuwaitis at a
time. These students live under supervision in a Hostel which
is effeciently run. Recruits should be from classes 5 and 6
of the Primary Schools.
0 . Hi gher Education in Egypt .
During his visit to Egypt the Director of Education
arranged to send 10 Kuwait Secondary Schoolboys to Cairo at
the expense of the Egyptian Government -go continue their
studies. These boys have been chosen by the Committee from
the Mubarakieh School and. will leave for Egypt next week.
They are going unaccompanied. I suggest that the British
Council in Cairo be approached and asked to take an interest
in the welfare of the boys.
9. Night "choo l.
Night classes in Bookkeeping, Arabic and Religion are
held in a house in the bazaar. " T o charge is made, the teachers
bein^ paid by the Educational Denartment. About a dozen attend
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10. General .
^he number of highly educated men for whom jobs can be
found in Kuwait is, and will be for some years to come, very
limited. The addition of classes to the Secondary School is
therefore not desirable. Attention should be paid to the.
raising of the standard in the existing classes, '.'hen this
has been achieved those Kuwaitis who wish to continue their
studies may do so in Cairo, Damascus or to other centres
deemed suitable. # ,
ThroumbWohe schools the emphasis should ncc be.so.mucn
on the acquisition of factual knowledge but on bhe building
up an attitude to life. Such ideas as that.of manual labour
bein<- demradin 0 : or that in disaster intensive effort is
useless, because God is Great and the calamity is inevitable,
must eventually be eliminated. . ^ 4 - ^
Continual war should be waged against that altitude
which accents everything without ouestion, v/ithout consider
ing cause and effect. "Vie accept your cars, your radios ana
your electricity but we refuse to interest ourselves in the
struggles and calamities which made these things possible:
nor can we accent any responsibility lor the social resu s
of a process which makes such industries possible.
This the true purpose of History and Geography. Lan
guages, Science, General Knowledge; in.feci nearly ill su
jects can be taught with this aim in view.
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