FEMALE EDUCATION

Education is a light to which everybody has the equal right. Allah has orated both man and woman equally and has not drawn any distinction between them. So there should be no difference of opinion regarding imparting education to woman. So education should be universal.

A good mother can produce a good citizen. In order to have good citizens, female education is a must.

Female education is not a new thing in our country. Islam has encouraged education and training to woman folk. The prophet of Islam has made education compulsory for both man and woman. Once Napoleon said. Give me a good mother and I will give a you a good citizen. A good mother obviously means an educated mother. So it needs no telling the importance of female education.

Woman are now a days as important as men in society. They constitute nearly half of our total population. So there can be no denying the fact that too possesses equal rights and duties as men do. If they get opportunity, their genius, powers and capacities will bloom fully. No nation can make real progress keeping a full half of its population in the dark. Again without education woman can not be elevated. So an all out education should be imparted to the woman folk.

A mother exercises an undeniable influence in the formation of children’s character and in shaping their future destiny. The things that they learn at home take a firm root in them. And it goes without saying that this learning they get mostly forms their mother as they live under her direct supervision and constant care. If a mother fails to bring up her children properly, the mother is held responsible for this failure, not the child. If all the children become great, all the credit goes to the mothers. From this point of view an educated mother is an asset and it is more necessary to educate woman folk.

The role of woman in making a home an abode of peace and happiness is great. Not only as mothers but also as wives woman exert tremendous influence for good or for evil. If a wife is properly educated, she can manage household affairs efficiently. A good house wife is an asset to the entire family. She can keep accounts, control and guide servants and take initiative in many domestic matters. She can maintain the discipline of the house.

All necessary steps should be taken to encourage universal female education. It is happy news for us that our government has recently declared free and compulsory education for rural girls up to s.s.c. A country can not prosper if its woman is kept ignorant. We need good wives and good mother to make our nation great. Without a good system of female education, this will not be possible.