Public higher education in Yemen..to where?

Abstract

The modern educational system derived its principles and methods from the West, and the ruler Muhammad Ali - in Egypt was the first to introduce this system, although most of his schools at that time had taken on the civil character. It is unfortunate that with these beginnings, those in charge of them ignored the importance of linking them to our religious and cultural heritage, and in some cases even these schools took the principle of rejecting it, which led to negative reactions and led to the division of the educational system in many Arab countries into a system of religious and general education, which created a schizophrenia in personality The Arab person and his ability to accept the new while preserving the East of his heritage and history.
It is unfortunate that some social revolutions also made the same mistake and cared more about preserving the revolution or rather the control of the revolutionaries than their interest in their goals of moving society from the reality of oppression and underdevelopment to a liberated society that is moving towards future horizons.
These historical developments imposed a new role for the state in the education system, which began with the abolition of private education or freezing it as it is, and ended with the state shouldering the management of the educational system and the responsibility for defining the destination, goals, and strategy of education, and working to consolidate the ideology of the system and governance, which led to the educational curriculum sometimes contradicting the people’s belief and the spirit of creativity. In it, the abolition of personal freedom in learning (subject, curriculum, etc.) has embodied dictatorship in the educational system. The role of the state, which is supposed to be supervisory, has in fact turned into domination by it or the political system over the educational system, based on the principle that the state is more understanding of the needs of the citizen and society and is the most capable of determining what the citizen learns, while the fact of the matter is that the state applied the concept of the totalitarian system in Governance to the educational system and imposed curricula and educational curricula that are compatible with its ideology to turn the citizen into a dough that shapes it as it wants and deepens its dependence on the state as the donor of the means of life. Calculate his freedom, aspirations and ability.
In both cases, the citizen became a victim of the domination of one of the groups, either a social class or an authority in governance. If the goal of the first category is to subjugate society and exploit its capabilities to get rich, then the goal of the second category is to employ society and harness it to protect the system and achieve any of its ideologies that may not represent the desire of the citizen, but are in many ways. Sometimes it may conflict with his beliefs and cultural heritage.