Female Education in
Bangladesh
Education is a light to which everybody has the equal right. Education is the backbone of a nation. The prosperity
of a country mainly depends on the education of her population. About fifty
percent of the total population of a country is female. A country cannot expect
her prosperity avoiding this large part of population.
No
nation can progress without educated mothers. Allah has created both man and
woman equally. They are like the two sides of a coin. One is incomplete without
the other. It should be imparted equally to both men and women. Our religion
has also made education compulsory for all.
Every woman is a potential mother.
Mothers’ women play an important part in moulding the character of their
children. Education of a child greatly depends upon its mother.
An educated mother would able to bring up
better than an uneducated mother. A mother exercises an undeniable influence in the formation of
children’s character and in shaping their future destiny.
Lives of many great men of the world show that their
greatness was due to their mother’s influence.
The
role of women is making a home an abode of peace and happiness is great. A good
housewife 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.
In conjugal life a women can help her husband. For this
purpose a women has to be educated. An educated wife can take an active part
and help her husband in the greater filed of action.
In the past, our women folk were confined within the four
walls of home. Parents did not allow them to receive education.
An educated husband can never have free exchange of ideas
with an ignorant wife. Life would be dull and unhappy for them. Frequent
quarrels may result from such a lack of understanding. So female education is
essential from this point of view.
Parents also thought it waste of time and money to educate
their girls. They did not understand that if girl children were educated they
could be as competent as male children.
Early marriage, religious misinterpretation and the
narrowness of our outlook created bar to the path of education.
All necessary steps should be taken to encourage universal
female education. Education for girls up to degree level has been made free
with a monthly stipend. More schools and colleges for girls are being set up to
spread female education. If a mother is not educated, the child is not taken
care of properly. So, all of us should come forward to spread female education.
We need good wives and good mothers to make our nation
great.It are a matter of great delight that women have started to come out of
their cocoons. Being educated, they are advancing forward and joining a wide
range of professions. They have already been able to prove their abilities.
They are also becoming successful in establishing themselves
in every arena. They have become successful in exposing their talent in politics.
They are becoming self-dependent day by day.
There
are some people who are strongly opposed to the female education. They think
that women’s only duty is to do household affairs, rearing children and
ministering to the comforts of there male partners. For this reason they say it
is useless to educate women.
We
cannot think of the progress of our country avoiding our female. So all
necessary steps should be taken to encourage female education for the survival
of our country. It is a matter of joy that our government has already taken different
steps for the expansion of female education.