why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?
from rulu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 06 Oct 13:12
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from rulu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 06 Oct 13:12
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54940947
Arabic, Religion and National education (civics) when you are allowed to take igcse geography well its accepted by universities in egypt so why not take that instead of social studies or civics
also what is even the point of civics (like the stuff that you take in civics in egypt) if you are an igcse student too
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I would assume that the primary language and civics are required in almost any country. They are essentially to being part of society.
Also not surprised that religion is mandatory in a ME country. It’s often still mandatory in very secular countries (It was for me, even though we just fooled around).
I don’t think there is anything unusual about Egypt here.
but the thing is with civics in egypt is that I don’t like the real reason about why you should know about egyptian stuff like I don’t think that will be that useful for me in the future so yeah whats the point of egyptian civics basically
The point of civics class isn’t to be useful to you, the individual. It’s to make you useful to civil society.
like well its egyptian civics well civics taught in egypt so idk if the curriculum that is from the egyptian government I think is that good tho
I get the feeling you’re planning to leave Egypt as soon as possible after school?
When immigrating to another country, you’re expected to learn the same details for that country, on your own time. Knowing the Egyptian version will provide a baseline making it easier to learn the material for the place you’re moving to.
It’s usually where you learn how your government and institutions work, how elections and voting works, how to pay taxes, etc.
While these things seem very boring when you’re young some of them are quite important later on.
You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian
It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way
who cares about egyptian culture and egypt that much anyways
That’s what the class is for. To make you care
I’m not saying it’ll work, but that’s why every country does this
Idk, I think Egypt is pretty cool.
I agree, we had the same mandatory courses in the netherlands, although religion was more like religious studies where we learned about all the different religions.