The Educational System In Islam

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Functions of Families

1.Familiesareinchargeofproducingandsatisfyingthechildrenwith
uprightmoodsforfulfillingtheirbiologicalandsocialrequisites.Famil-
ies that only produce children have no difference with animals.
2.Families are responsible fortraining the children to associate and
identify the values and customs of societies.
3.Familiesare responsible forproviding the childrenwith means of
personal composition in societies.
4.Familiesareresponsibleforsecuringsettlement,security,protection,
andsympathyto the childrenuntil they attainadulthood. Familiesare
themostproficientbodythatcanaffordsobecausetheyreceivetheearly
children., while any other social association cannot replace them –the
families- in this regard.
5.Familiesshouldtakeonthe greatportionof the children’sethical,
emotional,andreligious educationall overthe variousstagesof child-
hood. They arefully responsible forthe children’s religious education,
whetherthepoliticalregimes,suchasthecommunists,directlyorindir-
ectlyopposereligion,orneutralintheethicalandreligiousaffairs,such
asFrance.Thankstothefamilylife,theindividualsreceivethereligious
spiritsaswellastheotherfamilyemotionsthatprepareforassociatingin
societies and homes..
Childhood requires a good deal of care and means of mental and
physicalmaturity.Itis quiteunacceptableto hypothesizethat families’
oneandonlyroleisaffordingthefiscalsupports.Suchahypothesisneg-
lectsthevariousmentalfactors,suchasemotion,affection,security,and
tranquillity that are essential for composing the individuals. These
factors are important for the children’s mental maturity..
Psychologistsandeducationistsconfirmthatfamiliesplaythegreatest
roleinthe processofeducationandtheformationofpersonalities.This
significantrole becomes moremanifest when we takein consideration
thebiologicalprincipalwhichaffirmsthattheyoungerthehumanbeing,
themoreincreasingformationandobedience.Itisalsopossibletoapply
this principal to the mental powers in the variant levels of maturity.
Families are responsible for all of the effects that early children en-
counter, since they are the basic factor of the children’s lives and the
head source of their experts.Further, families are the genuine appear-
anceofthechildren’ssettlement.Fromthiscause,thechildren’spersonal
settlement and maturity are totally dependent upon the variant

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